[Daniel Quinn]

I’m working with a local fresh install of bbpress and I can’t activate any plugins. (Whenever I click Activate, it says “Are you sure you want to do this?” and seems to be adding an extra backslash in the URL whenever I click YES). If I manually put the URL to activate into the browser without the extra backslash, bbpress spits out a fatal error and doesn’t activate the plugin. I’ve got bbpress working on my web server with all of the plugins, so it’s a problem with the local installation.

The local server is Apache and my config.php looks like this:

$bb->uri = ‘http://localhost/cindyfish’;

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

(database is working fine, I can click all links in the forum)

I tried changing the uri to just http://localhost/, but then I can’t access the admin panel.

The only edit I made to the core was to modify:

$activetheme = bb_get_option(‘bb_active_theme’);

to

$activetheme = stripslashes(bb_get_option(‘bb_active_theme’));

as instructed in this post:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/theme-not-found-default-theme-applied#post-8889

…so I could get my custom theme recognized.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Actually, I CAN activate plugins if I manually paste the URL into the browser and remove the extra backslashes; it failed on the path to url plugin by nanome (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/updated-to-desmond-but-theme-not-working/page/2)… would be nice tho to create a hack that could fix this for local installations on Windows

EDIT2: Okay, it also seems that bbpress adds the extra backslash only if the plugins are in individual folders. For plugins that sit just in the my-plugins folder, the local installation can activate them fine. Otherwise they have to be linked manually.