Sample:
Page http://themescommunity.com/faqs/
Forum http://themescommunity.com/ forums/forum/faqs/ -> I don't have faqs forum this is just a sample. See the "/forums/forum/" that make different url.

Buy you saying that your http://www.domain.com/gaming/ redirected to http://www.domain.com/forums/forum/gaming/

Can you provide more details about it, real url maybe. Does it related to your wp permalinks setup?

If my question is not clear, please let me know.
I'm running the latest version of both WordPress and bbPress (3.3.1 & 2.0.2).

I've tried to search the forum, but i couldn't find a similar question. I'm sorry if this is a double post anyway.

At the moment i'm having a website that runs WordPress with a mingle forum. I'm no longer happy with this forum, so my decision was to make use of bbPress and I'm checking this out now.

The problem i run into, is that i cannot have the same slug for pages, as I use for forums. Let's say the slug i want to use is called 'gaming'. The permalink displayed here is http://www.domain.com/forums/forum/gaming/. Now i want to add a page to WordPress about gaming. In this case it will rename the slug to gaming-2, as if the slug was already used by another page.

When i enter the URL http://www.domain.com/gaming/ it does redirect me to http://www.domain.com/forums/forum/gaming/. But I want the WordPress page to show up on the first URL and this specific forum only on the later.

I tried to look some further and found out both WP pages as BBP forums were saved in the 'wp_posts' table. Editing the 'post_name' column here solves my problem, but it would be nice if other administrators, without database permissions could get this done too.

I hope I just miss something obvious here, would be great if someone can help me out!

Cheers,

Hedgehog

The Code

We're attempting to simply output the basename of the permalink and use that in an IF/ELSE statement using the following to generate:


<?php

?>


The Problem

For the purpose of this post, we'll say that we have bbPress set to http://site.ext/community/. We need to grab 'community' from the URL, which is what the code above 'should' do, but doesn't. Instead, it's grabbing the basename for the last forum we created and continues to update as we create new forums/categories.

To get the basename, we've simply echo'ed out $gettheslug in the header. This works for all other areas of the website, except with the bbPress portion which is what's so confusing :).

Perhaps we're doing something wrong, perhaps I'm doing something wrong. As above, any help is much appreciated.

Just like on this site: http://bbpress.org/forums/ displays all of the forums available. On my website the URL http://www.mysite.com/forums/ just throws a 404 and I don't know 'where' that page is...?

Many thanks for your help in advance,

Paul

@stereopoly , does your forum work correctly with the existence of htaccess file in the forum folder ?

But something is wrong because the pages cannot be found. This is my rewrite code (it is a bit different from your code because I am using the newest version of bbpress):

# BEGIN bbPress

Options -MultiViews

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forum/

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/?$ [R=302,L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/?$ /forum/ [R=302,L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/?$ tags.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/?$ profile.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/?$ rss.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/topics/?$ rss.php?forum=$1&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /forum/rss.php?tag=$1&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/view/([^/]+)/?$ /forum/rss.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ /forum/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END bbPress

Probably I made something wrong with point four where you say that the lines 46 and 48 have to be switched. What do I actually have do do there?

Quote: "4. Open up bb-post.php at the root of your bbPress install and simply switch lines number 46 and 48"

Is it this code?
$link = get_post_link($post_id);

$topic = get_topic( $topic_id, false );

http://blog.markroberthenderson.com/getting-rid-of-forums-and-topic-from-bbpress-permalinks-updated-plugin/

Any updates?

Forum:
http://www.callofduty.se/forum/

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'..?)

Would'nt it be possible to replace accentuated/specials characters such as é, è, ê, ë, â, à, ç by their equivalents, urls compatible chars in topic slugs?

This is not implemented currently, and i suppose it follows the same behaviour for tags.

has someone done that yet?

Thanks

Also, the My Views plugins don't seem to work properly, has anyone else noticed this?

Basically anything that is a forum has the word 'forum' in front of it. Anything that is a topic has 'topic' etc.

The fact that it is installed in your 'forum' directory is what is throwing you off.

i already recognized that there are many posts about the problems of permalinks. but nobody have the same issue. i created htaccess and tried both modes (Multiview and manual copy from bbpress). I have no wordpress installation, but guess that is no problem. My permalinks does not work.

site url: http://bauklimatik-dresden.de/forum/
but the permalinks are like this: http://bauklimatik-dresden.de/forum/forum/climatic-data

i saw a lot of posts which have instead of forum forums? however i am not able to get it work...
thanks for any help!