Topic: Install doesn’t work with bbPress on WordPress 2.5 site

Install doesn’t work with bbPress on WordPress 2.5 site

@psheerin

Member

16 years, 8 months ago

I’ve uploaded the bbPress files to example.com/forum/ and WordPress 2.5 is installed in example.com/WordPress/ with the actual public blog up one level at example.com/

When I go visit example.com/forum/ or even example.com/forum/admin/install.php all I get is a blank post from the WP site that reads “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.”

What do I need to change in order to make the installation run?

WordPress created this .htaccess file and placed it in webroot, and I’m guessing this is the problem:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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@chrishajer

Participant

16 years, 8 months ago

Why isn’t bbpress installed in a subdirectory of WordPress (that’s easiest for integration)?

And what does this mean exactly:

> WordPress 2.5 is installed in example.com/WordPress/

> with the actual public blog up one level at example.com/

Do you have two blogs, one or both of them WordPress?

@psheerin

Member

16 years, 8 months ago

I installed bbPress in http://paara.org/forum/ because that’s what I wanted the URL of the forum to be, and the installation instructions didn’t indicate any preference for where.

Just one blog, with the WP files at http://paara.org/WordPress/ but with the public URL being simply http://paara.org/, as described in https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

And after moving the bbPress directories to http://paara.org/WordPress/bbPress/, I still can’t get the install to run, or anything but the “no content” message to appear.

What am I missing?

@psheerin

Member

16 years, 8 months ago

OK, I found the problem. I had jumped ahead and installed the .htaccess file for pretty permalinks. This prevented the installer from running.

But now I’ve got an ugly long URL because I installed it under ../WordPress/

How do I reconfigure bbPress so that I can make the forum

http://www.paara.org/forum/

instead of

http://www.paara.org/WordPress/bbPress/

?

@marcoz

Member

16 years, 8 months ago

Hi!

I’m in a similar situation. However my WordPress files are simply at http://www.marcozehe.de, and I would like bbPress to be in http://www.marcozehe.de/forum. How do I do that? I don’t mean simply creating the directory and copying the files there, but configuring things correctly so WordPress doesn’t consider the /forum folder to be one of its kind.

Thanks,

Marco

@chrishajer

Participant

16 years, 8 months ago

MarcoZ: that is perfectly fine as you are describing it. WordPress in the root of the domain, bbPress in a folder. You do create a directory called forum and copy the files there.

If you are not including WordPress in your bbPress, then you won’t need this plugin to correct the WordPress 404 errors:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load#post-13156

Try your installation without that plugin first.

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