[chrishajer]

Is there a problem on Windows servers, or just on localhost on Windows?

Of course my suggestion is only a temporary solution. But I am of the belief that the QA or dev server should be the same configuration as the production server, to eliminate the possibility of bugs being introduced when you go live. Installing this on localhost on a Windows desktop machine and ‘making it work’ when your production site is on a linux server seems to me like too much work.

With bbPress still being beta, I’m not too worried about it. WordPress 1.0-RC1 was released somewhere around Jan 1 2004. Their version before that, 0.72 beta1 was released in August 2003. There’s certainly time to get it right.

[Fakey]

How about installing a linux distro in house since your server is linux also?

That’s a temporary solution, but once bbPress goes final and gets publicity the likes of WordPress, this Windows/localhost problem will need to be addressed.

[wenkong]

I see that forum in WordPress.org have this toolbar function in reply text area, is it tinyMCE or whatelse Editor?

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/5784/bbpresstoolsqg1.jpg

[chrishajer]

You could disable it just to see if that’s the problem. In addition to removing or modifying the .htaccess file, you need to set

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

in your config. That will turn off the rewriting completely. Both need to be working for the pretty permalinks to work (i.e. the .htaccess is present, and the $bb->mod_rewrite = true. It doesn’t work on all servers though. Oddly, it works for my WordPress just fine, but not for bbPress which is in a subdirectory, so I have mine set to false for bbPress.)

I would disable it for now, just to see if that’s causing your problem.

[spencerp]

Yeah, I setup Xampp Lite on my computer to be able to run WordPress and bbPress. Then I modify things, and play with it on the localhost before uploading things to my live sites/forums..

spencerp

[kessel]

I can access everything. I can log in and log out to WordPress, Coppermine, phpMyAdmin –basically everything.

bbpress still tells me it can’t find the username.

[flatworm]

I changed all the settings. Now it is the same way I had it at first:

Then I changed domain to the one it told me to, and it loaded as a page with no graphics, full of error messeges. I remember, that I installed it sucessfuly long ago, by installing it, then changing config to the correct settings.

I saved the previous version of config, so it is not the worst.

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:AllProgramingphp&mysql SERVERwordpressbbpressconfig.php:67) in C:AllProgramingphp&mysql SERVERwordpressbbpressbb-admininstall.php on line 9

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:AllProgramingphp&mysql SERVERwordpressbbpressconfig.php:67) in C:AllProgramingphp&mysql SERVERwordpressbbpressbb-includesfunctions.php on line 1819

First Step

Make sure you have everything (database information, email address, etc.) entered correctly in config.php before running this script.

Your $bb->domain setting must only include the http:// and the domain name; it may not include any directories or path information.

Current settings

$bb->domain: http://localhost/wordp

[M]

Are you using the Role Manager (or a similar) plugin in WP? That causes registration through bbPress to set new users as an Admin in WP. I disabled my bbPress registration because of that and just run everyone through WP registration instead.

[wittmania]

I would like to force users to register via the WP blog that my bbpress install is integrated with. Is there any fast and easy way to do this?

I know I could probably crawl through the code and hard code the link so it goes to the WP registration screen instead, but I was hoping someone might have a different suggestion. Also, forcing them to log in through wordpress would be kind of nice as well.

Call me crazy, but I’m still a little cautious about running registration and login through the BBpress side.

[wittmania]

I have recently integrated a bbpress install with an existing wordpress blog/site. The WP blog had three users prior to the integration, and all three made it over to the bbpress install with no problems. However, today a new user registered on the WP side and her ID defaulted to 999999999.

I proceeded to register a “dummy” user, just to see what happened. The next registration ticked up to user ID #1000000000. While I doubt that this will lead to any serious problems, it seems silly to me to have user IDs starting around ONE BILLION, when even 1,000 would be plenty high enough for my lil’ ol’ site. Having McDonald’s-esque “XX billions served” sized numbers seems to fly in the face of the “Code is poetry” mantra.

Any ideas as to what’s going on here?

[chiensavant]

Hi,

sorry for the late reply, but the instruction given to me were not all the clear, I apparently was looking for a solution that wasn’t the one that would work for us.

To sum up the info I have, user authentification will not rely on BBpress authentification, but on our own user table (login and password) called by a simple htaccess file.

AuthUserFile /home/login/.htpasswd

AuthGroupFile /dev/null

AuthName "Private"

AuthType Basic

<Limit GET POST>

require valid-user

</Limit>

So our users will not need to register a new account to get access to BBpress (that is intended to be private only) and they’ll just use their existing account.

We might use cookies to allow easy naviguation between BBpress, WordPress and the login page (that will contain a load of other things)

I haven’t seen any tips on wordpress forum either. Maybe my eyes were not wide open at the time ?

Can it simply be done without rewriting the whole login process ?

[tgpuckett]

wittmania,

Fortunately I haven’t noticed any of that yet, as I started from scratch with a clean WP and bbPress install before doing the import. Thanks!

