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bbPress Support Forums » Topic: bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu en-US Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:42:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://bbpress.org/forums/search.php John James Jacoby on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu/page/2#post-38363 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:13:21 +0000 John James Jacoby 38363@http://bbpress.org/forums/ This is great info. Awesome work. JasonG on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu/page/2#post-38009 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:15:45 +0000 JasonG 38009@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Here is the latest integration rundown. I first lay out some helpful hints to those out there looking for them, and toward the bottom I point out something which the integration plug-in does not properly handle. That is the HTTPS secure cookie upon logging out. Depending on your setup this may cause issues. Most of the time you'll be ok. If your like us and have added a proprietary layer of security for internal use only, you like to make sure when your secure cookies expire they expire asap and are completely gone. I recommend maybe, just a suggestion as I'm not privy to the dev's stream of intentions to query if 'BB_FORCE_SSL_xxx...' is set. This is probably a much better indication of scheme than relying on the database option only. I know your busy Sam and that wpmu integration is like the last thing on your list. However, some of the code base is already merging. Noteables: Step <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/6">#6</a>, Step <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/7">#7</a> But before you continue: 1.) Disable Your Cache Server (Varnish/Squid). Go straight to your webserver (Eliminate other causes.) 2.) Get Integration working on plain http first. DO NOT define any force SSL/Admin anywhere on either wpmu/wp/bbpress. 3.) Go back and integrate if you can't get <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/2">#2</a> done. Some helpful hints that work: 3a.) Install wp/wpmu 3b.) Install bbpress 3c.) Install integration plugin for wp. In the option where it says complete URL, that means "http://mysite.com" and not "mysite.com". If your _only_ (meaning 100% of the time) ever going to use HTTPS then go ahead and define HTTPS. 3d.) I made sure all key/salts were setup in wp first, and then mirrored them into bb-config prepending BB_ in front of each Define. I defined manually: AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY, NONCE_KEY, AUTH_SALT, LOGGED_IN_SALT, AND SECURE_AUTH_SALT (7 in total defines). Once you have HTTP squared away Proceed with SSL: 4.) The integration plugin will try do some things for you in the backend, it will actually try to do all the cookie work for you. However it works off values you set via the integration option page and your wpmu site options. To take control of a few options, go ahead and define MANUALLY the following: (just as the plug-in suggests and more sometimes): COOKIEHASH, COOKIE_DOMAIN, SITECOOKIEPATH, and COOKIEPATH. 5.) Add to wp-config.php: define('FORCE_SSL_LOGIN', true); define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true); 6.) Add to bb-config.php: define('BB_FORCE_SSL_USER_FORMS', true); define('BB_FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true); 7.) The kicker for me since I'm using MU Subdomains, i HAD to put into my bb-config: $bb->cookiedomain='.mydomain.com' //Yes, with the dot before the domain. (This is literally the only direct access object config I set in my PHP file. All the rest is handled by 'DEFINE' ) Up to this point you should have integration with HTTP and HTTPS. Back and forth, forth and back, every which way. You should have it done without any manual speed up accessors. If it works, go ahead and add them but make sure you set them correctly. If your fanatical about security then cross the line, otherwise go get a beer, woman or pillow whatever. ----------The Line---------- 8.) Log into BBpress. Goto your main blog, and wp will see you have a 'logged_in' cookie. Will display the site_admin link. Just go ahead and click log out. 9.) Logging out will log you out, except a few cookies are left over. This is because the integration plug-in never inspects the HTTPS scheme properly. It will always look for HTTP. Test this by editing line 182 in the plugin file to read: $secure = true; //Don't forget to change me back to false (default). 10.) Repeat, and you'll notice your cookies (the ones which matter) get blown away. Notes: - If you install WPMU 2.8 Alpha/Beta/Etc... you must _NOT_ enable define( 'WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION', 1 ) as the plugin suggests. - I DID NOT use any of the "speed up" manual configs which the bbpress integration tool points out. If you can't get it working without these settings, adding them may not help at all and masks your real issue which is some other settings are screwed. - you NEED to make sure your URLs are correct. That means every single URL defined in your database in any meta table, options etc... Especially the case with the integration plugin. JasonG on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu/page/2#post-38002 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:33:07 +0000 JasonG 38002@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Just started debugging but looks like the plugin reads the scheme from the URL stored option of the integration plugin. If your using secure it will never flag secure if using force ssl. JasonG