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bbPress Support Forums Tag: mis-installation http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress Support Forums Tag: mis-installation en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:12:48 +0000 devils_advocate on "Installation problems" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-problems#post-734 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:01:09 +0000 devils_advocate 734@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Sure. I guess I'm confused what the plug ins are supposed to do and how they act within wordpress and bbpress. I opened up and looked at both plug-ins (changed the ".php" to ".html") to see. And I realized that what I'm seeing in the installation pages in bbpress IS the plugin content of "display-name.php" preceding the regular Installation content. And in Wordpress - when I "activate" the "bbpress-integration.php" plug-in I can no longer browse any part of my Wordpress blog - the only page I get - regardless of where I try to go in the wordpress blog shows me the contents of the "bbpress-integration.php" plugin. I'm looking at a Trac page. With the wiki link, etc...all links not working because they are using my domain as root of the url. so - I've been trying to make this installation work without the plug-ins...and I get stuck at the first bbPress screen [login in the header all correct; my first post -1hour<--saw the post on this> etc] and am not able do anything from there. so far I've inched through a little progress every 2nd or third installation try...but right now I'm stuck I'll try your first suggestion - I figured the other one "true" NOT! out on my own.... thanks! devils_advocate mdawaffe on "Installation problems" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-problems#post-718 Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:59:03 +0000 mdawaffe 718@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Some of your settings aren't quite right. $bb->domain = 'http://domain.com'; $bb->path = '/cms/forums/'; $bb->wp_prefix = 'wp_'; // or whatever the prefix is. It should not be <code>true</code> Try that on, and let us know. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by the links being broken in the bbpress-integration WordPress plugin. Can you explain it differently? devils_advocate on "Installation problems" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-problems#post-712 Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:02:55 +0000 devils_advocate 712@http://bbpress.org/forums/ got past the styleshhet issue - and all - got bbpress installed. when I click on the link for the first post, I get this error... "Too many redirects occurred trying to open “http://mydomain.com/cms/bbpress/topic.php?id=1”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page." anyone have any clues to help? devils_advocate on "Installation problems" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-problems#post-629 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:42:57 +0000 devils_advocate 629@http://bbpress.org/forums/ ok - I found the ultimate guide and it got me 95% through... I'm still having a problem (that is likely in my WordPress set up) and a problem seeing the (default stylesheet).... ideas? devils_advocate on "Installation problems" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-problems#post-608 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:52:12 +0000 devils_advocate 608@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hi. I've a settled and happy little wordpress (version 2.02) community that I want to add a robust Forum software to. Seeing as how Wordpress.org recommends (and uses) bbPress, I thought I'd give it a go. I've read through the (available) documentation <--that which I understood, and made changes to the "config.php" file as I believed all should be. I know I have something wrong, because I can't seem to get the Forum to work with the WordPress installation I have. My problems are less now than the first install (I keep going into the database and deleting all the 'bb_' instances before try to run the install each time (6 times now) - but I still have a few issues I can't seem to put my finger on and would like to pick some brains - or be led down a truer path of enlightenment. <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1">#1</a> - I am not a php programmer (an illustrator by trade) but pretty sharp so you don't have to speak to far down to me =0) <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/2">#2</a> - I took the info for the top 3 lines of the "config.php" from my wordpress install. that is I left the 'BBDB_Name', 'added my DB name' left 'BBDB_USER', 'added MySQL username' and then the database password <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/3">#3</a> - the bbPress will reside within a "forums" directory inside directory named "cms" which is in the root of the site. I'm a mite confused about the blog and domain paths requested I thought I had them correct but everything lacked the WP template look (no css) and all the links for the "bbpress-integration.php" <-is this really a release plugin?), ahem...all of the links in the window this plug-in generates are two directories higher (on the root) instead of in the same directory as the forum. (more on this in a bit) This is what I have here: // If your bbPress URL is <a href="http://bbpress.example.com/forums/" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.example.com/forums/</a> , the examples would be correct. // Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL. // Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here. $bb->domain = 'http://domain.com/cms/forums'; // Example: 'http://bbpress.example.com' // There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. '/' is fine if the site is in root. $bb->path = '/cms/forums/'; // Example: '/forums/' respectively - and believe they are wrong - but unsure. <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/4">#4</a> - named the forum 'forum name' ; added my email address 'devils_advocate@mac.com'; left pretty permalinks to false; topics to 30; edit-lock to 60; offset time zone -5; used my actual akismet key # (is that correct?) and then got to the serious stuff - the three items for integration with Wordpress. <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/5">#5</a> - set $bb->wp_table_prefix = true; // 'wp_'; // WordPress table prefix. $bb->wp_home = <a href="http://domain.com/cms;" rel="nofollow">http://domain.com/cms;</a> // WordPress - Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash $bb->wp_siteurl = <a href="http://domain.com/cms;" rel="nofollow">http://domain.com/cms;</a> // WordPress - Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash And since this site isn't loading Wordpress with bbPress (being that Wordpress is the primary site) I left that alone. <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/6">#6</a> - then I create a folder/directory in the 'forum' directory called "my-plugins" and add the "display-name.php" plug-in to it (it gets calls for error on line 15 which is "search") everytime during config and I turn on the plug-in added to WordPress - (/cms/wp-content/templates/plugins) "bbpress-integration.php" (which opens immediately in "raw format" - even before I run the bbPress install. But these two plugs are recommended for us non-techies - so I go with it. <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/7">#7</a> - run the config.php follow the link to Step 1 [and get the same page shown with the "bbpress-integration.php" plug-in (links wrong) at the top, at the bottom a path error on headers and then the regular "Step 1" information to fill in. Repeat for step 2 Finally, when it appears to be complete I have a login page that is without css (no template integration); links two levels up toward root than where the forum resides 'domain.com/link' instead of domain.com/cms/forums/link' and not wp integration what-so-ever...none of the users/passwords are recognized (over 200) etc... what, what, what in gods name am I doing wrong? =0| thanks for any insight in advance..... devils advocate.