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help, comments link to bbpress now, not comments!

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I flawlessly installed bbPress yesterday to have a forum to go along with my website: http://iphonecustoms.com. However, on all my posts and pages, I have a "Leave a comment" option towards the end, and it either links to my forum.. or nothing at all!! Can someone help? I just would like my comments option back. :(

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    It looks like those links are pointing here:
    a href="http://iphonecustoms.com/http:/iphonecustoms.com/forums/#respond"

    Did something change with your WordPress Address URL here?
    http://iphonecustoms.com/wp-admin/options-general.php

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    yes... my links are pointing there... and I do not know why! And on this page:

    http://iphonecustoms.com/written-tutorials/iphone-3g/how-to-jailbreak-w-redsn0w-on-windows

    The comment link just keeps you on the same page but adds a "/#comments" to the end of the URL? I checked Options page, and nothing has changed.. nor does it look like any of those options would change the situation? Here are my options:

    Blog Title
    Tagline
    WordPress address (URL)
    Blog address (URL)
    E-mail address
    Membership
    New User Default Role
    Timezone
    Date Format
    Week Starts On

    any suggestions? thank you so much for your reply.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    What is listed under WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL)?

    Also - what code in your WordPress template are you using to generate those comment links?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL) are both set to http://iphonecustoms.com.

    I fixed the "Leave a Comment" links that were linking to my forum by changing the settings in Settings>Permalinks to "default". (It had been set to iphonecustoms.com/forums/ somehow.)

    So the comments on my homepage actually work now... however on all my other pages, my "Leave a comment" links are still not doing anything. The comment links came built in with my "Black Splat" theme, and I tried to replace comment.php from original theme and still nothing happened.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Maybe try posting to the WordPress forums? :-)

    Unless there's a connection to the bbPress install that I'm missing...

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Thanks, I will. It was after I installed bbPress that this started to happen...

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Hmm, maybe post the code to the part of the template where the problems are occurring? We can look for potential conflicts with bbPress code...

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I am not sure how to determine that :(

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Just did some research for ya - looks like this issue can be caused sometimes by problems with htaccess files:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/243002

    Is it possible that when installing bbpress, the htaccess file was changed and that caused some of these issues?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    But thank you for your time!

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    OH, let me check that out... thanks!!!

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    With the setup you describe, I think you have bbpress as a subfolder under your WP install, and I'm not sure that's a good idea. But I have no proof. I always suggest having WP in a non root folder, due to htaccess weirdness.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    i have all my WP contents installed in my root and also a folder called "forums" under my root... what should I do?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Ipstenu - I have always installed bbPress and WordPress together like this, without a problem:

    /var/www/example/wordpress/
    accessible here http://www.example.com/

    /var/www/example/wordpress/bbpress/
    accessible here http://www.example.com/bbpress/

    Are you suggesting NOT to install it like that?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    chrishajer - Not exactly.

    I NEVER put WP in the root, after (in the 1.* days) it pitched a hissy fit with another web app over permalinks and htaccess. And since you can run WP out of root while having it in a subfolder, and no one can tell the difference, it works rather well.

    I have this:

    /var/www/example/index.php <which points to the wordpress folder>
/var/www/example/wordpress/<wordpress files>

    accessible here http://www.example.com/ and here http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-admin

    /var/www/example/bbpress/
    accessible here http://www.example.com/bbpress/

    With this, once I got my auth keys in order, it worked fine. I'm not saying it can't be done your way (and hey, if it works, leave it alone! :) ), I'm just saying that I've seen it cause more headaches.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Right, that works fine too. It wasn't so much about bbPress but about running WordPress in a different folder than the webroot. Got it.

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