[Trent Adams]

As long as your wordpress default user role is subscriber, it should be working…hmm. If not, maybe post a comment on that plugin in the bbpress.org/plugins/ repository. I am pretty sure it should work that way.

Trent

[wittmania]

One thing you may run into is conflicting user IDs between phpbb users and existing wordpress/bbpress users. If so, you can change the user IDs in phpbb before you import it by using this mod:

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=388155&sid=3d5e8f776a7086b6fec64c3e80c7cbca

By changing the user IDs in phpbb to 99991, 99992, and so on, so they don’t conflict when they come over.

[wittmania]

One problem I ran into was that I already had a few existing users on the wordpress side, which led to conflicting unique user IDs. I got the importer to work, but some of the posts were under the wrong user names b/c of conflicting unique user IDs between wordpress/bbpress and the old phpbb board I tried to import.

I haven’t been able to try it yet (phpbb.com is down), but they have a mod called Change User ID that seems to do exactly what its name suggests. If so, I intend to use it to change the three user IDs that are conflicting from 2, 3, and 6 to 99992, 99993, and 99996 respectively. That way, when I import the phpbb tables there will just be “blanks” in the sequential unique user IDs for the existing wordpress IDs to fit into.

Hope this is helpful…

[lonelywo]

The link to http://codex.wordpress.org/Ergate/wpmu_bbPress_integration

but its title “OLD INSTRUCTIONS”

After I try modify config.php

http://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

My blog user login fail to bbpress.

msg show “Cannot select DB.”

any good idea?

[Atsutane]

Well if you really want it. I have some time to kill so i think, i will try to do this. Before i start i need to know some detail.

Your wordpress using custom db prefix?

Your bbpress using custom db prefix?

Do you need stats like “Registered Users count” and “Post count”? Or you just want “Most Popular Topics”?

[dkokin]

Is it possible to force new bbpress registrations to become (wordpress) subscribers? I’m a little frustrated with my bbpress subcribers unable to use features such as gravitars while commenting in the wordpress section of my site. How can I get the integration be become truly seamless???? Thank you in advance…

[tgpuckett]

Trent,

Thanks. What I did was edited the importer to use wp_users instead of bb_users and it worked perfectly.

[Trent Adams]

Your wordpress address at the bottom is http:/localhost and wouldn’t it be http://localhost/wordpress/ ? What is the url that you can access wordpress at? I am assuming that it is what I said with http://localhost/wordpress/. If that is the case, these would be the changes:

$bb->wp_home = 'http://localhost/wordpress';

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://localhost/wordpress';

As well, if that is the actual URL that you use for wordpress, then these:

$bb->domain = 'http://localhost/wordpress';

$bb->path = '/bbpress/';

Then, you have another problem and need to change to this:

$bb->akismet_key = 'false';

Try that and report back.

Trent

[flatworm]

It is like: localhost/wordpress/bbpress

[flatworm]

It does not work. I will reinstall entire thing.

Is my config correct for localhost?

I might be enoying, but I demand less, then install on demand.

I learn.

I changed my WP password after installing this thing. Can it cause this problem .

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘admin’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘precision’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// If your bbPress URL is http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ , the examples would be correct.

// Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL.

// Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here.

//$bb->domain = ‘http://localhost/wordpress/bbpress&#8217;; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com&#8217;

$bb->domain = ‘http://localhost&#8217;; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com&#8217;

/////

// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. ‘/’ is fine if the site is in root.

$bb->path = ‘/wordpress/bbpress/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

/////Was empty

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘New bbPress Site’;

// This must be set before running the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘you@example.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = 0;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ‘336’; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave the rest as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http:/localhost’; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http:/localhost’; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

[Trent Adams]

It would require a quick plugin. There is already a plugin to have the recent discussions in bbPress in wordpress, but it would be just another simple plugin using the calls made in statistics.php into a wordpress plugin.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Sorry to get back to you late here. I would imagine that importing from phpBB into bbPress will associate the users into bb_users. Being integrated, bbPress uses wp_users. That might cause some problems. Maybe you can edit the phpBB => bbPress importer to put the users into wp_users versus bb_users. That being said, *****BACKUP EVERYTHING FIRST******

You might want to install a test install on your server and try it there first as I am not sure what the consequences of doing it would be. Nothing too painful, but it might make you have to make a few changes to make sure the posts get associated with the right authors! One way to find out! Good luck!

Trent

[Justin Tadlock]

I finally got everything set up at Books In Bed. The Forum is working well too. Tell me what you think of it so far.

The problems I have had are linking to a topic author’s profile page. I can get the “last poster’s” profile page link though.

What I think I need to do is get the author’s “user id” to do this, but for some reason I can’t get it.

Also, I’ve tried everything on this site to get pretty permalinks working (I use GoDaddy). They’ve always worked fine on my WordPress blog, but not on bbpress. The only thing I haven’t done is /bb-admin/rewrite_rules.php because I keep getting an error when I go to that page.