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  • Started 3 months ago by psheerin
  • Latest reply from chrishajer
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  1. psheerin
    Member

    I've uploaded the bbPress files to example.com/forum/ and WordPress 2.5 is installed in example.com/WordPress/ with the actual public blog up one level at example.com/

    When I go visit example.com/forum/ or even example.com/forum/admin/install.php all I get is a blank post from the WP site that reads "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria."

    What do I need to change in order to make the installation run?

    WordPress created this .htaccess file and placed it in webroot, and I'm guessing this is the problem:
    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    Posted 3 months ago #

  2. chrishajer
    Moderator

    Why isn't bbpress installed in a subdirectory of WordPress (that's easiest for integration)?

    And what does this mean exactly:
    > WordPress 2.5 is installed in example.com/WordPress/
    > with the actual public blog up one level at example.com/

    Do you have two blogs, one or both of them WordPress?

    Posted 3 months ago #

  3. psheerin
    Member

    I installed bbPress in http://paara.org/forum/ because that's what I wanted the URL of the forum to be, and the installation instructions didn't indicate any preference for where.

    Just one blog, with the WP files at http://paara.org/WordPress/ but with the public URL being simply http://paara.org/, as described in http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    And after moving the bbPress directories to http://paara.org/WordPress/bbPress/, I still can't get the install to run, or anything but the "no content" message to appear.

    What am I missing?

    Posted 3 months ago #

  4. psheerin
    Member

    OK, I found the problem. I had jumped ahead and installed the .htaccess file for pretty permalinks. This prevented the installer from running.

    But now I've got an ugly long URL because I installed it under ../WordPress/

    How do I reconfigure bbPress so that I can make the forum
    http://www.paara.org/forum/
    instead of
    http://www.paara.org/WordPress/bbPress/

    ?

    Posted 3 months ago #

  5. MarcoZ
    Member

    Hi!
    I'm in a similar situation. However my WordPress files are simply at www.marcozehe.de, and I would like bbPress to be in www.marcozehe.de/forum. How do I do that? I don't mean simply creating the directory and copying the files there, but configuring things correctly so WordPress doesn't consider the /forum folder to be one of its kind.

    Thanks,
    Marco

    Posted 2 months ago #

  6. chrishajer
    Moderator

    MarcoZ: that is perfectly fine as you are describing it. WordPress in the root of the domain, bbPress in a folder. You do create a directory called forum and copy the files there.

    If you are not including WordPress in your bbPress, then you won't need this plugin to correct the WordPress 404 errors:
    http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load#post-13156

    Try your installation without that plugin first.

    Posted 2 months ago #

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