[chrishajer]

If you want multiple forums, you need to do multiple installations, and each bbPress installation will be in a directory of its own, and the config.php in each individual directory should have a unique table prefix, as Sam suggested, like bb1_, bb2_.

In that case, each forum would be access with a different URL as well.

Maybe your site is at http://www.website.com . A normal bbPress installation would be in something like http://www.website.com/forums/ or http://www.website.com/bbpress/ . To have multiple forums, you would access them like this:

http://www.website.com/forum1/

http://www.website.com/forum2/

http://www.website.com/forum3/

or

http://www.website.com/football/

http://www.website.com/baseball/

http://www.website.com/hockey/

and the associated directories on the server would be

/var/www/htdocs/yourname/football/

/var/www/htdocs/yourname/baseball/

/var/www/htdocs/yourname/hockey/

If you just want multiple forums or subforums in your bbPress installation, you just need to install one time, then set up the forums/subforums within bbPress. You don’t need multiple forum installations.