on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu/page/2#post-37955 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:32:22 +0000 JasonG 37955@http://bbpress.org/forums/ the defines worked. However logging out does not clear nor log me out of bbpress when I've logged on via wpmu. I'll xdebug tonight, any pointers or things I should check? I have 7 cookie keys/salts define in both configs and all are identical. No go. Thanks guys, -J Sam Bauers on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu/page/2#post-37884 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:44:31 +0000 Sam Bauers 37884@http://bbpress.org/forums/ To be honest though, I've never tried integration across SSL sites, it may not be possible with currently existing tools. Setting bbPress to also force SSL might do it, but I can't do any testing right now. Sam Bauers on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu/page/2#post-37883 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:42:39 +0000 Sam Bauers 37883@http://bbpress.org/forums/ In bbPress to use SSL you need these in your bb-config.php: <pre><code>define('BB_FORCE_SSL_USER_FORMS', true); define('BB_FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);</code></pre> JasonG on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu/page/2#post-37882 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:56:38 +0000 JasonG 37882@http://bbpress.org/forums/ WPMU Trunk + bbPress Latest RC + Integration Plugin with: define('FORCE_SSL_LOGIN', true); define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true); Does not work. Setting the values to false (disabling SSL/HTTPS), integration works great. However when it comes to SSL, forget it. I'm going to say it's impossible. :-) We need SSL to work across software packages, security is paramount. Any help from anyone or the devs, let me know. Again, this is a SSL WPMU install. Ramoonus on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu/page/2#post-37809 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:17:43 +0000 Ramoonus 37809@http://bbpress.org/forums/ version 1.0 has been released several minutes ago! Detective on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu/page/2#post-37738 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:59:48 +0000 Detective 37738@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Now I get an odd behavior: - if the user logs in inside WP, he appears logged in in both WP and BB, but he can't post in BB. If he has admin rights, he can't see bb-admin. - if the user logs in inside BB, everything works ok in both WP and BB. So I redirected all logins to BB. In mu-plugins I added the following: <pre><code>function rk_login_redirect() { if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'wp-login.php') !== false && $_GET['action'] != 'logout' ) { $url = 'http://foros.ryuuko.cl/bb-login.php'; $redirect = urlencode(wp_get_referer()); $url = add_query_arg('redirect_to', $redirect, $url); wp_redirect($url); } } add_action('init', 'rk_login_redirect');</code></pre> In a plugin in my-plugins I added: <pre><code>add_filter('wp_redirect', 'rk_redirect_location'); function rk_redirect_location($location, $status = 302) { $arr = array(); $ref = wp_get_referer(); $url_array = parse_url($ref); parse_str($url_array['query'], $arr); if (isset($arr['redirect_to']) && !empty($arr['redirect_to'])) { $url = urldecode($arr['redirect_to']); $url_array = parse_url($url); if (strpos($url_array['host'], 'ryuuko.cl') !== false) $location = $url; } return $location; }</code></pre> nielowait on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu/page/2#post-37211 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:44:49 +0000 nielowait 37211@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Wow, this is a bit of a headache. I'm busy trying to get the integration sorted out and got along quite well (WPMU, BBPress, BuddyPress combo), although I still needed to log in twice, when my luck ran out and now I can't seem to log into bbpress. Bit annoying. I've reinstalled the whole thing, but still no luck. Trying to debug it at the moment, but it's tough going. I did come across something that needed fixing though; I'm not sure where to submit this fix, so I'm posting it here for now. The bug was this; the latest release candidate never displayed the dropdown from which one selects the keymaster during installation due to a mistake in line 2569 of bb-admin/includes/class.bb-install.php. Previously the line was; $wp_administrator_meta_key .= $this->data<a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/2">[2]</a>['form']['wordpress_mu_primary_blog_id']['value'] . '_'; which meant the meta_key it tried to query the db on looked something like this; 'wp_capabilities1_'. I changed it to: $wp_administrator_meta_key = $bbdb->escape( $bb->wp_table_prefix . $this->data<a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/2">[2]</a>['form']['wordpress_mu_primary_blog_id']['value'] . '_capabilities' ); so now the key will be 'wp_1_capabilities'. This is obviously (when you look at the code) only relevant when setting the default blog id. Hope it helps someone! ITguy on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu/page/2#post-37051 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:35:17 +0000 ITguy 37051@http://bbpress.org/forums/ John, first please enjoy your vacation. As to your question, yes I do use 'deep integration'. I have deleted the 3 groups I had that would not allow the recreation of the forums via the toggling of the 'Enable discussion forum' option. That was my only remaining problem. I was able to recreate the groups from scratch and transferred the topics and posting db entries from my