I recently upgraded my VPS from Debian 5 to Debian 6.
Related to this were the following changes :
PHP : 5.2.6-1 ---> 5.3.3-7
MySQL : 5.0.5a ---> 5.1.49

It was a few days ago. Apparently everything was OK.

On my website there is a forum which is not very active so I don't know exactly when the problems appeared but I think it must be related to this :
Today I saw that 2 people had posted an answer to a recent topic but something went wrong : both answers are not linked to the topic and when I want to add this manually through the backoffice the topic just don't appear in the list.

Moreover, I tried to post answers to this topic but I immediadely get Erreur HTTP 500 (Internal Server Error). Of course the problem is the same when I try to answer to other topics.

Any idea about what the problem is and how to solve this ?

I'm using WordPress 3.3.2 and bbpress 2.0.2

Thanks for your help !

Best Regards,
Laurent

Johann Sebastian Konrad Laski UGA

I installed wordpress on a folder in my site. And then installed the bbpress plugin version.
Then I tried this bbpress conversion plugin.

Voila. It worked.

However, I hate the way this is set up and looks. Anyone can read the forums. You only need to login to reply. I like the standalone version much better and I feel like I had better control over the settings, too.

I wonder why the conversion plugin works, but converting for standalone doesn't...

For the record, using the plugin version with wordpress retained both my wordpress and phpbb3 passwords/usernames. Converting using standalone erased both, it seems, rendering any login impossible.

I wonder if I can now convert from plugin version to standalone version...

There is also a thread about it here:
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/introducing-bbconverter-convert-your-current-forums-for-use-with-bbpress-2x

users, including myself as admin/keymaster, aren't able to reset passwords. the emails never arrive. it says an email with a new password was sent, but it never arrives.

so basically, after i make this conversion, i'm unable to log in AT ALL. not as admin/keymaster or any user.

I've just checked phpmyadmin console again after a new install: I can no confirm that my installation keymaster login completely disappears after the conversion. the username is gone entirely, leaving me only with the 4 usernames from my original phpBB3 board. the issue is that those passwords don't work and resetting apparently will not send me any emails to reset.

i'm so lost.

On the keymaster account there was a trick to that which I do not recall at this moment. However, I do believe you can edit the database itself.

I believe it changes the role to admin instead of keymaster and then you will have to also change the password to something else.

Did you use the converter noted in this thread?
The first link I posted was a very good step by step process that could also give you the info you need.

If I find anything I will post here to further help out. Good luck.

Here's what I've done:
(1) Install bbpress standalone to same database/sql username/pass as phpBB3 forum
(2) Convert phpBB3 tables using this converter
(3) Go back to bbpress to try to log in as keymaster and it doesn't work. i try other usernames from the phpBB3 and they don't work. Mind you, my phpBB3 board only had for users. This board was only set up for my band to discuss new song ideas back and forth while we're away.

Any help? I'm kind of a novice. I've gone into phpmyadmin console and see only 4 users in the bb_users file. In fact, it appears as if after I do the conversion, it's overwriting my original keymaster login. that one is no where to be seen...

hmmmmm

Any help? Why can't I login with my bbpress password? Or any password/login for that reason?

In case anyone comes across the same problem with the date, check this post out: http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2246

Yesterday I've installed bbPress on a WordPress-driven website (I've only just started using WP as well, just about a week ago, so bear with me please) and immediately afterward I noticed some strange strings here and there, both on the front-end and the back-end too. Apparently, the dates+time and some author information doesn't get rendered correctly.

e.g. %A %B %e%q, %Y at %I:%M %p (you can see it here)

What can I do about this?

I used the updated script provided by Abdessamad Idrissi at http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/downloads/list on my phpBB3 forum.

The conversion went smoothly and I could see the posts from my old forum appear in my bbpress forum.

However, all the posts had the authors listed as Anonymous, which means none of the users accounts were ported over.

Can someone help with this please? How did this happen and how can I fix this?

Tried moving the bbp-twentyten template files into child theme (and adding theme support to functions.php) and everything went haywire.

One thought is to use pages with shortcodes for the child forums, but this site is going to have tons of child forums so that is not an appealing option and would not be user friendly for the client.

Any ideas?

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If it makes any difference, this is a buddypress/bbpress plugin install. I have not moved any bbpress files into my child theme.

Thanks to everyone for all the good advice!

It's only a suggestion to just check the source code of your forum index what stylesheets and what scripte are loaded from what source. Then compare it with the calls from the functions.php files. Maybe you can find some issue...

I didn't liked all these combining and integrating so I just added some css rules to my theme stylesheet (most with "!important" but I don't care that much about this...) and left all other on default bbPress which worked best for me :)

Hope this helps a bit, Dave :)

@travishill: The most strange thing has happened.
i once again unchecked "Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug"

and the links started working
but at the same time the forums stopped using my custom templates and reverted to the templates from the child bbpress theme

I checked the checkbox back, and the links still work. But the templates did not revert to my custom templates :)

I see that many people in this forum, who have this problem, eventually get it solved, but they cannot explain how :)

Going fishing my template now...

I've also found that I have the "create new topic" form on the specific forum, when I submit the topic I get the page-not-found, but if I navigate back to the forum the new topic is indeed listed.

Any help is MUCH appreciated!

I'd start with plugins. Deactivate and see if anything changes.

If yes, find culprit plugin and remove/find replacement. If no, move to theme related issue.

So the contents of your child theme folder somewhat follows:

/bbpress/
/css/
/js/
archive-*.php
**functions.php
page-*.php
single-*.php
**style.css

And these files all represent files from /bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/{files}?

If so, you've created a PAGE, with either the bbpress shortcode or page template?

Have you tried the bbpress packaged theme?

I don't personally know of any directly conflicting plugins with bbpress, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist. It still seem's URLish to me. .htaccess maybe.

Either way, the last thing you'll want to do, i'm guessing, is a fresh install. We'll try to get you there before that's the (possible) solution.

All the Forum settings are default, i didnt change anything after instalation.

Archive Slugs
Forums base forums
Topics base topics

Single Slugs
Forum Prefix checked
Forum slug forum
Topic slug topic
Topic tag slug topic-tag
Reply slug reply
User base users
View base view

I tried to access the forum via the original link http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/?p=3448. But that links changes the line in the address bar to the nice address http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums/forum/one-new-test-forum and it still gives 404 error.

regarding the other plugins, true i have 26 plugins active, which i all use.
Are there any known conflicts with other plugins? Just to know before i will make a clean install.

Thank you

What are your settings in Dashboard > Settings > Forums for Archive Slugs & Single Slugs?

Are there any potential BuddyPress link errors (if BP is indeed installed)?

Have you (un)prefixed your forum with the forum slug/changed any settings in this area?

Have you tried accessing the forums/topics via the original fuglylink? (http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/?p=### [where ### is the ID of the forum/topic]).

Lastly, are there any other plugins activated?

Well, i installed my test environment into that subdirectory. But the links see to be created nicely and logically:

to the forum
http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums/forum/second-new-test-forum

to the topic
http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums/topic/testing-topic-2

even if i add a trailing slash at the end of a link, it doesnt work anyway.

I am completely lost here. I have read every post in this forum about the similar problems, but never saw an insuring answer :(

The URL to your forums topics are missing a trailing slash /.

What permalink structure are you using? It may be because you've installed into a subdirectory also (8ball.lu/wordpress/).

Any further detail may help.

What do i do wrong? Pretty please.