[kenburcham]

Thanks… We would love to be able to use the channels extension. If there’s anything we can do… just tell us where to send the chocolate or beer or whatever. Thanks!

[kenburcham]

bump. after reading wordpress and bbpress forums and posts and … finally coming to the realization that what I’m looking for is this “bbpress channels” extension. I’d love to know when it might be available? We’re going to unleash bbpress on hundreds of sites via a multisite server if we can get bbmu to work… I ‘spose I can write my own extension, but it’d be more fun to install and tweak yours. thanks!

[kenburcham]

Hi. I have the same question… I’m looking at how to give a bbpress forum for each of our multisite blogs that get created. I have simplepress working that way, but we want to kick the tires of bbpress as it seems to be sweeter.

[kenburcham]

I ran into this problem, too:

Trouble with admin user and getting started

The reason I was having it related to our server requiring https and the admin cookie not being set correctly when it is initially established. see link for my workaround.

[kenburcham]

I ran into this problem, too:

Trouble with admin user and getting started

The reason I was having it related to our server requiring https and the admin cookie not being set correctly when it is initially established. see link for my workaround.

[kenburcham]

bbailie: if you no longer own the files, you’ll need to contact the support folks at your hoster and ask them to change the ownership back to you.

once you delete those files and are back to square one, try going through these instructions step by step:

Idiots guide to installing

If you decide to try again without deleting and re-unzipping the bbpress.zip archive, just make sure to delete the bb_* tables from your database and delete (or rename) the bb-config.php file. That will get you passed the “oh dear” message…

[kenburcham]

bbailie: if you no longer own the files, you’ll need to contact the support folks at your hoster and ask them to change the ownership back to you.

once you delete those files and are back to square one, try going through these instructions step by step:

Idiots guide to installing

If you decide to try again without deleting and re-unzipping the bbpress.zip archive, just make sure to delete the bb_* tables from your database and delete (or rename) the bb-config.php file. That will get you passed the “oh dear” message…

[kenburcham]

to uninstall and try again:

remove (or rename) bb-config.php

remove all bb_* tables from the database you are using.

visit your installation link again and you can now start over.

[kenburcham]

to uninstall and try again:

remove (or rename) bb-config.php

remove all bb_* tables from the database you are using.

visit your installation link again and you can now start over.

[kenburcham]

Resolved:

Here was the problem (this is probably a bug).

At the apache level we are requiring ssl on the server I’m installing bbpress on.

When I login as the admin user, it sets the cookie in “auth” not “secure_auth” mode, but then when it goes to check for the admin cookie, it checks “secure_auth” mode because the connection is https.

the workaround was to add:

define (‘BB_FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true);

to my bb-config.php file. Log out and log in. Then the admin cookie is set in a way that it can be correctly validated.

Now I can login as admin.

[kenburcham]

Resolved:

Here was the problem (this is probably a bug).

At the apache level we are requiring ssl on the server I’m installing bbpress on.

When I login as the admin user, it sets the cookie in “auth” not “secure_auth” mode, but then when it goes to check for the admin cookie, it checks “secure_auth” mode because the connection is https.

the workaround was to add:

define (‘BB_FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true);

to my bb-config.php file. Log out and log in. Then the admin cookie is set in a way that it can be correctly validated.

Now I can login as admin.

[kenburcham]

First objective: Prepare your bbpress database

1) Create a database using phpmyadmin or whatever tool your hosting provider gives you to create a mysql database. I like calling mine “bbpress”.

2) Create a database user and give them access to the database you just created. I like calling my user “bbpress” and making a password that is unguessable “K4id83k$h@a” or something.

Second objective: Prepare the bbpress directory

1) Download the latest bbpress installation zip from here: https://bbpress.org/download/

2) Use either an ftp program or the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to copy the bbpress zip archive to the root directory of your webserver. Usually something like “public_html”.

3) Use the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to unzip the archive into your home directory.

4) Rename the “bbpress” directory to the desired directory name you want to reference in your url. For example if you want: http://www.example.com/forums then rename “bbpress” to “forums”. If you want: http://www.example.com/bbpress then you don’t need to rename the directory at all. This is now your bbpress “home” directory.

5) Delete the bbpress installation archive zip file from your home directory.

6) Advanced: check the permissions of the bbpress home directory. If you want to make things really easy on yourself, make the bbpress home directory world writeable (777) while you run the installation process. (just be sure to change it back when you are finished!)

Final objective: Install bbpress

1) Go to your bbpress home with a browser: http://www.example.com/forums

2) Follow the instructions bbpress gives you in the installation process. You’ll need to provide the username, password, database name and host that you created in objective one.

NOTE: I’d recommend NOT doing the wordpress integration during the install. Just skip it for now. You can set that part up later once bbpress is installed and working.

3) Once you’ve finished following the instructions, you should be good to go!

NOTE: If things go bad and you need to restart the installation process from scratch, you can delete the bb-config.php file from your bbpress home directory and delete the bb_* tables from your database using your database administration tool. Then visit your bbpress home again with your browser to restart the installation process.

[kenburcham]

First objective: Prepare your bbpress database

1) Create a database using phpmyadmin or whatever tool your hosting provider gives you to create a mysql database. I like calling mine “bbpress”.

2) Create a database user and give them access to the database you just created. I like calling my user “bbpress” and making a password that is unguessable “K4id83k$h@a” or something.

Second objective: Prepare the bbpress directory

1) Download the latest bbpress installation zip from here: https://bbpress.org/download/

2) Use either an ftp program or the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to copy the bbpress zip archive to the root directory of your webserver. Usually something like “public_html”.

3) Use the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to unzip the archive into your home directory.

4) Rename the “bbpress” directory to the desired directory name you want to reference in your url. For example if you want: http://www.example.com/forums then rename “bbpress” to “forums”. If you want: http://www.example.com/bbpress then you don’t need to rename the directory at all. This is now your bbpress “home” directory.

5) Delete the bbpress installation archive zip file from your home directory.

6) Advanced: check the permissions of the bbpress home directory. If you want to make things really easy on yourself, make the bbpress home directory world writeable (777) while you run the installation process. (just be sure to change it back when you are finished!)

Final objective: Install bbpress

1) Go to your bbpress home with a browser: http://www.example.com/forums

2) Follow the instructions bbpress gives you in the installation process. You’ll need to provide the username, password, database name and host that you created in objective one.

NOTE: I’d recommend NOT doing the wordpress integration during the install. Just skip it for now. You can set that part up later once bbpress is installed and working.

3) Once you’ve finished following the instructions, you should be good to go!

NOTE: If things go bad and you need to restart the installation process from scratch, you can delete the bb-config.php file from your bbpress home directory and delete the bb_* tables from your database using your database administration tool. Then visit your bbpress home again with your browser to restart the installation process.