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user_nicename error on installtion

  • error:

    Duplicate key name ‘user_nicename’

    >>> User tables will already exist when performing a database integrated installation.

    Forum could not be created!

    and

    Step 1 – Creating database tables

    >>> Create table bb_forums

    >>> Create table bb_posts

    >>> Create table bb_topics

    >>> Create table bb_topicmeta

    >>> Create table bb_tags

    >>> Create table bb_tagged

    >>> Added index wp_users UNIQUE KEY user_nicename (user_nicename)

    >>>

    >>>>>> Duplicate key name ‘user_nicename’

    How can I fix this?

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  • What version of bbPress are you installing?

    If you go to your bbPress site, does it work (even though the installer said it failed)?

    I think there may be a bug in the bbPress installer such that if you want to integrate the user database, you must also check the cookie integration checkbox.

    I’m having this same problem. Fresh installation using version 0.9.0.2.

    Referrer is OK, beginning installation…
    >>> Setting up custom user table constants

    Step 1 - Creating database tables
    >>> Create table bb_forums
    >>> Create table bb_posts
    >>> Create table bb_topics
    >>> Create table bb_topicmeta
    >>> Create table bb_tags
    >>> Create table bb_tagged
    >>> Added index wp_users UNIQUE KEY user_nicename (user_nicename)
    >>>
    >>>>>> Duplicate key name 'user_nicename'

    Step 2 - WordPress integration (optional)
    >>> WordPress address (URL): MYURL
    >>> Blog address (URL): MYURL
    >>> WordPress cookie secret key set.
    >>> WordPress database secret set.
    >>> User database table prefix: wp_

    Step 3 - Site settings
    >>> Site name: MYSITENAME
    >>> Site address (URL): MYURL
    >>> From email address: MYEMAIL
    >>> Key master role assigned to existing user
    >>>>>> Username: admin
    >>>>>> Email address: MYEMAIL
    >>>>>> Password: Your existing password
    >>> Description: Just another bbPress community
    >>> Forum could not be created!
    >>> Key master email sent

    There were some errors encountered during installation!

    I should note that I assigned the key master as my admin user in WordPress. When I go to my forum I receive the following error….

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /MYPATH/bb-config.php on line 22

    Check your BB_SECRET_KEY value. Mine (taken from the WP SECRET_KEY value ended with a backslash, which effectively escaped the end quote. Changing it to \ escaped the escape (if you see what I mean). I then went back and installed okay.

    This seems to be a problem with the install files. I have tried four different installations now, and integration causes the error with “user_nicename” in the wp_user table regardless of the correctness of all the other information (secret key, et al).

    First run will produce the user_nicename error as well as the ‘Forum could not be created’ error. Second run will still produce the user_nicename error, but not ‘Forum could not be created’ – after the second run, the forum is installed and accessible… but cross-platform (wp -> bbp -> wp) cookie-based login is broken. Logging into the forum kicks the user off of the blog and vice versa.

    I’m beating my head against a wall with this one. Anyone have any ideas?

    Thanks for any help you can offer.

    I guess it’s a problem with the install wizard. I was able to get cookie-based cross-platform login going by performing a clean install without running the integration during install.

    1. Perform a clean, standalone install and log in with the provided admin login.

    2. Go to Settings . WordPress Integration – Input the blog URL twice, enter the blog ‘secret’ from [blog_url]/wp-admin/options.php, and enter the blog prefix.

    3. Update the blog wp-config.php with the two lines suggested by WordPress Integration Settings page, and you should be in business.

    Hope this helps someone else out there.

    Used WP 2.5 & 2.5.1 – bbPress 0.9.0.2

    Thanks timjamz, that definitely worked as I was also having the same issues. I was stuck on this issue for weeks.

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