http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress Support Forums Tag: 500 en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:48:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-not-visible-but-installed-successfully#post-22790 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:55:02 +0000 chrishajer 22790@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>1. I don't believe those versions will integrate. 2.5 goes with 0.9.0* and 2.6+ goes with the 1.0 alpha versions.</p> <p>2. Where to find the logs depends on your host. Is there access to logs from your hosts control panel?</p> <p>If you're not a techie, adding the code for custom error reporting might be a bit over your pay grade, so I won't post that. Right now though, if you are not seeing the forum, and it's giving a 500 Server Error, you need to see what that error is to help resolve this.</p> <p><code><br /> [~] $ curl -I <a href="http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/bbpress/" rel="nofollow">http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/bbpress/</a></p> <p>HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error<br /> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:54:12 GMT<br /> Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635<br /> Accept-Ranges: bytes<br /> Connection: close<br /> Content-Type: text/html<br /> </code> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-not-visible-but-installed-successfully#post-22774 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:54:01 +0000 aboutonlinetips 22774@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Chrishajer,</p> <p>I am using following versions-<br /> WordPress version 2.6.1<br /> bbpress-0.9.0.3</p> <p>Where to find PHP error Logs? I tried but unable to find it. I am not a techie. I would appreciate if you can sort out the issue.</p> <p>rgds<br /> Chris </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-not-visible-but-installed-successfully#post-22755 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:47:38 +0000 chrishajer 22755@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>What version did you install?</p> <p>I would not reinstall since that's no magic bullet. Do you have access to PHP error logs? A blank screen indicating a 500 Server Error should be logged somewhere. It's possible your server has a PHP function that's been disabled, but is required by bbPress. In that case, reinstalling will not change a thing.</p> <p>I would try to find an error log, or if that does not exist, turn on some custom error reporting. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-not-visible-but-installed-successfully#post-22753 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:24:04 +0000 aboutonlinetips 22753@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>chrishajer</p> <p>Before installing the forum I created one new mySQL DB and one user instead of using already existing mySQL DB. Apart from this I have not made any other change to any other file.</p> <p>If you suggest to repeat the steps I can re-install it again.</p> <p>Please suggest the steps to completely uninstall bbpress for re-installation.</p> <p>Regards<br /> Chris </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-not-visible-but-installed-successfully#post-22718 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:13:17 +0000 chrishajer 22718@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>You should check all the PHP files for syntax errors. Especially any file you might have modified. Did you modify a theme, install any plugins, modify the bb-config.php?</p> <p>The files from bbPress are probably OK, assuming they were uploaded properly, so check anything you modified or edited. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-not-visible-but-installed-successfully#post-22707 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:52:30 +0000 aboutonlinetips 22707@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I renamed the folder to forum. Prviously it was bbpress.</p> <p>@Chrishjer- Which file should I check for syntax error. Please help </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-not-visible-but-installed-successfully#post-22701 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:33:19 +0000 chrishajer 22701@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>This page gives a 500 Server Error:<br /> <a href="http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/bbpress/" rel="nofollow">http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/bbpress/</a></p> <p>That means there's probably a syntax error in one of the files needed for the front page. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-not-visible-but-installed-successfully#post-22685 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:16:08 +0000 Ipstenu 22685@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>When you installed bbpress, what folder did you put all the files in? Your server's acting like nothing was uploaded to 'forum' </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-not-visible-but-installed-successfully#post-22675 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:19:46 +0000 aboutonlinetips 22675@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I tried installing bbpress forum on my blog. I successfully installed it and even got a mail from bbpress team.</p> <p>Your new bbPress site has been successfully set up at:</p> <p><a href="http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/forum/" rel="nofollow">http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/forum/</a></p> <p>You can log in to the key master account with the following information:</p> <p>Username: aboutonlinetips<br /> Password: </p> <p>We hope you enjoy your new forums. Thanks!