backup. Everything is now working :-) I did a quick search through the BuddyPress forums about the issue you mention but have not found it. I will do it again over the weekend. Should I find it I will try any suggested fix by setting up another copy my setup (code and database) saved this morning before I deleted the problem group forums. I have a spare domain I can use just for that purpose. Should you find it please feel free to post the URL here. Thanks again for all your help, hopefully I can help you with identifying the issue you referring to for your screen casts. John James Jacoby on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu/page/2#post-37043 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:22:19 +0000 John James Jacoby 37043@http://bbpress.org/forums/ ITguy, are you using deep integration? If so, I think there's something else that needs to be done before the group forum creation will work. I ran into the same issue as you a few months back. Burt's XMLRPC check would work, but forums wouldn't get made. If memory serves me right, the XMLRPC was reincluding something that was mucking up the forum creation, but I don't recall exactly what that is at the moment, but I banged my head against it for a week, and there's a topic somewhere in the BuddyPress forums to prove it. :) I'm packing for a week long vacation tonight, and am flying all day tomorrow. I'll have my laptop and access to all my code by Wednesday night, and will be back to help support this again. In the meantime I invite you to scour buddypress.org/forums and see if you can find any of my past replies or recent topics. Check from about April or so. Getting this figured out is important to me too, as I've got a series of Integration screen casts I'm going to put together and give to the *Press sites to help answer all of the questions everyone has about integration, since it is a very popular topic and many of us spend many hours developing and supporting it. Talk soon, and good luck until then. ITguy on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-37021 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:39:21 +0000 ITguy 37021@http://bbpress.org/forums/ @chrishajer, not sure where the original instruction about the need for '$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true; ' came from, besides seeing it referenced in all BB and ppB integration instructions, I came across it first on the BuddyPress.org site's 'Installing and setting up bp-forums' article (step 11). The URL is <http://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-forums/installation-readme.txt>. ITguy on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-37018 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:11:26 +0000 ITguy 37018@http://bbpress.org/forums/ John, XML-RPC is (was) turned on in both WPMU/BP and bbP. Also '$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;' is (and always was) at the end of the bb-config file just before the closing PHP statement. I even check again that XML-RPC was working properly via Burt's XML-RPC-sayhello plugin. Sam, taking your note 'about re-applying the role map does not change the roles users already have', I applied John's suggestion to 'purge the bb_capabilities and apply the role map once everything is lined up'. The end result is the same, user switching works, admin has the correct bb_capabilities in the wp_usermeta table (no need this time for manual correction), and all users can create new groups with forums, add topics and relies to all discussions. The ONLY thing still not working is the recreation (activation) of old exiting groups with forums that exited before upgrading from BP 1.0 to 1,0,1 and bbP 1.0-Alpha-6 to 1.0-RC2. I guess I have to delete them and create them as new groups. I should be able to export the topics and replies first and import them after the creation, unless one of you has another suggestion. Regardless, thanks to both of you for all the help so far. chrishajer on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-37014 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:37:09 +0000 chrishajer 37014@http://bbpress.org/forums/ @johnjamesjacoby - where does this bit of info come from: <code>$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;</code> I've never installed WMPU or BuddyPress, so maybe it's in the instructions or a config file already, but I've seen it referred to here a couple times and wonder where it comes from. Thanks. John James Jacoby on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-37005 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:29:43 +0000 John James Jacoby 37005@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Tis true. I usually purge the bb_capabilities and apply the role map once everything is lined up, even though it's like rinsing the dishes and then washing them in the machine. ITguy, couple of things to check RE-buddypress. XML-RPC is turned on in both WP and BBP? Also, don't forget to put <code>$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;</code> somewhere near the end of your bb-config.php file. That will make sure that xmlrpc can switch to your keymaster user to communicate back and forth between the two installs. Sam Bauers on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-37002 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:38:45 +0000 Sam Bauers 37002@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Just a note in passing... re-applying the role map doesn't change the roles of any users that already have a role. ITguy on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36991 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:08:35 +0000 ITguy 