[ear1grey]

I think the easiest (& most stable) solution is to use a symlink such as ln -s /path/to/bbpress newname in the folder where you want the new forum to appear (probably at the top level of your server).

Then, once that’s running, open your config.php and change $bb->path = '/newname/';

I think that’s all, and you have the advantage of being able to get the symlink working before asking bbpress to use the new path when creating links.

Anyone see any gotchas with that?