Hmmm: I don’t get one of those messages as keymaster in my forum. I am still running an older version. Is that notification built in to a specific version or is that a plugin that notifies you of new registrations? Can you post the text of one of those messages please?
> the desire to reduce the amount of support traffic
That’s the best reason right there. Convert to a front controller, mod_rewrite and create the rewrite rules automagically, like WordPress, and 1/3 of the posts on this forum would never have happened.
I just registered at your forum, and I received a well formed email. I have no idea what you’re talking about. Did you receive an email regarding my registration at the same time?
If you are receiving these bounce messages, how would anyone ever get their password to log in?
The email was from fbw (at) forums blogs wikis (dot) com (no spaces, the From: was well-formed.)
/confused
Sounds like you need authorization before accessing the board, rather than leaving the board open to anyone who happens to run across it. If it’s publicly accessible, you might want to do something like require authorization to even load the board. You don’t want staff waiting for you to approve their registration and you don’t want people accessing the board if it’s not for their eyes.
If you’re on an Apache web server, you want to look up “basic auth”, .htpasswd and .htaccess if you want to do this.
HowToGeek: I wonder if that’s really true. I’d like to believe it is, but I wonder if there are really hosts that allow the MultiViews directive in an .htaccess file, but don’t allow mod_rewrite. I’d like to believe it’s true so that MultiViews goes away and bbPress gets proper rewriting via mod_rewrite, the sooner the better. And have bbPress generate the rewrite rules then create or edit the .htaccess file automatically, just like WordPress, while you’re at it.
First, I think I would use a tool like phpMyAdmin to look at the database and see if the old tables and old posts are there. Maybe you just have something like a different table prefix in your new installation so it’s not seeing the old installation any more?
Do you have direct access to the database to look and see what tables are present, then, what’s in the bb_posts table (or any other *_posts tables)?
Good luck to you. I replied to your other post about removing it from your system.
I think it is. The only issue is if you had an integrated install, then you would have bbPress users in your wp_users and wp_usermeta table. You would probably have to manually remove those entries from those tables. Don’t drop the wp_ tables, just the bb_tables.
I think that’s about it. Once the code is gone from the filesystem, the database doesn’t matter much except for keeping things tidy.
<strong>like this</strong> and it will look like this. Not bbcode, HTML.
I don’t know anything about MU and how integration with bbPress and MU works.
Right, I see that you don’t have permalinks on.
Do you have access to server logs where you can see what is happening with those requests? At the very least, I should be able to log in. That makes two problems (yours and this logging in one.)
Also, what does that first rewrite rule do? Just curious, I’ve never seen it before.
How about caching? Is it possible WordPress caching is causing your trouble?
Something is definitely weird with your site. Check this URL:
http://robomilk.sirkain.net/wp-signup.php?new=bb-admin
I tried to access (which should just give a 404):
http://robomilk.sirkain.net/forum/bb-admin/index.html
and it redirected me there.
I think it’s safe to say it’s something with the host or with some existing rewrite rules in an .htaccess file or something.
Exchange of documents: use a wiki.
I registered and received my email, but I can’t log in, no message, it just refreshes the page. I would say it has something to do with the rewrite rules. I would turn off slugs or permalinks in your bb-config.php.
I just looked in my bb-config-sample.php though, and there is no mod_rewrite line in there? Weird. Not sure how to tell you to turn off pretty permalinks, but I suspect that’s the problem. That, or something in an .htaccess file that is causing weirdness.
_ck_: hear hear!
phreakymonkey: Dreamhost has what turned off, mod_rewrite or MultiViews?
Do you have access to any error logs?
How did you make it do what it’s doing now?
Why does it matter? I’m curious.
Can you describe what you are looking for exactly, I am having a hard time envisioning it. So, for example, under your “Community” forum, in addition to the description of that forum, you want to say something like “Latest post: $whatever by $whoever at $time”? For all the different forums?
Did you already follow these instructions for getting permalinks to work, in general? If permalinks at all will work, then slugs will work as well.
https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks
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?
WordPress is thinking this forum page does not exist., so WordPress throws the 404 but the page is still properly served. It happens only because you’ve included blog-header.php (a normal integrated installation wouldn’t do this).
I think this post covers it (basically, install a WordPress plugin to overcome the problem):
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load#post-13156
Spend a while reading current posts in this forum; it’s your best bet for being prepared. Other than that, it’s pretty straightforward. With integration, be sure you have the same secret key from wp-config.php in your bb-config.php. It’s pretty straightforward.
