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bbPress Installation Error (Integration with WordPress)

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    Hello,

    I am trying to install bbPress onto the same Database I have installed WordPress. But I keep getting an error (see below).

    As far as I'm aware I have filled in the appropriate config.php information. With the same information that I've got on the WordPress wd_config.php.

    But still no luck. Both WordPress and bbPress have been downloaded from the official websites merely a few days back.

    Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in /home/.stinkybutt/vault21/ibnmuslim.com/abdi/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

    Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/.stinkybutt/vault21/ibnmuslim.com/abdi/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

    I really do appreciate any and all help with regards to this matter.

    Kindest regards
    Hisham

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    You need this http://trac.bbpress.org/attachment/ticket/745/745c.diff
    and don't use unix socket.

    If you have to use unix socket, read http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cannot-select-db-error?replies=11#post-12434

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    Thank you so much for your response livibetter, but I'm not getting this at all. I'm not a programmer/coder by any stretch of the imagination. My abilities go no further than copy & pasting code.

    With regards to Unix sockets, I'm on a Dreamhost hosting package if that helps at all.

    Can you please tell me how the trac thing work?

    Thank you again.

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    This has now been fixed. Again, thank you livibetter.

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    Can someone actually explain what the solution was? I am getting the same error.

    • Posted 4 years ago #

    Recent discussion indicates r971 could be a temporary good solution.
    Go to the bottom http://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk?rev=971
    Download the ZIP, and use it to upgrade

    I am not sure if it will touch you database or not, anyway backup is a good habit.

    Please tell us if this works or not.

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