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bbPress support forums Tag: path http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Tag: path en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:14:58 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 on "I'm installed But Get 404 Not Found" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/im-installed-but-get-404-not-found#post-12051 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:34:19 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 12051@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Ok...Success! So, first of all, thank you for all of your help. I guess what I was doing wrong was creating a sub-directory called "forum" and then uploading the bbpress folder into that. I think that changed the address when it tried to access the files. For instance, rather than being <a href="http://www.my_site.com/forums" rel="nofollow">www.my_site.com/forums</a> it ended up being <a href="http://www.my_site.com/forums/bbpress." rel="nofollow">www.my_site.com/forums/bbpress.</a> My guess is it couldn't find it. So, what I did was, and I'm sure everyone reading this is thinking "Duh" was to create a sub-directory named forum so the address would be <a href="http://www.my_site.com/forum" rel="nofollow">www.my_site.com/forum</a> and then upload the bbpress "files" not the folder their housed in. Worked like a charm and even the sign-in page for step 1 looked like a WP sign-in sheet. Thanks again for you help. I'm done for the night, but I'm sure I'll be back soon as I try to set this thing up. Have a great night. chrishajer on "I'm installed But Get 404 Not Found" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/im-installed-but-get-404-not-found#post-12050 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:48:57 +0000 chrishajer 12050@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Whatever file your wp-config.php is in is where you normally want your bbpress folder. That would give you one of two things: <a href="http://www.site.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.site.com/</a> (where this is actually WordPress for your site) <a href="http://www.site.com/bbpress" rel="nofollow">http://www.site.com/bbpress</a> (bbPress forum) OR <a href="http://www.site.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.site.com/</a> (website) <a href="http://www.site.com/wordpress" rel="nofollow">http://www.site.com/wordpress</a> (WordPress blog) <a href="http://www.site.com/wordpress/bbpress" rel="nofollow">http://www.site.com/wordpress/bbpress</a> (bbPress forum) Lots of people use WordPress alone for their website. If you are using it for your site, and your site is at <a href="http://www.site.com," rel="nofollow">http://www.site.com,</a> and you want bbpress in a folder called bbpress, then drop the bbpress folder into the root folder for your site (wherever wp-config.php is.) IF you don't need integration, and you have a website, a blog (WordPress) and want a forum (bbPress) just put the bbpress folder at the same level as the wordpress folder. So you would have this: <a href="http://www.site.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.site.com/</a> <a href="http://www.site.com/wordpress/" rel="nofollow">http://www.site.com/wordpress/</a> <a href="http://www.site.com/bbpress/" rel="nofollow">http://www.site.com/bbpress/</a> If you are not concerned with integration, and you have a website AND a WordPress install, then I would do the option directly above (with bbpress and wordpress directories at the same level.) Hope that makes sense. ChgoGrrl99 on "I'm installed But Get 404 Not Found" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/im-installed-but-get-404-not-found#post-12048 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:40:57 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 12048@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Well, guess what? I just went and deleted all of the bbpress database tables and deleted the forums sub-directory. I'm going to do a fresh install. I think I should have installed bbPress inside the WP subdirectory and I think you and I have discussed this before. But, I'm an idiot today I guess. So, if you don't mind, this time when I install I should ftp bbPress to wordpress correct? WP is the main page (top level domain). So the url would be what? <a href="http://www.my_site.com/wordpress/bbpress?" rel="nofollow">www.my_site.com/wordpress/bbpress?</a> Or, am I totally off base here. Once again, I'm hosted by Yahoo and cannot make a .htaccess file and I will leave my mod_rewrite = false if that makes a difference. BTW, I'm not going to register users on the main site, so there's no need to integrate WP with bbPress. Thanks chrishajer on "I'm installed But Get 404 Not Found" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/im-installed-but-get-404-not-found#post-12047 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:34:03 +0000 chrishajer 12047@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hmmm - can you post a URL where this is visible? I can't imagine why there would be no URL after the <a href="http://" rel="nofollow">http://</a> in the 404 message (unless you edited that out so the world would not see it.) chrishajer on "I'm installed But Get 404 Not Found" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/im-installed-but-get-404-not-found#post-12046 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:31:48 +0000 chrishajer 12046@http://bbpress.org/forums/ A URL to your site would help with some of these problems. If your website is at <a href="http://www.my_site.com/," rel="nofollow">http://www.my_site.com/,</a> whatever folder beneath that level where you installed bbPress is the URL you should list in your config. So if you installed it in /forums/bbpress then yes, that is that is what would be in your config. Normally, you would use a subfolder right inside your website root folder. So, when you unzip bbPress, it creates a bbpress folder. You can rename that to forums if you want to access your site at <a href="http://www.my_site.com/forums/" rel="nofollow">http://www.my_site.com/forums/</a> - if you put that bbpress folder inside the forums folder, then the URL is going to be <a href="http://www.my_site.com/forums/bbpress" rel="nofollow">http://www.my_site.com/forums/bbpress</a> . ChgoGrrl99 on "I'm installed But Get 404 Not Found" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/im-installed-but-get-404-not-found#post-12042 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:42:56 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 12042@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Could I have entered the path wrong in the config file? I have <a href="http://www.my_site.com/forums" rel="nofollow">www.my_site.com/forums</a> and in the forums sub-directory I installed bbPress. Should it have been <a href="http://www.my_site.com/forums/bbpress?" rel="nofollow">www.my_site.com/forums/bbpress?