config-sample.php says:
// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.
$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_'; // Only letters, numbers and underscores
I do want to have multiple forums in a single database.
Why do I need to change it from bb_?
What would be intelligent to change it to?
Duh?
Thanks
You could prefix the first install "bb1_" an the second "bb2_" (you get the idea)...
Whatever makes sense to you, there is no guideline.
...you need to change them unless you want the same data in each installation.
So I should list
$bb_table_prefix = 'bb1_';
$bb_table_prefix = 'bb2_';
$bb_table_prefix = 'bb3_';
?
(I don't understand how the program would determine which prefix to apply to which forum.)
"what makes sense to me"
Ok, so I might use, for example:
$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_installation_';
$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_plugins_';
...
Does "each installation" refer to multiple forums or multiple what?
Do I need to install something more than once?
Thank you.
If you want multiple forums, you need to do multiple installations, and each bbPress installation will be in a directory of its own, and the config.php in each individual directory should have a unique table prefix, as Sam suggested, like bb1_, bb2_.
In that case, each forum would be access with a different URL as well.
Maybe your site is at http://www.website.com . A normal bbPress installation would be in something like http://www.website.com/forums/ or http://www.website.com/bbpress/ . To have multiple forums, you would access them like this:
http://www.website.com/forum1/
http://www.website.com/forum2/
http://www.website.com/forum3/
or
http://www.website.com/football/
http://www.website.com/baseball/
http://www.website.com/hockey/
and the associated directories on the server would be
/var/www/htdocs/yourname/football/
/var/www/htdocs/yourname/baseball/
/var/www/htdocs/yourname/hockey/
If you just want multiple forums or subforums in your bbPress installation, you just need to install one time, then set up the forums/subforums within bbPress. You don't need multiple forum installations.
If you are going to do something like bb_installation_ and bb_plugins_, it sounds like you want subforums. You would have one installation in a directory like /forums/ then you create subforums in your admin panel.
You would NOT create multiple $bb_table_prefix = lines - that wouldn't work.
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