36991@http://bbpress.org/forums/ John, Yes, I did so (refreshing the User Role map), especially when I detected that the bb_ entries in the wp_usermeta table related to the user capabilities were 'a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;}'. It did not make a difference. I had to do it manually changing user id's role to 'keymaster'. John James Jacoby on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36990 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:02:44 +0000 John James Jacoby 36990@http://bbpress.org/forums/ ITguy, did you remember to do the user-role mapping in your bbPress WordPress integration after you had everything all lined up? I read through your above steps twice and didn't see it there except for in step 3 before everything was working, but I did also just wake up from a pretty epic nap. :) ITguy on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36989 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:59:46 +0000 ITguy 36989@http://bbpress.org/forums/ John, I took a look at the bb_ entries in the wp_usermeta table and noticed that all entries related to the user capabilities were 'a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;}'. This is rather odd since user id 1 is the admin and that should be listed as KEY MASTER. SO, looking at a old data base backup of my last working version showed the entry as 'a:2:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;s:8:"throttle";b:1;}'. So I changed it to that value for id '1'. The result, everything seems to work, user integration, creation of NEW groups and forums, entering topics and replies on BOTH sites. The ONLY thing that is not working is the reactivation of my existing group discussions by toggling the 'Enable discussion forum' option in the group admin pane. I will stop here for today. Maybe you have a suggestion tomorrow. ITguy on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36984 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:28:30 +0000 ITguy 36984@http://bbpress.org/forums/ John, I came across your other posting 'Integrating WPMU trunk and bbPress RC2' and added the following to bb-press.php: <pre><code>// DEEP INTEGRATION AT THE VERY TOP // (Sam, I can see you shaking your head right now) if ( !defined('ABSPATH') & !defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST') & !defined('BB_IS_ADMIN')) { define('WP_USE_THEMES', false); include_once( '/absolute/path/to/domain.com/wp-blog-header.php' ); //unset($wp_object_cache); header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK"); header("Status: 200 All rosy") ; } ' and ' // WordPress database integration speedup $bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_'; $bb->wordpress_mu_primary_blog_id = 1; $bb->user_bbdb_name = ''; $bb->user_bbdb_user = ''; $bb->user_bbdb_password = ''; $bb->user_bbdb_host = ''; $bb->user_bbdb_charset = ''; $bb->user_bbdb_collate = ''; $bb->custom_user_table = ''; $bb->custom_user_meta_table = ''; // WordPress cookie integration speedup $bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://mydomain.com'; // no trailing slash $bb->wp_home = 'http://mydomain.com'; // no trailing slash $bb->cookiedomain = ''; $bb->cookiepath = '/'; $bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_HASH-FROM-FIREFOX'; $bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_HASH-FROM-FIREFOX'; $bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_HASH-FROM-FIREFOX'; $bb->admin_cookie_path = '/SUB-DIRECTORY/bb-admin'; $bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/MY-SUB-DIRECTORY/bb-plugins'; $bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/MY-SUB-DIRECTORY/my-plugins'; $bb->sitecookiepath = ''; $bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/wp-admin'; $bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/wp-content/plugins'; define('WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION', 1);</code></pre> The result being the user integration is working, HOWEVER admin no longer is recognized as 'KEY MASTER' nor does it know about my second bbPress user I created as administrator to be used as the user in WPMU's Forum integration. Using the admin as that user did not solve the problem either of being able post or create topics/groups. It seems that I either get partial data integration or user integration but not both. What a mess. BTW, I have working without any problem WPMU 2.7.1 and BudyPress 1.0.1. Trying to integrate bbPress 1.0-RC2. I had originally working WPMU 2.7.1, BuddyPress 1.0 and bbPress 1.0-Alpha-6. I should have left things alone. ITguy on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36980 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:03:16 +0000 ITguy 36980@http://bbpress.org/forums/ John, this were I ended up: 1. Log in as admin to bbPress and went to admin->settings 2. Enabled 'bbPress XML-RPC publishing protocol' in the 'Writing pane' 3. In the 'WordPress Integration' pane set WordPress Administrator' to 'bbPress Key Master' role. All others to 'bbPress meber' and saved the User Role map. 4. added: define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', ''); define('COOKIEPATH', '/'); define('COOKIEHASH', 'e6bd245d6e82566f2fdcff73419dd3da' ); to both wp-config and bb-config files 5. Copied the 7 unique authentification keys from the wp-config file to the bb-config file adding 'BB_' in from of each variable name. 6. Added to the end of the bb-config file, just be the closing php code: $bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true; Saved bb-config.sys 7. Moved buddypress-enable.php file to the my-plugins folder under the forums folder and activated it. 8. In the WPMU admin pane selected the BuddyPress->Forums Setup and enter the forum URL, as well as the WPPU admin name and password. 