http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Tag: installation en Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:27:48 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to#post-17035 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:54:51 +0000 chrishajer 17035@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>You can contact me off list if you would like assistance setting up bbPress on your server. Find my contact details on the website linked to my profile. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to#post-17028 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:31:51 +0000 jldean 17028@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>You need to create a MySQL database, and then set that in the bb-config file, under MySQL settings. It will need to know the username for your database too. </p> <p>If you're unclear about setting up a MySQL database on your server, you might need to get bbpress installed for you... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to#post-17020 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:27:42 +0000 thenhbushman 17020@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>is there a how-to on installation, or do i have to stop each time i encounter something and do a search in the forum? i'd like to know, for example, what database to use (for starters). a step-by-step would be a big help.</p> <p>thanks. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/intended-url#post-16857 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:32:49 +0000 chrishajer 16857@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>What domain is it at, and what directory did you put it in?</p> <p>If your site is example.com and you made a directory called bbpress, then the intended URL is probably:</p> <p><code><a href="http://www.example.com/bbpress/" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/bbpress/</a></code></p> <p>I thought the installer guessed and prefilled that anyway? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/intended-url#post-16856 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:23:32 +0000 daromalofu 16856@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I am busy to download an forum on my site but I don't know what they mean with intended URL in the installation directions. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/install-problems#post-16592 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:42:33 +0000 sambauers 16592@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>What version of bbPress?</p> <p>Trunk is a bit broken.</p> <p>The last release (0.9.0.2) should be fine. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/install-problems#post-16582 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:49:03 +0000 Bonesy 16582@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I just submitted a support ticket to my hosting company to see if they are having problems. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/install-problems#post-16581 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:46:18 +0000 Bonesy 16581@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I have installed everything just fine. But when I go to the forum it wants to go to the install setup every time. I deleted the install.php file and then tried going there, and it acts like I don't even have the forum set up or anything! Do I have to change permissions? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-do-i-upload-the-files#post-16518 Fri, 30 May 2008 05:05:41 +0000 chrishajer 16518@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Put all the bbPress files that are in the archive you downloaded into a folder in your webspace. If your website is at <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/</a> and the files on the server are at /var/www/vhosts/yourname/ and you want your forums at <a href="http://www.example.com/forums/," rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/forums/,</a> just create a directory called <code>/var/www/vhosts/yourname/forums</code> in your webspace and upload the files there.</p> <p>Put all the bbpress files into one folder though, exactly how they came out of the archive. By default, when you unzip the files, they are in a folder called bbpress. You can use that or rename that to <code>forums</code>, then just upload the whole thing to your webspace. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-do-i-upload-the-files#post-16515 Thu, 29 May 2008 22:57:14 +0000 dsnow77 16515@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Okay i must be retarded but the install page does not say where i am supposed to upload the install files... help! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support#post-16385 Thu, 22 May 2008 06:54:47 +0000 sambauers 16385@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>@marians</p> <p>You've identified another reason that I had forgotten about. URL customisation that you are talking about is close to impossible under MultiViews.</p> <p>Based on all these comments I think we will be dropping it. Thanks for the input everyone. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support#post-16370 Wed, 21 May 2008 10:58:49 +0000 marians 16370@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>On Multiviews: Never heard of it until I first installed bbPress. If mof_rewrite would work out of the box (i.e.: if bbPress would create the file or dump the necessary content) I wouldn't need MultiViews.</p> <p>Here is one aspect I'd like to through in: URL Customization/Localization.</p> <p>When localizing URLs, it's very easy to do this via editing of mod_rewrite rules. All my bbPress installations are in german language, thus I want german URLs.</p> <p>When changing the wording in URLs, e.g. from "forum" to "board" or "topic" to "idea" etc., same thing - just edit the rewrite rules.</p> <p>How easy would it be to customize URLs with MultiViews in effect? Without having looked into the implementation, I would guess that it requires code changes.</p> <p>If URL customization is easier in mod_rewrite, please drop MultiViews. Otherwise, please document how URL customization can be done using MultiViews. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-get-bbpress-to-install#post-16348 Tue, 20 May 2008 18:21:18 +0000 elorgwhee 16348@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I received a very similar error (something about the database and needing to try to reinstall) when trying a fresh install and integrating wordpress at the same time. I retried it a few times - each time it would fail, and if I tried to access the forum location it would bring me to the installation script again.