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1. davetropeano
   Member

   I recently did my first bbpress install on localhost and it went miserably. I used the latest download from today.

   Checking on this forum I had the same path seperator issues and stylesheet issues others had, etc.

   My $bb->domain and $bb->path were fine. The fresh install just didn't work properly under xampp and then again a retry on easyPHP.

   This is the solution and findings I found:

   1. The first issue is because in config.php and bb-load.php dirname(__FILE__) is used to get the base path for BBPATH. This is not a good thing on localhost Windows based installs.

   2. There are a number of attempted workarounds to this that I've read about in this forum. All of them that I saw didn't work. Focusing on the issue with the stylesheet href not being correct I noticed that there was logic in the bb_get_active_theme_folder() function.

   By default, the installer does NOT create an option entry 'bb_active_theme' in the database table topicmeta. The code logic doesn't make the correct uri.

   To fix this, do an install and then add a database field bb_active_theme in the topicmeta table.

   For example, I set mine to:
   http://localhost/dev/bbpress/

   Playing regular expression games to change x:\ and \ in general is not worth it. This seemed to be simple and worked right out of the box.

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. Trent
   Moderator

   Thanks for the discussion! I will make sure I point mdawaffe to this thread!

   Cheers,

   Trent

   Posted 1 year ago #

3. tquizzle
   Member

   davetropeano's fix worked, although I had to dig a little to find out exactly what he was referring to.
   You dont want to create a field but rather a row in the "bb_topicmeta" table.
   I was able to check a working bbpress installation on Linux to verify the setting. I noticed that the bb_active_theme was set to use the full server path to the template folder. The below did the trick for me.

   meta_id = next available number
   topic_id = 0
   meta_key = bb_active_theme
   meta_value = /bbpress-path/bb-templates/theme-to-use/

   Save that, cross your fingers and refresh your forum.

   Posted 1 year ago #

4. mirfan
   Member

   I changed
   define( 'BBPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );
   with this:
   define( 'BBPATH', str_replace('\\', '/', realpath(dirname(__FILE__))) . '/' );
   in bb-load.php, and now it works on localhost with windows xp sp2.

   Posted 1 year ago #

5. dprice
   Member

   Cheers mirfan - your fix worked a treat! (I've got an XP install using WAMP as a server - just for testing stuff atm).

   Posted 1 year ago #

6. Omarvelous
   Member

   GREAT!! Thx!

   Posted 1 year ago #

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