9. Logout of BuddyPress and bbPress. Logged in to BuddyPress, changed URL to forum, needed to log in, however changing back and forth between the two now needs no further logging in. 10. Created a new group on the Buddypress site with 'Enable discussion forum' selected. Forum is created and visible on the bbPress site. 11. Enter a topic and comment, bot show up on both sites. END of good news. Here is what is not working: 1. No user integration, only admin works, any other WPMU user is not recognized on the bbPress site. 2. Existing group's discussion are not creating forums when toggling the 'Enable discussion forum' option. 3. Only admin can create topics and comments within the group forums (due to problem <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1">#1</a>). I have done this now 3 times over, reinstalling bbPress (deleting the forum folder, the bb_ tables and bb_ entries in the wp_usermeta) and following the steps above which is a combination of your 'Forum Integration: Helpful Hints' posting and the added steps regarding the cookie integration posted on 'The Easy Button' and the 'UMW Wiki'. I not sure what to do next to get this right :-( John James Jacoby on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36967 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:09:00 +0000 John James Jacoby 36967@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Phew! haha! I'll be around if you have other problems. ITguy on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36966 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:01:27 +0000 ITguy 36966@http://bbpress.org/forums/ THANK! That did the trick :-) Will let you know how the rest of the integration goes. John James Jacoby on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36965 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:50:39 +0000 John James Jacoby 36965@http://bbpress.org/forums/ If your bbPress installation is malfunctioning (or incomplete) go ahead and delete all of those out of there, as they will only get in the way. Delete those entries, delete cookies, and give the install another try. I think this is the same issue I had, with the user_id of "0". The other odd thing to note, is that all of those say "member" instead of "key master". ITguy on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36964 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:43:34 +0000 ITguy 36964@http://bbpress.org/forums/ @johnjamesjacoby, thanks for yoyr quick response and offer to help. I found the following bb_ entries in the wp_usermeta table: <pre><code>umeta_id user_id meta_key meta_value 14 1 bb_capabilities a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;} 16 0 bb_capabilities a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;} 24 2 bb_capabilities a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;} 55 3 bb_capabilities a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;} 75 4 bb_capabilities a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;} 102 5 bb_capabilities a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;} 112 1 bb_topics_replied 1 17 1 bb_user_settings m0=o&m1=o 18 1 bb_user_settings_time 1243961396</code></pre> The only odd entry may be the one for user id '0' since there is no entry for that user id in the wp-users table. John James Jacoby on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36963 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:21:25 +0000 John James Jacoby 36963@http://bbpress.org/forums/ ITguy... How comfortable are you with phpMyAdmin? The NEXT thing to try, will be to look in your wp_usermeta table, and see if there are any "bb_" entries in there. Could be some corrupt capabilities in there that are causing headaches? I'll be around for a few more hours so if you've got time to go back and forth I'll keep checking back periodically. ITguy on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36961 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:16:09 +0000 ITguy 36961@http://bbpress.org/forums/ @johnjamesjacoby, I have the same setup and problem as hempsworth. I have repeated the install process now 10 times, same error. I deleted the forum folder (bbpress) deleted the database tables and deleted the cookies. I even tried a different user name instead of 'admin', same error. And just for fun I also used a different browser, same error :-( John James Jacoby on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36958 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:37:13 +0000 John James Jacoby 36958@http://bbpress.org/forums/ @hempsworth, I ran into this error myself, but eventually, it seemed to go away after uninstalling bbPress (delete files AND database tables starting with bb_), deleting cookies, and starting over. See <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/integrating-wpmu-trunk-and-bbpress-rc2#post-36959">my post</a> in the other WPMU integration topic and see if any of those settings help you? Hempsworth on "bbPress Integration plugin for WPMU" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-plugin-for-wpmu#post-36870 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:26:58 +0000 Hempsworth 36870@http://bbpress.org/forums/ What are the current installation instructions for bbPress and WPMU? Using the RC2 of bbPress, and the current trunk revision of WPMU, I go through the install and add the secret keys etc, define the primary blog (1), and get to the end but it asks me to create an admin account - it always used to use 'admin'. Am I doing something wrong? When I use the username 'admin' it brings an error that the user already exists....