http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Topic: Local Installation, Can't Activate Plugins en Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:45:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/local-installation-cant-activate-plugins#post-14718 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:59:37 +0000 djquinn 14718@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I'm working with a local fresh install of bbpress and I can't activate any plugins. (Whenever I click Activate, it says "Are you sure you want to do this?" and seems to be adding an extra backslash in the URL whenever I click YES). If I manually put the URL to activate into the browser without the extra backslash, bbpress spits out a fatal error and doesn't activate the plugin. I've got bbpress working on my web server with all of the plugins, so it's a problem with the local installation. </p> <p>The local server is Apache and my config.php looks like this:<br /> $bb-&gt;uri = 'http://localhost/cindyfish';<br /> $bb-&gt;mod_rewrite = false;<br /> (database is working fine, I can click all links in the forum)</p> <p>I tried changing the uri to just <a href="http://localhost/," rel="nofollow">http://localhost/,</a> but then I can't access the admin panel. </p> <p>The only edit I made to the core was to modify:<br /> $activetheme = bb_get_option('bb_active_theme');<br /> to<br /> $activetheme = stripslashes(bb_get_option('bb_active_theme'));</p> <p>as instructed in this post:<br /> <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/theme-not-found-default-theme-applied#post-8889" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/theme-not-found-default-theme-applied#post-8889</a></p> <p>...so I could get my custom theme recognized.</p> <p>Any ideas?</p> <p>EDIT: Actually, I CAN activate plugins if I manually paste the URL into the browser and remove the extra backslashes; it failed on the path to url plugin by nanome (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/updated-to-desmond-but-theme-not-working/page/2)... would be nice tho to create a hack that could fix this for local installations on Windows</p> <p>EDIT2: Okay, it also seems that bbpress adds the extra backslash only if the plugins are in individual folders. For plugins that sit just in the my-plugins folder, the local installation can activate them fine. Otherwise they have to be linked manually. </p>