</a> ChgoGrrl99 on "I'm installed But Get 404 Not Found" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/im-installed-but-get-404-not-found#post-12041 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:34:31 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 12041@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hi, I just finished installing and now, when I click on say the first post I get a 404 Not Found the requested url <a href="http://" rel="nofollow">http://</a> was not found on this server. I have mod_rewrite set to false and, oh, because I'm hosted by Yahoo, I'm not allowed to have a .htaccess file. any ideas? RonJRoy on "Style Sheet" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/style-sheet#post-10421 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:33:57 +0000 RonJRoy 10421@http://bbpress.org/forums/ The set up is simply <a href="http://localhost/bp_web/forums/bbpress" rel="nofollow">http://localhost/bp_web/forums/bbpress</a> and the site is up with no style sheet. I have looked through the templates and I have viewed the source and the style sheet is coming-up as error 404 not found. It seems to me that somewhere in the bbpress coding that the style sheet is not linked properly. I'm not very well versed in php but I have a good handle on css and xhtml. chrishajer on "Style Sheet" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/style-sheet#post-10419 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:25:53 +0000 chrishajer 10419@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Sounds like the path to the site is wrong in the config. Do you have a URL where this is occuring, or any info about your hosting setup. You have access to the HTML in all the template files and the CSS too. You can make bbPress look like whatever you want. <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/top-100-bbpress-sites</a> <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/forum/pimp-your-press" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/forum/pimp-your-press</a> <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/strut-your-bbpress" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/strut-your-bbpress</a> RonJRoy on "Style Sheet" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/style-sheet#post-10415 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:58:14 +0000 RonJRoy 10415@http://bbpress.org/forums/ To add to my last post, It appears that the style sheet is not being applied to the forum. I would like to make some extensive changes and I need to know what files I use and how is the style sheet to be linked? Do we have access to the html and can we change the layout? chrishajer on "admin page not displaying properly" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/admin-page-not-displaying-properly#post-10330 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:56:16 +0000 chrishajer 10330@http://bbpress.org/forums/ The forum is located here: <a href="http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/index.php</a> But the config entry is wrong, because the server thinks the URI for the site is here: <a href="http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/forum.html/" rel="nofollow">http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/forum.html/</a> So, in your config.php, you have this: <code>$bb->uri = 'http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/forum.html/';</code> instead of this: <code>$bb->uri = 'http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/';</code> Change that line, and you'll be good to go. The site looks like that because the path to the style.css file is wrong (among other things). In fact, once the URI is corrected, the site looks like this: <a href="http://www.chrishajer.com/bike/XLF/ClayStreet.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.chrishajer.com/bike/XLF/ClayStreet.png</a> Good luck. gro11ver on "admin page not displaying properly" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/admin-page-not-displaying-properly#post-10328 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:22:51 +0000 gro11ver 10328@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I installed and seem to have a database connection, yet my page looks like this: <a href="http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/index.php." rel="nofollow">http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/index.php.</a> i cant find info how to fix this. thanks for helping. Omarvelous on "localhost installs" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/localhost-installs#post-7624 Thu, 24 May 2007 13:38:10 +0000 Omarvelous 7624@http://bbpress.org/forums/ GREAT!! Thx! dprice on "localhost installs" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/localhost-installs#post-6907 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:42:41 +0000 dprice 6907@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Cheers mirfan - your fix worked a treat! (I've got an XP install using <a href="http://www.wampserver.com/en/index.php" title="WAMP server">WAMP</a> as a server - just for testing stuff atm). mirfan on "localhost installs" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/localhost-installs#post-6438 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:34:00 +0000 mirfan 6438@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I changed <code>define( 'BBPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );</code> with this: <code>define( 'BBPATH', str_replace('\\', '/', realpath(dirname(__FILE__))) . '/' );</code> in bb-load.php, and now it works on localhost with windows xp sp2. tquizzle on "localhost installs" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/localhost-installs#post-6373 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:23:15 +0000 tquizzle 6373@http://bbpress.org/forums/ davetropeano's fix worked, although I had to dig a little to find out exactly what he was referring to. You dont want to create a field but rather a row in the "bb_topicmeta" table. I was able to check a working bbpress installation on Linux to verify the setting. I noticed that the bb_active_theme was set to use the full server path to the template folder. The below did the trick for me. meta_id = next available number topic_id = 0 meta_key = bb_active_theme meta_value = /bbpress-path/bb-templates/theme-to-use/ Save that, cross your fingers and refresh your forum. Trent on "localhost installs" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/localhost-installs#post-6254 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:30:51 +0000 Trent 6254@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Thanks for the discussion! I will make sure I point mdawaffe to this thread! Cheers, Trent davetropeano on "localhost installs" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/localhost-installs#post-6250 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:40:49 +0000 davetropeano 6250@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I recently did my first bbpress install on localhost and it went miserably. I used the latest download from today. Checking on this forum I had the same path seperator issues and stylesheet issues others had, etc. My $bb->domain and $bb->path were fine. The fresh install just didn't work properly under xampp and then again a retry on easyPHP. This is the solution and findings I found: 1. The first issue is because in config.php and bb-load.php dirname(__FILE__) is used to get the base path for BBPATH. This is not a good thing on localhost Windows based installs. 2. There are a number of attempted workarounds to this that I've read about in this forum. All of them that I saw didn't work. Focusing on the issue with the stylesheet href not being correct I noticed that there was logic in the bb_get_active_theme_folder() function. By default, the installer does NOT create an option entry 'bb_active_theme' in the database table topicmeta. The code logic doesn't make the correct uri. To fix this, do an install and then add a database field bb_active_theme in the topicmeta table. For example, I set mine to: <a href="http://localhost/dev/bbpress/" rel="nofollow">http://localhost/dev/bbpress/</a> Playing regular expression games to change x:\ and \ in general is not worth it. This seemed to be simple and worked right out of the box. chrishajer on "I cannot install bbp" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/i-cannot-install-bbp#post-5037 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:12:52 +0000 chrishajer 5037@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Why is this not 'http://localhost' in your config? $bb->domain = 'http://my-cool-forums.example.com'; Seems like it would be looking for a subdomain of example.com is you use that in your config. In this screenshot, the browser status bar shows that it is looking for <a href="http://my-cool-forums.example.com" rel="nofollow">http://my-cool-forums.example.com</a> <a href="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6812/untitled2sy5.png" rel="nofollow">http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6812/untitled2sy5.png</a> (look at the status on the bottom left, why is that there?) Does that URL also appear in the source of the rendered page, which you took a screenshot of? So, if you right click in the browser window, and select "view source" does that URL appear (the example.com one)? Trent on "I cannot install bbp" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/i-cannot-install-bbp#post-5023 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:44:55 +0000 Trent 5023@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I am not sure what problems you are having exactly. Is it the same as your last post on this issue? If so, chrishajer wanted to help you in <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/795?replies=17#post-4858">this reply</a>. I see from your screenshot and your config.php file above that you haven't edited it to your circumstance. You have to put in the values that correspond to your install for these parts here: <pre><code>$bb->domain = 'http://my-cool-forums.example.com'; // 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 = '/'; // Example: '/forums/'</code></pre> Right now, you have the my-cool-forums.example.com and that has to be the URL of your install. Does your system work with an IP address or <a href="http://localhost" rel="nofollow">http://localhost</a> or how do you access it. That will be part of the reason the graphics don't work as that portion isn't correct. Trent flatworm on "I cannot install bbp" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/i-cannot-install-bbp#post-5018 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:07:45 +0000 flatworm 5018@http://bbpress.org/forums/ My bbPress does not want to show graphics and log me on. It looks like if i would run it from my disk, without xampp. Help me please. <a href="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6812/untitled2sy5.png" rel="nofollow">http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6812/untitled2sy5.png</a> <a href="http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8210/untitledua0.png" rel="nofollow">http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8210/untitledua0.png</a> My bbPress does not want to show graphics and log me on. It looks like if i would run it from my disk, without xampp. Here is my config.php <?php // ** MySQL settings ** // define('BBDB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database define('BBDB_USER', 'admin'); // Your MySQL username define('BBDB_PASSWORD', 'precision'); // ...and