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Hello,

This is my first bat at installing BBpress. I’m looking forward to playing with it if I can figure out what’s wrong with it. Can someone help me troubleshoot here? I think I read somewhere on the forums that someone had a similar issue but I can’t find that post again.

So first of all I’m integrating it a previous wordpress installation. I put everything in a subdirectory called /forums/. For the database info in the config file I put all of the same info for the wordpress install, I hope that was correct.

I have no clue what this is:

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”);

So I left it blank, is that correct?

Lastly, at the bottom I entered this:

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.airshipleague.com/forums’;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.airshipleague.com’;

Is this correct??? I’m not sure what the difference between _home and _siteurl is. I’m assuming that home is where I want the forums to go and the url is the domain of the site as a whole…But that’s totally guesswork. A lot of this database stuff is greek to me.

So I uploaded everything and went to install it and would continually see the error above the install wizard:

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/usr/local/mysql-5.0/data/mysql.sock’ (2) in /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php:80) in /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-admin/install.php on line 10

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php:80) in /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/functions.php on line 1898

I figured I would try and install anyways crossing my fingers it would disappear. The install completed and sent me a confirmation email. When I logged on for the first time above the forums it says:

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/usr/local/mysql-5.0/data/mysql.sock’ (2) in /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/content/o/p/e/openartist/html/airshipleague/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

If I try and log in it will hang and nothing will happen. If I refresh it will bring me to a login page with similar error messages hanging above.

If it matters at all I’m using Godaddy’s service which allows me to have multiple domains on a single IP, so the site is really a subfolder of my main url that airshipleague.com is forwarded to. I don’t have problems with that at all when I install wordpress though.

Many thanks for any help you can give me!