They don’t have to keep getting new ones. Their password should continue to work forever.
What plugins are you using (I can see a few)?
Not from Ning to bbPress but I have heard of resources for Ning to BuddyPress:
https://buddypress.org/2010/04/helpful-resources-for-ning-users/
Using Apache Basic Auth will not show anything to a visitor who did not authenticate. Sounds like that’s what you want most.
Worst case is that someone can stumble on the URL and get the login dialog, but they won’t see any content.
It’s not that unusual. I use it in exactly this way for an intranet, using Apache basic auth (just a couple lines to be added to your .htacces file.) It won’t be hard to do and will hide everything except for the existence that there is a directory there protected with Apache basic auth.
login-less posting is a feature present in the latest trunk release. It’s not packaged for release yet, and there are some dependencies (notably BackPress). If you can download via subversion to your intranet server, that would be the best way to get it.
svn co -r2434 http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk ./forums
That will check out revision 2434 which is very stable, into a directory called forums on your server.
The revisions after that revision got a little weird with a couple problems that I am not sure are fixed yet.
Why not use Apache Basic Auth to require people to log in before getting anywhere near your forum?
Or you can use a plugin like hidden forums or zaerl visibility. You could also wrap parts of your forum output in code that checks to see if the user is logged in.
I don’t think it would be difficult.
I asked Matt 3 weeks or so ago if we should release 1.0.3 or 1.1 (and what to do with the couple patches in the 0.9 branch) and this was his response:
I don’t think we should update the 0.9 branch anymore, and probably not 1.0 either. (Same as WP.) If 1.1 is ready let’s get it out the door. 
I contacted JJJ – let’s see what happens there.
Sounds like you made it through part of the installation? Can you explain what you did and what happened?
I can commit code. You can look through the recent commits and see the others:
mdawaffe
filosofo
matt
sambauers
I like the patch. I wish I could commit to BackPress. Maybe J^3 can? (anyone remember him from here?) I will try to ring him.
I will apply this to my trunk installation and see if it fixes the problem.
UPDATE:
http://bbpress.chrishajer.com/trunk/topic.php?id=2&replies=5#post-3
Nice job Gautam. I will hit up JohnJamesJacoby and see if he can commit this. I know he’s involved with BuddyPress, but maybe he knows who can do it for BackPress?
Makes sense. I got that error about 15 times when I made a test post at http://bbpress.chrishajer.com/trunk
The post still went through, and the code is all messed up.
This was the bbPress ticket:
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1283
Closed it and made a BackPress ticket:
http://backpress.automattic.com/ticket/25
If anyone really wants to know what’s going on with bbPress, I suggest contacting Matt Mullenweg. I don’t know if there’s anyone else in charge who would know more.
Has it been 3 weeks for sure? I’d like to be able to go back and see when that problem was introduced. It seems to me it just started on new posts, but do you know if it happens when you pull up an old post that has code in it?
Oh yeah, that post was made just once without editing, just in case it matters to anyone.
Kevin, we added the svn revision number to the version, so any theme that echos the meta generator tag will have the version, like “1.1-alpha-2440”. Checking the source here, this site is not running the very latest trunk, although it is running trunk of some revision (but a revision before 2441 – we just don’t know which one since the version tag was not changed until 2441.)
[meta name=”generator” content=”bbPress 1.1-alpha” /]
On my test installation http://bbpress.chrishajer.com/trunk/ you can see it’s running r2441:
[meta name=”generator” content=”bbPress 1.1-alpha-2441″ /]
Test posting there in code tag or backticks shows completely fubar formatting. It is apparently something we can fix in trunk. Not sure when that particular problem was introduced.
I would just turn off registration (remove all links to the registration form) and then user something like this plugin to create the user accounts:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/admin-add-user/
That is an old plugin but instructions on how to make it work for 1.0.2 are in the comments.
I thought there was a plugin by user zaerl that could help but I can’t find it right now.
I saw that, but this post from sambauers led me to NOT recommend that:
Apostrophe and or quotation marks cause backslash to appear.
“magic_quotes_gpc should be off – always, it’s evil.”
So, if it does not work with magic quotes on, it’s probably a bug somewhere, with the integration, and for that reason I prefer the plugin solution here:
Apostrophe and or quotation marks cause backslash to appear.
Not sure what’s best as I’ve never been affected by the problem and therefore never tried to fix it.
I forget the name of it, but it’s a plugin from _ck_. See her list here:
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/installed-plugins
I thought it was called “mini track” or something?
What is the hacking to get rid of the backtick quote problem? I’m not sure what you were trying to solve there. Was that to fix the code and backtick problem?
The escaping of single quotes on integrated installations has been covered here before.
Slashes being added in front of apostrophes
Apostrophe and or quotation marks cause backslash to appear.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/slash-text-issue-in-10-alpha-6-have-searched
Sounds that that is your problem – escaping single quotes in an integrated installation. The hacking you did is unrelated (I think.) I confused backticks with quotation marks.
I don’t think it’s related to the keys at all. They are not used that way when posting. The worst that ever happened was that bbPress did not support the complex keys (with escaped characters) that WordPress did. But that resulted in a 500 Internal Server Error.
You get the message that bbPress is already installed because the database tables are still present. Drop the bb_ tables (if that’s what you used for a table prefix) and you will be able to install again.
Have you tried it without integration to see if that’s causing it?
If you moved it to the html directory, and WordPress is located here http://www.example.com, then bbPress is located at http://www.example.com/bbpress (unless you changed the name of the folder.)
Also, it needs to be unzipped there – you can’t use the zipped archive. It can be unzipped on your local computer, then upload the whole folder to that html location.
If you go to http://www.example.com/bbpress with a browser, you will see the installer.
I did some hacking to get rid of the back tick to quote option
I suspect this is your problem. If you undo those hacks, does the problem go away?
If the hacking you did modified the entries in the database, and your fresh installations are still using that database, I suspect you will still see a problem.
What hacks did you do?