</p> <p>Eventually I went through the installation without integrating wordpress and I that's what ultimately worked. I then went through the wordpress integration after the install.</p> <p>Latest wordpress &#38; bbpress, on Linux, PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 4.1.22. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support#post-16344 Tue, 20 May 2008 07:25:29 +0000 bobbyh 16344@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I too vote to drop multiviews. However, if enough people depend on this, could permalinks be made pluggable so that a multiviews plugin could be written? If that's too much work, that's OK with me, just suggesting it as a compromise solution... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/require_once-problems#post-16341 Tue, 20 May 2008 02:02:40 +0000 John Smith 16341@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi, sambauers</p> <p>The code work fine for me , thanks. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support#post-16330 Mon, 19 May 2008 20:39:06 +0000 finalwebsites 16330@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I like multiviews, use it for WP too, write access to the .htaccess file will be a problem for many forums on shared hosting accounts (because a lot of them are not secure) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-get-bbpress-to-install#post-16304 Sun, 18 May 2008 15:11:37 +0000 chrishajer 16304@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Please try contacting me again. I'm pretty much around all the time. Maybe it's a problem with the timezone difference. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-get-bbpress-to-install#post-16302 Sun, 18 May 2008 08:49:49 +0000 AntonioP 16302@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Here let me see if I can try to explain this a little bit better</p> <p>Here goes...I ran the installer up to this point...</p> <p>Step 3 - Site settings</p> <p>» Your site settings have been saved and we are now ready to complete the installation. So what are you waiting for?</p> <p>and I got this error after I try to proceed to step 4</p> <p>"Internal Server Error</p> <p>The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request."</p> <p>Then I went back one page and tried to complete step 3 and I got this...</p> <p>"Step 3 - Site settings</p> <p>« completed<br /> Installation failed!</p> <p>! The database failed to install. You may need to replace bbPress with a fresh copy and start again. "</p> <p>These are the errors that I've gotten from the error log.<br /> [Sun May 18 01:12:00 2008] [error] [client 66.8.172.162] php-script: line 4: 4269 Segmentation fault /usr/bin/php-cgi, referer: <a href="http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3" rel="nofollow">http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3</a><br /> [Sun May 18 01:12:00 2008] [error] [client 66.8.172.162] Premature end of script headers: php-script, referer: <a href="http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3" rel="nofollow">http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3</a></p> <p>not sure what to do??? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-get-bbpress-to-install#post-16300 Sun, 18 May 2008 07:37:29 +0000 AntonioP 16300@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I still can't get bbpress to install. I tried to contact chrishajer off list, but I havn't gotten a response.</p> <p>"Please ask the creator of this script for further assistance as Doteasy does not provide web design or development services.</p> <p>Here is the site error log for today.</p> <p>[Mon May 05 08:19:23 2008] [error] [client 65.61.193.36] php-script: line 4: 22269 Segmentation fault /usr/bin/php-cgi, referer: <a href="http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3" rel="nofollow">http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3</a><br /> [Mon May 05 08:19:23 2008] [error] [client 65.61.193.36] Premature end of script headers: php-script, referer: <a href="http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3" rel="nofollow">http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3</a>" </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/rewriting#post-16126 Sun, 11 May 2008 02:54:49 +0000 haagendazs1 16126@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>mrhoratio,</p> <p>Thanks a lot for the input. Sucks that it isn't working out for a lot of people. I guess I'll just live with it (for now?), and patiently wait for something out there. :) Thanks again </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/rewriting#post-16117 Sat, 10 May 2008 08:46:33 +0000 mrhoratio 16117@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hey I'm been trying to get this to work also. And have posted to some other similar threads here, but there haven't gotta a solution working. </p> <p>Here's what I've learned.</p> <p>1. From what I gathered, the problem is with how bbPress redirects its pages. Even if you have the proper mod_rewrite rules, bbPress will automatically redirect the rewritten URL to the full URL that it thinks the page is supposed to have. This basically makes custom mod_rewrite useless. </p> <p>2. You can prevent bbPress from redirecting by fooling bbPress into thinking it should have a different URL than its supposed to. You can do this by modifying the get_forum_link, get_topic_link, get_user_profile link, etc. functions in the template-functions.php file. The idea is to use pattern matching to strip out the base directory from the URL. </p> <pre><code>function get_user_profile_link( $id = 0, $page = 1 ) { $user = bb_get_user( bb_get_user_id( $id ) ); $rewrite = bb_get_option( &#39;mod_rewrite&#39; ); if ( $rewrite ) { if ( $rewrite === &#39;slugs&#39; ) { $column = &#39;user_nicename&#39;; } else { $column = &#39;ID&#39;; } $r = bb_get_option(&#39;uri&#39;) . &quot;profile/&quot; . $user-&gt;$column . ( 1 &lt; $page ? &quot;/page/$page&quot; : &#39;&#39; ); } else { $r = bb_get_option(&#39;uri&#39;) . &quot;profile.php?id=$user-&gt;ID&quot; . ( 1 &lt; $page ? &quot;&#38;page=$page&quot; : &#39;&#39; ); } $r = str_replace(&#39;forums/profile/&#39; . $user-&gt;$column , &quot;profile/&quot; . $user-&gt;$column, $r); return apply_filters( &#39;get_user_profile_link&#39;, $r, $user-&gt;ID ); }</code></pre> <p>3. If you strip out the base directory from the URL however, it makes bbPress think you're no longer logged in, and you can't log in. I still can't figure out a fix yet.