</p> <p>--The bbPress Team<br /> <a href="http://bbpress.org/" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/</a></p> <p>When I visited the url - Nothing like Forum comes.</p> <p>Please help me out guys.</p> <p>Regards<br /> Chris Martin </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/can-not-delete-example-forum-etc#post-19900 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:52:03 +0000 Epiphone 19900@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Disregard this thread, as I have chose to downgrade to WP 2.5.1 and Install bbPress 0.9.2 and I have managed intergrate my theme and the database with no problems. Any errors occuring before hand have been fixed.</p> <p>Sorry 1.0 your just not ready for me yet. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/can-not-delete-example-forum-etc#post-19898 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:32:56 +0000 Epiphone 19898@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>It also happens the default as well. I've deactivated all plugins still no form.</p> <p>Just to clear up. I don't get a blank screen. I mean when I click new topic it will bring me to the page with the heading of create new topic, but below it will be no form of any kind </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/can-not-delete-example-forum-etc#post-19897 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:29:42 +0000 chrishajer 19897@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Does the problem happen with the default theme? Chances are there's a problem in one of your template files.</p> <p>Or, possibly a plugin issue. Turn off plugins until your forum works again.</p> <p>If you have access to error logs, you can look in there and see exactly what's causing the problem. A blank screen is normally a 500 Internal Server Error. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/can-not-delete-example-forum-etc#post-19894 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:50:23 +0000 Epiphone 19894@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I have also noticed that when I click the create new topic (This is actually on the forum) There is no form just a blank white space. Here browse around on it if you like:</p> <p><a href="http://www.james-blogs.com/forum" rel="nofollow">http://www.james-blogs.com/forum</a></p> <p>What could be the causes of this? Am I missing a certain theme file? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yikes-my-wordpress-site-has-disappeared-while-integrating-with-bbpress#post-19544 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:03:15 +0000 keress 19544@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>You were right about the templates. I used Dreamhost's webftp client to move my wordpress site. It tells you to create the folder first. I took that to mean the main folders, and didn't create all the many subfolders. I'm assuming that had something to do with why our template folder was not quite there. I could see it in webftp, but my ftpclient on my computer wasn't showing it. Once I'd ftp'd all the files back, the site reappeared. </p> <p>Dreamhost is saying that can't happen, but that's what I experienced.</p> <p>Thanks for the help. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/regarding-trunk-releases-and-installation#post-19529 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:25:51 +0000 chrishajer 19529@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Very good. I created my config by hand, and always have since I first started using bbPress. Not sure why that didn't work for you the first time around. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/regarding-trunk-releases-and-installation#post-19526 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:21:21 +0000 Cabal79 19526@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thank you so much for going the extra mile and making a video, that was awesome. </p> <p>I just leeched the latest Trunk and tried to let it create the bb-config on it's own and now it worked, still can't find the earlier syntax problem but it's running now. </p> <p>Thank again!<br /> Rob </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/regarding-trunk-releases-and-installation#post-19502 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:23:03 +0000 sambauers 19502@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Heh, it almost takes video proof for people to believe that it works sometimes.</p> <p>There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with that bb-config, but you should just let the installer create it for you.</p> <p>BackPress is included with bbPress when you grab it via SVN or in the 1.0-Alpha packages. SO there is no need to get it separately. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/regarding-trunk-releases-and-installation#post-19482 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:56:35 +0000 chrishajer 19482@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>It's hard to tell if there's an error in an edited bb-config.php. I have seen where the secret keys are not properly escaped, and that creates a PHP problem. As you've posted it (edited) it works fine.</p> <p>I just did an svn checkout of r1736 and that included backpress r153, which is what's available at the URL you posted.