Now I have a separate instance running, but integrated with my WP installation.

I've tried completely removing by bbPress install and re-doing it, to no avail.

And I can't even find a file called "wp_usermeta" in my WordPress database.

Any suggestions?

thanks

Strange enough, when I re-edited the row and put "keymaster" back in the meta_value, the admin dashboard started letting me in.

It seems like a file rights issue of some sort, but I did not have an .htaccess file anywhere near the installation path.

I've done some limited testing and this seems to work.

In functions.bb-template.php I created the following function:

function hackfixurl ($url){
$url= str_replace("http://", "", $url);
$url= str_replace($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"], "", $url);
return $url;
}

Then, on line 1590 of the same file, wrap the url with the new function like:

$url = bb_get_uri('bb-login.php', array('re' => hackfixurl($url)), BB_URI_CONTEXT_A_HREF + BB_URI_CONTEXT_BB_USER_FORMS);

Regards--

I solved this issue for myself by adding a row into my wp_usermeta tablein my wordpress database, and adding this :

INSERT INTO database.wp_usermeta (
umeta_id ,
user_id ,
meta_key ,
meta_value
)
VALUES (
NULL , '1', 'bbpcapabilities', 'a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;}'
);

I'm setting up a µ site that will be using bbPress on the main blog. Since I don't want to usurp *.domain.tld/forums/ on every blog, I set up bbPress under its own subdomain.

Works fine using either an Apache VirtualHost or the above mod_rewrite method, right up until I try to load µ from within bbpress (there are a LOT of functions I would like to use without rewriting them, so this is absolutely necessary). Once I load wp-config in bbPress, trying to access the forums 302 redirects me back to blog. Looks like I can have my subdomain, or my integration, but I can't have both at the same time.

Has anybody gotten this to work?

Still troubleshooting.

The .htaccess method worked awesomely on the install, but dies for me on the forum itself. Can't get to anything but the index.php. No styles load, and I can't access things like the CSS files directly either.

Suggestions? I tried removing the rewriting rules all together because I haven't setup my permalinks yet, and still nothing there either.

Hmmm...

To clarify for anyone else reading this, you'll want to put the above .htaccess code in your WordPress .htaccess file, because that's where the bbPress requests will still be hitting. You can remove the .htaccess file in your bbPress directory using this method.

Note, for people who cannot get this to work on a 1&1 server, you need to put this at the top of your .htaccess file:

Options -MultiViews

The Options +MultiViews does not work (IME) at 1&1, so in addition to creating the rewrite rules manually as in the FAQ, you need to DISABLE MultiViews to make this work. Worked for me.

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/no-htaccess-file-for-pretty-urls

Are these officially provided anywhere? I found some in a thread from a couple years ago (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/permalinks-1) but they don't seem to work. What exactly do I need to do to make my permalinks work?

RewriteBase
  from
RewriteBase /
  to
RewriteBase /forum/

where forum is the name of your subfolder.

Options -MultiViews

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^pm/?(.*)$ /my-plugins/bbpm/index.php? [L]
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /forum.php?id= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/?$ / [R=302,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/?$ /topic.php?id= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/?$ / [R=302,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /tags.php?tag=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ /tags.php?tag= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /tags.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=&tab= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=&tab=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?id= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/?$ /profile.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /view.php?view=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ /view.php?view= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/?$ /rss.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ /rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?forum= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /rss.php?forum=&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?topic= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?tag= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /rss.php?tag=&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?profile= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/view/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?view= [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I have no idea what any of it does!

I had this a few weeks ago with another forum, and setting the URI in the DB fixed it. I may just drop the DB and run the installer to sort it out, as there's nothing much there yet anyway.

As for the word "slugs", I'm pretty sure it comes from typesetting. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(typesetting)

I can see that when permalinks are set to None, the forum.php file is fed an ID and then grabs the topic(s). When I originally set up one of the forums I set the permalinks to Name based (pretty..?) and all worked fine. However, I moved the forum into a sub-folder, and changed the URI in the topicmeta DB table, so the forum index page appears in the browser. But, while I can navigate fine with permalinks set to None (ie., topics passed by number), it refuses to work when set to Name.

I realised this might be the slugs in the DB, and so tried removing one and switching permalinks off/on. It fails to find the topic page. If I set permalinks back to None, it works ok.

Am I right in assuming it's using the slugs for topic navigation? If so, is there a way of rebuilding the slugs so that they work within the new sub-folder? (And incidentally, why are they called 'slugs'..?)