By the way, if you are asking yourself if it’s worth this much trouble getting eAccelerator to work, the answer is definitely yes. It will give you a very nice speed boost in bbPress and WordPress.
Since your server is very standardized as Cpanel + PHP 4.4.8 I am virtually positive we can get this going.
I’ve just setup bbpress 1.0 with wordpress 2.6.1. The install went fine and I’m logged in as an admin but I’m having a few issues.
First I cannot get to the admin control panel, when I click the admin link, or enter the url to the admin panel I am taken to the forum index.
Second issue (not sure if they are linked) is when I click add post, or want to reply to a post the text entry box / form is not there.
Anyone able to help me fix these issues?
Many thanks.
How about at wordpress.org/support/ ?
I like your site and Am looking at using wordpress mu + bbpress .
Can your custom plugin lookable be used .if so how much?
bbpress.org runs 0.9.0.2 here.
Does anyone have a guess at the version of bbPress that’s running bbpress.org/forums/ or wordpress.org/support/ ?
Is there anything that would give it away in the source if you looked? Like a specific class or id that came about in a specific version?
bbPress is beta software right now. The latest beta release is 0.9.0.2. That release is not compatible with WordPress 2.6. The decisions are up to you.
The compatibility is only an issue if you want integration. If you don’t need integrated users between bbPress and WordPress, then install bbPress 0.9.0.2.
Is it the same with single WordPress integration?
Could I provide each independent forum for each blog created in WMPU?
If not use for production site, but I am using WordPress 2.6.1 and want to use bbPress stable version. What can I do?
By ‘review’ I simply mean comments that have been posted about it.
bbPress would have the same requirements of a host as WordPress. So you can check this or ask your host:
https://bbpress.org/about/requirements/
https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
If the host already runs WordPress, they can do bbPress.
Never use an alpha of any product for anything other than testing. Otherwise it’s 100% at your own risk.
bbPress 0.9 is very stable.
There are sometimes daily updates to 1.0 alpha (via the SVN of the trunk) but it will not be “finished” for many weeks.
Who is reviewing 1.0 alpha? You can’t review 1.0 alpha, it’s not finished. That’s like reviewing a car that has no interior.
I love bbpress, and am anxiously waiting for bbpress 1.0. I’d love to put up my forum now, but have heard mixed reviews on alpha 1. My question is, what is wordpress.org and bbpress.org using? The obvious answer I would think is some form of bbpress… correct?
Since I don’t want to use an ‘alpha’ launching a new site, how do I get the version that bbpress.org is using now, or what wordpress.org is using now? With the thousands of users and posts, it seems like that would be my best bet for stability.
Should I launch my site with the 9.x version or does anyone think a more stable version will be released within the next few weeks?
No, if you have bbpress and wordpress integrated, and you are with bbPress 0.9, you should stick with WordPress 2.5 because that’s the only version that works with bbPress 0.9
There is nothing wrong with WP 2.5 and no need to upgrade to 2.6, because if you do, you’ll need bbPress 1.0 alpha which is unstable and has bugs.
Done!!!! Let’s wait!!! Thanks so much _ck_ !! (I’m still making the cache things!!)
I’ll tell you in a couple of hours how it looks.
Should I update wordpress version to the last one? Or it’s slower?
Thanks again.
For now you should be okay with cpanel and whm – they do make life much easier running a server. There are things we can fine tune eventually.
However you have one HUGE problem.
You have no mysql cache enabled, at all!
When we get it fixed you will see a big difference in bbpress (and wordpress) performance.
The cookies in bbPress 1.0 and WordPress 2.6 are based on recommendations from a security whitepaper by a top researcher.
Half of the key used in the cookie is kept in the database and the other half of the key is kept in the configuration file (bb-config.php / wp-config.php)
The idea is to make it harder for an attacker to compromise the system. They may gain file access but not db access or visa versa – therefore the other half is safe.
When I say “half” it’s not literal – but essentially the secret keys are “salted” with the secret salt. “Salting” is a much more complex operation than needs to be explained here (see wikipedia).
Probably your installation is not loading the javascript libraries. Are you using WordPress’ header instead of the bbPress one?
necessary for WP 2.6 -> BBP 1alpha:
WordPress “auth” cookie key
WordPress “secure auth” cookie key
WordPress “logged in” cookie key
Nice list but I’ve always found function lists fairly useless, though I guess if you have zero experience with how bbPress or WordPress works, they can give you a starting point with something to browse through.
What really helps is a trace of how functions flow when a page is loaded and what files they are located in.
I have an experimental version of bb-benchmark that does something like this using a trace feature from WordPress 2.6 but it’s not available for public use yet.
No, you cannot use bbPress 0.9 with WordPress 2.6
Hi _CK_,
I just installed 1.0 alpha.Can WordPress 2.6.1 integration bbPress 0.9? If can, I’ll uninstall 1.0 Alpha and install 0.9? Is good?
Running bbPress on a server with 128mb of ram would be very difficult unless it’s a very light setup with low use.
256mb should be doable if that is real, permanent memory and not burst memory. It’s also important if you don’t have alot of overhead like cpanel running.
#1 problem on most small VPS is you either don’t have the mysql cache turned on or it’s too small of a cache
#2 problem is you almost certainly don’t have a PHP opcode cache like eAccelerator installed
#3 problem on almost all VPS is bad neighbors.
On a shared host, you can easily tell when you have bad neighbors who are overloading the server (node). On a VPS they are hidden. If you have an inexperienced host, they may have a hard time tracking down the offender, or may not even care. If they tell you that your neighbors can’t affect you, that’s an outright lie or plain ignorance.
If you are running bbPress 1.0 alpha it has several problems generating far too many mysql queries and that could be causing you some headaches. If you are using bbPress 0.9, definitely stick with that, but you need to fine tune your settings.
WordPress has some nice caching plugins like wp-super-cache. No such creature exists yet for bbPress, so all pages must be rendered each time by the engine, making it use more overhead than WordPress.
Never mind. I fixed it myself. I checked my comments.php (on your themes wp-content/themes/your selected theme/ folder) and to my surprise it was empty!.. So what i did is open the original comments.php from my back-ups. And copy all the contents and paste it to the empty comment.php. That’s it, all comments are there now.