</p> <p>Mine installed cleanly. I did not integrate with WordPress. You can see a one minute video of the installation here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/1736/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/1736/</a></p> <p>I suspect a problem with the secret keys in the bb-config.php. Or some other syntax problem with the bb-config.php. If you have a command line with php you can run </p> <p><code>php -l bb-config.php</code> </p> <p>to check that file for syntax errors. That's "php dash el", l for <strong>L</strong>int. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/regarding-trunk-releases-and-installation#post-19481 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:15:48 +0000 Cabal79 19481@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Well I used yesterdays Trunk Release (1736) and the Backpress folder from here: <a href="http://svn.automattic.com/backpress/trunk/includes/" rel="nofollow">http://svn.automattic.com/backpress/trunk/includes/</a><br /> Is there anything else I'd have to add to the Trunk that I possibly missed?</p> <p>I don't really think that the bb-config syntax is wrong because it's working with the Alpha just fine.<br /> Anyways, the code for what it's worse:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php // ** MySQL settings ** // define(&#39;BBDB_NAME&#39;, &#39;xxxxx&#39;); // The name of the database define(&#39;BBDB_USER&#39;, &#39;xxxxx&#39;); // Your MySQL username define(&#39;BBDB_PASSWORD&#39;, &#39;xxxxx&#39;); // ...and password define(&#39;BBDB_HOST&#39;, &#39;localhost&#39;); // 99% chance you won&#39;t need to change these last few define(&#39;BBDB_CHARSET&#39;, &#39;utf8&#39;); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old bb-config.php does define(&#39;BBDB_COLLATE&#39;, &#39;&#39;); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them // If you are installing for the first time, leave them here // Change each KEY to a different unique phrase. You won&#39;t have to remember the phrases later, // so make them long and complicated. You can visit <a href="https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm</a> // to get phrases generated for you, or just make something up. Each key should have a different phrase. // If you are integrating logins with WordPress, you will need to match each key to // the value of their equivalent keys in the WordPress file wp-config.php define(&#39;BB_AUTH_KEY&#39;, &#39;xxxxx&#39;); // Change this to a unique phrase. define(&#39;BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY&#39;, &#39;xxxxx&#39;); // Change this to a unique phrase. define(&#39;BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY&#39;, &#39;xxxxx&#39;); // Change this to a unique phrase. // If you are running multiple bbPress installations in a single database, // you will probably want to change this. $bb_table_prefix = &#39;bb_&#39;; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please! // Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the // chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages. // For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BB_LANG to &#39;de&#39; // to enable German language support. define(&#39;BB_LANG&#39;, &#39;&#39;); ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>Thanks for helping out!</p> <p>Rob </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yikes-my-wordpress-site-has-disappeared-while-integrating-with-bbpress#post-19476 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:50:36 +0000 chrishajer 19476@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Do you have access to server logs? If you're getting a blank screen, it's probably a 500 Internal Server Error. Maybe there's a problem with one of your WordPress templates. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/regarding-trunk-releases-and-installation#post-19475 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:49:11 +0000 chrishajer 19475@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>If it's blanking out, you probably have a syntax problem with your bb-config.php. The installer is supposed to be working still with trunk. What release did you grab, just to be sure this is true?</p> <p>Do you have access to error logs? You probably have a 500 Internal Server Error being logged. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yikes-my-wordpress-site-has-disappeared-while-integrating-with-bbpress#post-19468 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:15:13 +0000 keress 19468@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>No, I can access the admin of the blog, and I can access the forum. But the blog pages/posts all comes up as a blank screen. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/regarding-trunk-releases-and-installation#post-19465 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:03:05 +0000 Cabal79 19465@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hello there.<br /> I'm eager to try out some of Sam's Trunk Releases on my site, but I keep running into installation issues. Since I'm new to these kind of test releases, it might just be a simple misunderstanding on my part though.<br /> In a nutshell, what I did is download the latest trunk, add a backpress release and try to install as usual.<br /> Well, after changing bb-config-sample.php into bb-config.php in step 1 the installer will just blank out on the following steps. </p> <p>Are these Releases not supposed to support the installer at this point?</p> <p>Thanks<br /> Rob </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yikes-my-wordpress-site-has-disappeared-while-integrating-with-bbpress#post-19462 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:41:37 +0000 chrishajer 19462@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>So, you can access the forum and the blog? Is everything back to normal? