You have the wrong URI in your config.php. You have this (I think):
// The full URL of your bbPress install
$bb->uri = 'http://ironboundforum.com/forums/';
and it should be
$bb->uri = 'http://ironboundforum.com/';
bbPress doesn’t care if it’s in a folder or not, just like it doesn’t know that it’s in your webroot of /kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs/ironbound/, so that ‘forums’ portion does not need to be in the config.php for your URI.
See this after I applied the proper stylesheet:
http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/Ironbound.png
You can make that change in your 1&1 control panel. Administration > Domains > click the domain name, click the Destination [Edit] button, then select the /forums/ directory from the “Existing directory” select box. That directs all traffic destined for mysite.com to whatever website you have installed in the forums directory (which is bbPress in this case.)
That works fine if you want your bbPress installation to be the whole website mysite.com and everything is in the ‘forums’ directory. It’s the most direct way to do it, since you have the option to do it this way. It basically hides the fact that things are in a ‘forums’ directory, just like all the rest of the web server path is hidden. My full path is something like /kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs, and then each website has a subfolder there.
/kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs/chrishajer/
/kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs/forums/
/kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs/somesite/forums/
Your subfolder will be called “forums”, but people visiting your site will never know.
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Sounds like it wasn’t working at some point, and that information is cached. CTRL-SHIFT-R in Firefox will do a hard refresh. The source to the stylesheet is fine in both IE and Firefox, so it it probably something in your browser.
Here’s the path to the stylesheet from the HTML source:
http://thelifelesstraveled.com/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css
The forum has style, it has the default kakumei theme applied. Here’s what I see with Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Windows XP.
http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/tlltf.png
If you are expecting it to look like something else, maybe you need to select it in your admin panel. But there is a theme applied, the default one. That’s different than saying it has “no style”. It has the default style, not a broken path to your stylesheet or theme.
You can also contact me using any of the contact information on the website linked in my profile if you would like help resolving this off list. You will need to be willing to share the control panel log in and access to your config.php.
I would not recommend posting your connection details here. Please change your database connection details with the host if you can. I guess since they’re not working anyway there’s probably not much harm. I would change the password at least.
Here’s the problem. You can post the connection details here, but without someone having access to what the host says the connection details SHOULD be, there’s no way to verify that what you are posting here and using are correct. Only you can verify that they are identical. You can triple check the database name, username and password and verify that they’re correct, letter my letter. So, my guess is that the host is wrong. It’s trying localhost and not finding a database there by that name. So my SWAG is that you need to put a hostname there.
MySQL 4 is required, so MySQL 4.1 should be fine. That’s an interesting warning though, I don’t think I’ve seen that before. Once your forum is installed, you should probably file a trac bug on that since I don’t think the possibility of that function being disabled has been covered.
Wait, what’s this:
Warning: version_compare() has been disabled for security reasons in d:hostingarock1rockline_forumbbpressbb-includesdb-base.php on line 479
Cannot select DB.
You didn’t post the first part of that message which I received when trying to access your forum.
Do you know what version MySQL is installed? You could probably work around that. The fact that you still have a “Cannot select DB” error after the warning means there is probably still a problem with your four connection details.
What I was saying before is that no one will be able to help you without access to your server. Since you obfuscated the connection details to post them here, no one can look at them and see what’s wrong with them. Someone needs to be able to log into your control panel or host, see the database details there, then ensure that those same exact details are entered in your config.php. You don’t have a syntax error in your config.php, one of the pieces of information you’ve entered there is incorrect and only you can see what that is.
I use 1&1 without any trouble with many bbPress and WordPress installations. If you need help, just post. Every host is a little bit different, but I have 3+ years of experience with 1&1 on all types of servers.
Cheers.
How did you fix it, for the benefit of others? Was it a permalinks issue?
Remove the line where you are trying to include the wp-blog-header.php and things will work fine. What are you trying to accomplish with that?
I see you started a new thread. Please mark this one resolved. Thanks.
Sounds like the rewrite rules are not working. Start by disabling permalinks in your config.php like this:
$bb->mod_rewrite = false;
If that change allows things to work, then you know it’s a problem with permalinks on your host.
Please post the URL where the problem can be viewed.
I have a default theme just fine in Firefox and IE7 here:
http://thelifelesstraveled.com/forums/
OK – I still don’t see those actual line numbers in that release (in fact bb_settings.php has only 209 lines.) So, can you open up /home/www/web316/html/ps-t/bb-settings.php and post line 294 (maybe a couple before and after as well) and /home/www/web316/html/ps-t/bb-includes/pluggable.php and post lines 193 and 231. The code on those lines will help point the way to solving these problems.
My hunch is this is related to the glob issue and there being no underscore plugins in a bb-plugins directory. Because there are no plugins that begin with an underscore, and due to problems with the way the glob function is tested for, an error like this can occur.
You can try installing this plugin to see if it fixes your error, even though the line numbers and messages really don’t match up:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-benchmark/
I think you can also just create a bb-plugins directory in your installation root, then in it create a file called something like _nothing.php – I think that also causes this block of code to NOT fail, so you wouldn’t see these warnings.
It is an easy setup. There is something wrong with your configuration. It’s difficult for anyone here to diagnose since we won’t be able to see your actual database connection details to help.
Put it here:
/home/"mywordpressblogsname"/public_html/bbpress/
Then in config.php set bb->uri:
$bb->uri = 'http://"mywordpressblogsname"/bbpress/';
(assuming your blog is visible at http://”mywordpressblogsname”/ not http://”mywordpressblogsname”/public_html)
You can name the bbpress folder whatever you want. Sometimes people call it forums. Just be sure to change it to the same thing in config.php.
Was that a trunk release or the 0.8.3.1 release?
Also, can you look at those two files in your installation and post the code from those lines here? Maybe we can find the source of the problem even without matching up the errors in a current download by using your actual installation.
I can’t even find that string “The file is not a valid GIF, JPG/JPEG or PNG image-type” in the source. Where would that message be coming from? Is that the actual error or paraphrased? I see all the error messages in additional-files/avatar-upload.php, but that doesn’t appear to be one of them.
Screenshot of the actual error being displayed?
TJworld, did you try sambauers plugin:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-registration#post-13337
And is it just registration emails with the password people are not receiving?
There is a “Use Display Name” plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/display-name/
There was also a “Custom Profile Fields” plugin, but I don’t know if it still works or is being maintained:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-allow-additional-or-custom-profile-fields
What version of bbPress did you download? I can’t match up those line numbers at all.
Thanks for posting that _ck_.
There is no admin notification of new registrations by default. Sounds like it could be done with a plugin.
