Hi everyone, I've just had one hell of a night trying to figure out this bbP/wP integration stuff. Eventually, I thought I'd do a clean test install and work from there to see if I could isolate the issue, so I installed:
BBpress 0.7.3
WordPress 2.0.5
on
Apache 2.0.59
mySQL 5.0.19
PHP 4.4.4
via MAMP on Mac OS 10.4.8
with WP in root and BBpress as subdirectory "discussions".
I then configured wp-config.php and config.php like so:
<?php
define('DB_NAME', 'database');
define('DB_USER', 'root');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'root');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost:8889');
$table_prefix = 'wp_';
define ('WPLANG', '');
define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
?>
and
<?php
require_once(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/wp-config.php');
define('BBDB_NAME', 'database');
define('BBDB_USER', 'root');
define('BBDB_PASSWORD', 'root');
define('BBDB_HOST', 'localhost:8889');
$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_';
$bb->domain = 'http://192.168.0.149:8888';
$bb->path = '/discussions/';
$bb->name = 'the Forum';
$bb->admin_email = 'email@email.com';
$bb->mod_rewrite = false;
$bb->page_topics = 30;
$bb->edit_lock = 60;
$bb->gmt_offset = -8;
define('BBLANG', '');
$bb->akismet_key = '***********';
$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';
$bb->wp_home = 'http://192.168.0.149:8888';
$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://192.168.0.149:8888';
define('BBPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );
require_once( BBPATH . 'bb-settings.php' );
?>
(the 8888/9 ports are MAMP defaults; 192.168.0.149 is the LAN IP of the computer I'm running this on)
Then I ran the install scripts, and lo and behold, everything seemed to be working great. Then I began to add plugins one by one, and, to make a long story short, found that:
Whenever the Sidebar Widgets plugin was activated along with a separate widget (including those included with it, del.icio.us and google, as well as akismet, which has a widget built-in), trying to load a BBpress page would yield a blank page. However, if Sidebar Widgets was activated but no widget plugins were, it would work fine--I could even use the integrated widgets (RSS, categories, calendar, etc) on the blog. Likewise, if Sidebar Widgets is deactivated, but all the widgets are activated, it still works fine.
Also: the Front Page Topics plug-in for bbPress, regardless of any other plugins in wP or bbP, yields a similar blank page on posting a new reply, starting a new topic, making a new forum, or logging out. If I go back and refresh, the topic/reply/forum HAS been created... but the logout attempt is UNsuccessful. Like I said, I tried this with no bb or wp plugins, as well as a variety of them, and its always the same result.
Ok, its 4:15 in the morning, I have class at 8 and I'm going to go pass out, but hopefully this is enough information for someone to tell me what gives...
Thanks for reading/any help.
-G