</p> <p>Seems like a lot of people are having issues with mod_rewrite in bbPress. Hopefully the next update will resolve some of these issues. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/rewriting#post-16115 Sat, 10 May 2008 08:27:08 +0000 haagendazs1 16115@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I've been trying to get this but I don't really know what would allow this as I'm relatively new to websites, and I don't know if this is even possible. Does anyone who knows what I'm talking about above know if this is possible for bbPress right now? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support#post-16070 Thu, 08 May 2008 21:52:50 +0000 bryan868 16070@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Definitely drop MultiViews </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support#post-16050 Thu, 08 May 2008 15:46:53 +0000 hmcnally 16050@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>For those using a 1and1.com hosting package, try adding..</p> <pre><code>Options -MultiViews</code></pre> <p>to the top of the .htaccess file, and append the mod_rewrite stuff after it. I guess with their shared serving packages, the MultiViews just goes nutty (apparently it's enabled, though), and needs to be turned off before using mod_rewrite. They actually document this behavior at <a href="http://faq.1and1.com/dedicated_servers/managed_server/3.html" rel="nofollow">http://faq.1and1.com/dedicated_servers/managed_server/3.html</a></p> <p>I guess this means I'm in favor of dropping MultiViews, though not fervently. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-get-bbpress-to-install#post-16004 Tue, 06 May 2008 22:09:04 +0000 chrishajer 16004@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I can help if you contact me off list. Find contact details on the site linked to my profile. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-get-bbpress-to-install#post-16003 Tue, 06 May 2008 17:48:37 +0000 AntonioP 16003@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I already tried that. Baffled... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-get-bbpress-to-install#post-15999 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:49:35 +0000 chrishajer 15999@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Sounds like something is wrong with the database tables. It's trying to reuse tables that are there but there is some sort of problem. Can you drop those tables (if there is no content there) and then start the installation again? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-get-bbpress-to-install#post-15990 Tue, 06 May 2008 01:22:09 +0000 AntonioP 15990@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>"Step 3 - Site settings</p> <p>« completed<br /> Installation failed!</p> <p>! The database failed to install. You may need to replace bbPress with a fresh copy and start again. "</p> <p>Heres what I got from them.</p> <p>"Please ask the creator of this script for further assistance as Doteasy does not provide web design or development services. </p> <p>Here is the site error log for today. </p> <p>[Mon May 05 08:19:23 2008] [error] [client 65.61.193.36] php-script: line 4: 22269 Segmentation fault /usr/bin/php-cgi, referer: <a href="http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3" rel="nofollow">http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3</a><br /> [Mon May 05 08:19:23 2008] [error] [client 65.61.193.36] Premature end of script headers: php-script, referer: <a href="http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3" rel="nofollow">http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3</a>" </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-get-bbpress-to-install#post-15971 Mon, 05 May 2008 05:25:50 +0000 chrishajer 15971@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Which hosting account do you have from Doteasy? The free one does not have PHP and MySQL, I don't think. Their Ultra and above accounts do. It appears you have a Linux hosting account with them, which is good.</p> <p>bbPress has fairly minimal requirements from a host:</p> <p>* PHP 4.3 or greater<br /> * MySQL 4.0 or greater</p> <p>I can't imagine a Linux hosting account that doesn't meet those requirements. So what exactly does Doteasy mean by "incompatible"? I think you need to talk to them more. </p> <p>Also, what happens if you just go and finish the installation? Does it work, or error out?</p> <p>One last thing: do you have access to webserver logs to see what that Internal Server Error is? That might be key. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-get-bbpress-to-install#post-15968 Mon, 05 May 2008 00:46:32 +0000 AntonioP 15968@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I have had bbpress working on my doteasy account, and I decided to reinstall it - probably shouldn't have :( When I contacted them, they informed me that they would try running the script and installing it...and I got this message back</p> <p>"Hello Antonio,</p> <p>This script appears to be incompatible with our hosting servers. Please try using a different script."</p> <p>"The database failed to install. You may need to replace bbPress with a fresh copy and start again."</p> <p>Now here is what happens when I try to install the script.<br /> Your site settings have been saved and we are now ready to complete the installation. So what are you waiting for?</p> <p>Then when I proceed to the final step I get this error.</p> <p>"Internal Server Error</p> <p>The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.</p> <p>Please contact the server administrator, <a href="mailto:advancedsupport@doteasy.com">advancedsupport@doteasy.com</a> and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.</p> <p>More information about this error may be available in the server error log."</p> <p>At this point, if I refresh the page it goes back to the installer and I get this message " bbPress Installation<br /> Welcome to the bbPress installer<br /> Step 1 - Database configuration</p> <p>« completed<br /> Step 2 - WordPress integration (optional)</p> <p>« skipped<br /> Step 3 - Site settings<br /> Installation complete!<br /> Show installation messages: "</p> <p>If I then go back to atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress it wants to go back through the installation. What should I do? </p>