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• Started 2 years ago by piedpiper21
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I can install, just not where I want to!

1. • 
   • piedpiper21
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-done-but-forum-doesnt-show-up

   I'm facing exactly the same problem as he is. That is, I get a Page Not Found error when I access the link I told it to install to. I would like my forums to be installed at http://roadtoanimation.com/forums/, but bbpress seems to insist I install on /forums/bbpress.

   He says that renaming his installation folder (this is the bbpress folder that you upload right?) worked for him. However, I've tried different ways of applying that with no results.

   1. I tried installing it in /forums and then renamed the directory after installing.
   2. I tried installing it in /bbpress and then put in the forum link as roadtoanimation.com/forums/ in Step 3.

   Any ideas?
2. • 
   • Ashfame
   • Moderator

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   To have forums in sub-directory, upload the bbPress folder to your root, rename it and then install. You should be fine this way.
3. • 
   • piedpiper21
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   By root, do you mean my public_html folder? If so, I've already tried that.
4. • 
   • chrishajer
   • Moderator

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   At your web host, you already installed WordPress. So, if you're using FTP, download bbPress to your desktop, then unzip it. It will be unzipped into a folder called bbpress. Rename that to forums on your desktop. Now, upload that whole folder to your web host, putting it into the same place where the folders wp-content, wp-includes and wp-admin are right now. If you do a directory listing there, you will have these directories now:

   forums
   wp-admin
   wp-content
   wp-includes

   Now, go to http://roadtoanimation.com/forums/ and you should see your forum installation. If you've already started the installation in another directory, you might need to get rid of some tables in the database.
5. • 
   • piedpiper21
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Okay, let me rephrase. I want to install my forum on roadtoanimation.com/forums/

   When I upload the forums to the /forums directory, I can install bbPress. However, during the installation it insists that the link be roadtoanimation.com/forums/bbpress/. If I try to modify the address during installation, I get the Page Not Found error later on.

   How can I install it so that my forums appear on roadtoanimation.com/forums/ ?

   Edit: Yes Chrishajer, I followed that earlier on. The problem is that the assigned URL becomes roadtoanimation.com/forums/bbscript. How do I remove that /bbscript from it?
6. • 
   • piedpiper21
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Newbie error. There was an extra directory level in the unzipped folder. *slaps forehead*

   Thanks for your help!

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