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yikes-my-wordpress-site-has-disappeared-while-integrating-with-bbpress#post-19458 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:24:17 +0000 keress 19458@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Another note, the Internal Server Error yesterday was fixed by correcting the .htaccess file. </p> <p>At present it reads:</p> <pre><code># BEGIN WordPress &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt; RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] &lt;/IfModule&gt; # END WordPress</code></pre> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yikes-my-wordpress-site-has-disappeared-while-integrating-with-bbpress#post-19457 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:03:21 +0000 keress 19457@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Oh wow, I am able to get into my wordpress admin. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yikes-my-wordpress-site-has-disappeared-while-integrating-with-bbpress#post-19456 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:57:35 +0000 keress 19456@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Yes, wp-config.php is on the root, bb-config.php is off the root in a /bbpress folder. </p> <p>Other than opening the wp.config.php to check on secret keys and all that, I haven't done anything with it. </p> <p>Yesterday, I did move the wordpress install to the root. I had worked out all the kinks though, and everything was working well. I did have an Internal Server Error for awhile though, but that was fixed. It was discussed here, <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/205960?replies=13#post-862375" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/support/topic/205960?replies=13#post-862375</a></p> <p>I looked at the error.log. I'm assuming it notes military time. There were some files not found this morning as I'd expect. Nothing from this afternoon.</p> <p>Thanks for the speedy reply. I appreciate it. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yikes-my-wordpress-site-has-disappeared-while-integrating-with-bbpress#post-19455 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:16:58 +0000 chrishajer 19455@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>What does your directory structure look like? Where did you put bbPress, and where is WordPress? Does it look like this:</p> <p>/var/www/htdocs/wordpress/wp-config.php<br /> /var/www/htdocs/wordpress/bbpress/bb-config.php</p> <p>Did you modify the wp-config.php file at all? Do you have access to error logs? A blank screen is likely a 500 Internal Server Error.</p> <p>If you can't see the sites, you have bigger problems than just integrated logins. You should be able to view the WordPress site and the bbPress forum without logging in. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yikes-my-wordpress-site-has-disappeared-while-integrating-with-bbpress#post-19454 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:02:44 +0000 keress 19454@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I was just about finished integrating bbpress with our wordpress installation. I had not called up the wordpress site during most of this process. When I did try to call it up, a white screen came up, no error messages, nothing, just white. </p> <p>It had just been working fine before I began installing bbpress, but I had just gotten locked out of login (again) and followed these instructions: "To fix bbpress, you need phpmyadmin or a similar tool. Login, go to your bbpress database. Not certain what it's like on 0.9, but you probably need to go to the bb_topicmeta table and perform a search (or browse through) to find a record where the meta_key is wp_table_prefix. Try deleting that record. Without that setting I think bb would look for its own users again. " <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/doing-integration-cant-login-in-bbpress" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/doing-integration-cant-login-in-bbpress</a></p> <p>Not sure if that's what broke the wordpress installation. What should I try? Should I go back into phpMyAdmin and try to add that record back in? Should I just uninstall bbpress and start over again? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/blank-screen#post-18761 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:40:24 +0000 gimecoffee 18761@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I just finished tracking down a similar problem (Blank screen on new install) for a colleague. I think chrishajer may be on to your problem with the key but not all linux installs allow php command lines and my httpd access and error logs gave no useful info.</p> <p>My colleague had copied the WP secret BUT not the whole thing. He stopped on an escape string ('\') which made php think the last single quote in the definition syntax was part of the key. This made the entire rest of the file part of the text in the definition instead of letting the php interpreter at it. For example:<br /> define('BB_SECRET_KEY', 'Ts[5wi;{?2Sp%\"\');<br /> should have been<br /> define('BB_SECRET_KEY', 'Ts[5wi;{?2Sp%\"\'} 4N_zAd6');</p> <p>You can see in the first example that the escape character "\" is what breaks the rest of the file for php. If your WP key is ending with "\" (right before the single quote) then I would try deleting that character in both places and see if that does the trick.</p> <p>Happy hunting<br /> Rois </p>