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Deep integration? Google might not be indexing your forum pages

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    [Opening a new thread with a more descriptive title. The old one was here: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-404-error-but-page-displays

    I have bbPress 1.0.2 and WPMU 2.8.4a with deep integration. Forum pages load fine in the browser, but they have a 404 status in the header, which causes a googlebot crawl error. If you have deep integration, this might be true for you too. You can use Firebug or http://web-sniffer.net/ to check.

    I have posted my understanding of the problem and a workaround on the WPMU forums: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14425?replies=1#post-83354

    I think this issue will stop Google (and other search engines) from indexing your forum pages. So if you are using deep integration it might be a good idea to watch for a patch.

    Use my little workaround at at your own risk.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Hmmm. They say talking to oneself is one of the first signs of insanity...

    I just found a year old thread on this topic: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load?replies=7#post-14899

    So I have a couple of questions for anyone out there:

    1. Aside from the ugliness of a core hack, is there any reason my workaround is a bad idea?
    2. Has anyone produced a plugin that implements Beau's idea in the thread above?

    Sounds like there are a lot of people with deep integration, so I find it really strange that this is still a problem in WPMU 2.8.4a / bbPress 1.0.2.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Which pages are you getting the 404 header on? I just crawled my local copy quickly with firebug and was getting 200's across the board. I'm probably missing a few of the pages though, I just loaded it up and started clicking away. :)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    All of them. Any bbPress page.

    What versions of bbPress and WPMU are you running? Do you have BuddyPress installed?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    ยต 2.8.4a and bbPress 1.0.2, no buddyPress, I'm afraid that bug has yet to bite me. Maybe that narrows down the cause though?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    And it definitely is *deep* integration, right?

    If so, how do you do the deep integration - are you calling 'wp-blog-header.php' from 'bb-config.php'?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    It's deep, I can access and use all my WordPress functionality. Afaik using wp-blog-header.php is deprecated for that use, I've been calling wp-load.php.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    delayedinsanity, you beauty. As far as I can see, this is the problem. I switched to using wp-load.php and the status in the header is 202 without my hack. What's more, it corrects this issue:

    http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wpmu-284a-deep-integration-breaks-rss-feed

    Many thanks.

    So to sum it up. I was previously doing the following in bb-config.php for deep integration:

    require_once('/var/www/vhosts/youlookfab.com/httpdocs/wp-blog-header.php');

    But it broke RSS feeds and put 404 headers in my forum pages. The following seems to solve both issues:

    require_once('/var/www/vhosts/youlookfab.com/httpdocs/wp-load.php');

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Resolved.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Is there a way to fix this without switching the include to wp-load.php?

    I'm also running Buddypress and the "Buddybar for bbpress" plugin. Changing the include from wp-blog-header.php to wp-load.php seems to break the "My Account" menu in the admin bar. It seems that switching to wp-load.php makes the bbpress end unable to read $bp->bp_nav, which causes the "My Account" not to appear.

    I'm running WPMU 2.8.4a, Buddypress 1.0.3, and bbPress 1.0.2.

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