password define('BBDB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value // Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database. $bb_table_prefix = 'bb_'; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please! // 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://my-cool-forums.example.com'; // 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 = '/'; // Example: '/forums/' // What are you going to call me? $bb->name = 'Thinker'; // This must be set before running the install script. $bb->admin_email = 'v@m.com'; // Set to true if you want pretty permalinks. $bb->mod_rewrite = false; // The number of topics that show on each page. $bb->page_topics = 30; // A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting. $bb->edit_lock = 60; // Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time. $bb->gmt_offset = 0; // 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 BBLANG to 'de' // to enable German language support. define('BBLANG', ''); // Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage // of Akismet's powerful spam blocking, you'll need one. You can get an Akismet key at // <a href="http://wordpress.com/api-keys/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.com/api-keys/</a> $bb->akismet_key = ''; // Example: '0123456789ab' // The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress. // If you're not, just leave the rest as it is. $bb->wp_table_prefix = ''; // WordPress table prefix. Example: 'wp_'; $bb->wp_home = ''; // WordPress - Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: 'http://example.com' $bb->wp_siteurl = ''; // WordPress - Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: 'http://example.com' /* Stop editing */ if ( !defined('BBPATH') ) define('BBPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' ); require_once( BBPATH . 'bb-settings.php' ); ?> medden on "Plugin: Graphic Display Ranks -- Error" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-graphic-display-ranks-error#post-4633 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:08:41 +0000 medden 4633@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I'm getting the same problem. Did you ever find a solution? actorjiml on "Plugin: Graphic Display Ranks -- Error" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-graphic-display-ranks-error#post-3964 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:53:14 +0000 actorjiml 3964@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I'm using this code in my Graphic Display Ranks plugin: <code>$path_to_subdirectory= bb_get_option('uri') . "my-plugins/ranks/"; $get_config = $path_to_subdirectory . "gdr_config.php"; include($get_config);</code> The plugin works just fine on the forum, but on the admin pages I'm getting these warnings: Warning: main(my-plugins/ranks/gdr_config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/brightan/public_html/bbPress/my-plugins/display-rank-images.php on line 43 Warning: main(my-plugins/ranks/gdr_config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/brightan/public_html/bbPress/my-plugins/display-rank-images.php on line 43 Warning: main(): Failed opening 'my-plugins/ranks/gdr_config.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/brightan/public_html/bbPress/my-plugins/display-rank-images.php on line 43 I'm pretty sure it's something to do with the path, but what am I not seeing? ear1grey on "Change URL address?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-url-address#post-1422 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:44:51 +0000 ear1grey 1422@http://bbpress.org/forums/ The symlink would mean old URI's would still work, but any new URI's generated (on every new page) would point to the preferred address. I think it's maybe also worth adding this to <code>robots.txt</code> a: <code>User-agent: * Disallow: /your-old-folder</code> So that any robots that discover one of the older URLs don't go indexing what they might consider as duplicate pages. Longer term you could also add a 301 redirect to htaccess to ensure any links to the old content have rank properly attributed to the new location... but this is probably getting waaay too complex if it's a new installation. Another alternative, of course, is to just rename the folder and change your <code>config.php</code> - it's more maverick than the symlink approach, but if your forum is new and has no fully qualified self referencing links contained within, then it's not much of a wrench to just move the whole kaboodle. ergate on "Change URL address?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-url-address#post-1418 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:56:56 +0000 ergate 1418@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Only gotchas I can see would be in the content of the posts, if there are links from one post to another post within the forum. They will break. ear1grey on "Change URL address?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-url-address#post-1416 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:18:00 +0000 ear1grey 1416@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I think the easiest (& most stable) solution is to use a symlink such as <code>ln -s /path/to/bbpress newname</code> in the folder where you want the new forum to appear (probably at the top level of your server). Then, once that's running, open your <code>config.php</code> and change <code>$bb->path = '/newname/';</code> I think that's all, and you have the advantage of being able to get the symlink working before asking bbpress to use the new path when creating links. Anyone see any gotchas with that? worrypascanada on "Change URL address?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-url-address#post-1408 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:51:30 +0000 worrypascanada 1408@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hello again, How and where can I change my URL from <a href="http://www.patrimoineacadien.com/bbpress/" rel="nofollow">http://www.patrimoineacadien.com/bbpress/</a> to <a href="http://www.patrimoineacadien.com/somethingnew/?" rel="nofollow">http://www.patrimoineacadien.com/somethingnew/?</a> Thanks for replying.