So I feel like a dummy but Im happy I got it figured out. I kept checking "create category"

(Make this forum a category
Categories are forums where new topics cannot be created. Categories usually contain a group of sub-forums.)

Unchecked that bad boy and now all is fine. I overlook the smallest things sometimes...

Thank you all so much. I am super happy I have a forum for my site now. = )

I don't have access to my SQL database at the moment, but that could be the place where it checks to see if the forum is installed. Someone will probably have to check up on that one for me.

You should probably delete the SQL databases as well, and restart completely.

Peace, Michael

I have not done too much work yet at all. Unfortunately I deleted all of the files off of my server and the reuploaded them via ftp (cyberduck)

After that I had to go through the installation step one and when I entered in the information it said its already installed! (weird since I had deleted everything)

I'm going to try and delete everything again. Re download the files from bbpress, and re upload them. Maybe it will work =)

thank you so much for a quick reply btw

If you are already using the included kakumei template, make sure all the files were properly uploaded. It looks like some things are missing.

If you haven't done too much work yet (either modifications or posting) I would just save the bb-config.php and delete everything else, then reupload all the bbPress files and try accessing the forum again. It just doesn't look complete.

If you did anything other that just install the bare bones bbPress, please post here what you did. Things like integration, modifications, 1-click install from your host, anything interesting about your hosting setup. Thanks

My forum is at http://musclecontrol.org/tmpftp/bbpress/

For some reason I cannot post at all? I edited the only topic I had, but could not post a reply or start a new topic? So I deleted the only topic and now have nothing. I have no idea how to fix this. I looked all over the admin panel. I searched the forums but nobody seemed to have this same problem.

Any ideas?

Trent

Remember how the cookies "looked" identical?

Well they weren't.

The cookies created by bbpress added the hash to the end of the cookie name.

Both Safari and Camino didn't reveal this, but Flock did. I was using these other browsers as a testing platform because I needed to clear cookies in between each test.

I added:

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';
$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

To my bbpress config to solve the problem. (which I found on one of the links you sent me)

I actually like the idea of the cookie name including the hash. Isn't this more secure? Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this make it near impossible for another site to read that cookie?

Thanks for your help Trent!

If you let me know how you have it setup and what you have in your wp-config.php and config.php for cookie and integration stuff, I might be able to assist more. I just know that if you already installed bbPress and it is using bb_users versus wp_users, it might be harder to get the cookies working (at least in my experience)..

Trent

Perhaps I'll take a look at how each application is looking for the cookies. There might be a clue in there.

It seems most people have the forum in a sub directory of wp,.. which makes things much easier.

But what I don't understand is,.. the cookies are IDENTICAL... why doesn't it work?

I not sure of the 'exact' best procedure of combining bbPress and WPMU, but these are some users that have it going:

http://bbpress.org/blog/2006/09/simpler-integration-with-wordpress

http://codex.wordpress.org/Ergate/wpmu_bbPress_integration

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2166&replies=10

It is a little different with WPMU as the table structures are a little different, but those posts seem to most likely have the key. Integrating with normal WP is much easier.

Trent

My site is setup like this:
domain.com/blog
domain.com/forum

This is what I have thus far:
In my bbpress config.php

$bb->cookiedomain = '.domain.com';
$bb->cookiepath = '/';
$bb->sitecookiepath = '/';

In my wpmu wp-settings.php around line 245

if ( !defined('COOKIEPATH') )
	define('COOKIEPATH', '/' );
if ( !defined('SITECOOKIEPATH') )
	define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/' );
if ( !defined('COOKIE_DOMAIN') )
	//define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.' . $current_site->domain);
	define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.domain.com');

Of course I replaced "domain.com" with my actual domain.

The result is I get a total of 4 cookies when I login into both sites.
Both sets are identical except expiration. (I even edited the expiration date with no avail, apparently bbpress is a full year and day off)

the cookie properties look like this:

website			name			path		secure		expires			value
bbpress
.domain.com		wordpresspass		/		no		Mar 03, 2008		long_hash
.domain.com		wordpressuser		/		no		Mar 03, 2008		test

wpmu
.domain.com		wordpresspass		/		no		Mar 04, 2007		long_hash (same as the other)
.domain.com		wordpressuser		/		no		Mar 04, 2007		test

The only difference is the expiration date. As you can see bbpress has an issue with the date.

Perhaps I need sleep, or I don't understand how the cookies are supposed to work. But I'm beat.. I can't battle it anymore tonight.

I'm going to go get some sleep. Perhaps I'll be able to figure it out from a fresh approach.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Steven

<?php

function fix_bb_path_to_url( $url ) {
	return preg_replace( '|:/([^/])|', '://', $url );
}

add_filter( 'bb_path_to_url', 'fix_bb_path_to_url', 1, -1 );

?>

It is an error that mdawaffe created that patch for at:

http://trac.bbpress.org/attachment/ticket/575/path-to-url.php

Trent

yet in config.php it has http://forum5o1.awardspace.com not http:/
and all the links have http:// ...

So I have no idea :S

This only happens when a deisgn is "activated" so i will cause it to go to default (which is what i did before to make me think that it got fixed).

I tried upgrading form 0.75 (or whatever bix is) ...but was confusing so just deleted all tables but bb_users (so no one needs to re-register).

Now I have no idea what is happening but there is no theme being shown and only text. ARGH!

bbPress database error: [Unknown column 'meta_key' in 'field list']
SELECT meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_usermeta WHERE user_id = '1'

bbPress database error: [Unknown column 'meta_key' in 'where clause']
SELECT * FROM wp_usermeta WHERE user_id = '1' AND meta_key = 'bb_capabilities'

bbPress database error: [Unknown column 'meta_key' in 'field list']
INSERT INTO wp_usermeta ( user_id, meta_key, meta_value ) VALUES ( '1', 'bb_capabilities', 'a:1:{s:6:\"member\";b:1;}' )
admin

Gary

My forum is a subdirectory of my blog by the way.

Gary

wp_capabilities a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}

Should this be deleted?

Gary

Login problem:
wp_home and wp_siturl will only work if the url for your forums is a "subdirectory" of the url for your WordPress blog. If that is not the case, you'll need the more fine-grained control mentioned in the Cookie integration with WordPress Documentation

Installation problem:
on Installation, bbPress looks to see if there are any keymasters in the User Tables already. You'll need to go to your usermeta table and delete the entry:

meta_key = $bb_table_prefix . 'capabilities' (example: 'bb_capablities')
meta_value = a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;}

This part of the installation will have to change in the next version for several reasons. The difficulties you're seeing is one of them.

Gary

hth
Phillip

Thanks for the advice. I do have the right table prefix. What I see as the issue is that the first time I installed, it let me select users from a list. Each time I have done a reinstall, it does not, it keeps the same each time. Is something not being done by me in the reinstall to cause that.

Gary