[hanjra]

code

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

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

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

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

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old bb-config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// Change BB_SECRET_KEY to a unique phrase. You won’t have to remember it later,

// so make it long and complicated. You can visit https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

// to get a phrase generated for you, or just make something up.

// If you are integrating logins with WordPress, you will need to match the value

// of the “SECRET_KEY” in the WordPress file wp-config.php

define(‘BB_SECRET_KEY’, ‘*************************************’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

// If you are running multiple bbPress installations in a single database,

// you will probably want to change this.

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

// 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 BB_LANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BB_LANG’, ”);

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BB_PATH’) )

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

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

?>

That is my bb-config.php

[keress]

I take it there is no quick fix to get out of this dilemna? I don’t understand why, but now we are also unable to log into our word press blog.

My plan is to uninstill bbpress, then attempt to install it to the wordpress database. I’m on the road now and won’t have an opportunity to do this till tomorrow. If anybody knows of a quick fix to get our wordpress blog working, it would be great.

[_ck_]

If you are not on 2.6 yet, stay with 2.5 and install bbPress 0.9

bbPress 1.0 is in ALPHA and not ready for active sites that use/need plugins. Many of my plugins have issues with 1.0 because of many internal changes.

bbPress integration is easy and takes just a few minutes if you have a typical server and standard setup.

There are a several large sites using bbPress (including WordPress.org) so it handles high traffic just fine.

I’ve never heard of anyone converting from Simple:Press, you’ll have to search for it. If you can get it into PHPBB2 format, several people have converted from that.

[rpophessagr]

It works now! I hddn’t set up the “wordpress integration” with the new installation.

Thanks for your help!

[rpophessagr]

I upgraded to alpha. It was working fine. then I added the line:

if (file_exists(‘../wp-blog-header.php’))

require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

into the bb-conig file. This time, instead of not letting me log in, now it does, but it wont let me go into the admin area…

any ideas?

[geekymom]

Thanks for both your responses. We decided to move the database to the same server. I’m now having issues with the WordPress cookies, but at least that’s a new problem!

[citizenkeith]

I’m a member of a few forums that send out announcements.

Some hosts will limit the number of emails you can send at once though. Dreamhost, for instance, has a limit of 100 per hour (one of the many reasons I’ll be leaving them soon).

It would be overkill for some sites, but it would be nice to have a plugin for PHPList that would share a WordPress and/or bbPress user database; one that would allow user control of mailing list preferences in the WordPress or bbPress profile.

[danvollans]

Based on the settings you chose, or whoever installed it on your server, there is an option to allow remote connections to the database. I’m assuming you’re using mysql for your database. The most probable cause is that either you’re running a firewall that is blocking port 3306 (default port) or you just simply don’t have remote access set up.

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/remotemysql.htm

That is a fairly straight-forward and decent guide to setting up mysql for remote access. If you have any questions you can ask me and I’ll do my best to help!

[rpophessagr]

thank you for your help!

I upgraded and it worked like a charm.

I inserted the line in my config file and it works now.

THank you for your help!

[rpophessagr]

{light bulb} ahhh! I have 0.9.0.2 installed… i’ll try the alpha

thankyou! can i just “upgrade”? or do i have to do a clean install?

[chrishajer]

I see you’re running WordPress 2.6.1. What version bbPress did you install? I think I asked that before but I must have missed the answer. The alpha branch of bbPress is compatible with WordPress 2.6.* but the 0.9 branch is not.

[chrishajer]

You can do it that way, but if you are getting a database connection error, there is something wrong with your database connection details.

I use one server for the database and one for the web server, so I know it will work. Sounds like you just haven’t figured out the proper connection details.

Can you connect to the database box from a linux command line?

[geekymom]

I may be going about this the hard way, but I thought I’d see if anyone had an answer for me. I’m not a sysadmin, but I play one on tv, or at the very least, can find my way around a linux box pretty well. Here’s what I’m trying to do. I have WordPress Mu running on server a and I have bbpress installed on server b. I want to have bbpress use the user tables of the WordPress Mu db. Every time I’ve tried to do this, I’m getting a db connection error. I know I have the username and password correct. I put in the db host as http://www.servera.com. Is there something I’m missing completely? Should I just give up trying to do it this way?

By the way, I’ve tried this with .9 and no go there either. I really can’t go back to WPMU 2.5 because we have a key plugin that requires 2.6.

[matthijs]

I’ve integrated the 1.0 alpha release of BBpress together with WP2.61 successfully in 2 places now. Works great so far.

What I did: install wp in root the normal way. Then put bb files in subdirectory /forums/. Install bb. Follow instructions carefully. I also made my bb-config file writable, that prevented some errors as well.

[rpophessagr]

if i remove the line: if (file_exists(‘../wp-blog-header.php’))

require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

then this does not happen.

This happens with any theme i put up.

[rpophessagr]

no error, no failure.

i’ll set it up so you can see

try logging in with

UN: guest1

PW: q%dxPv8&xBz1

greenprophet.com/exegesis

as you can see it acts completely normal, it just looks like you never logged in…

thanks

[Idiom]

I can not figure out where i went wrong.. I’m using the latest 1.0 alpha release at 2.6. Everything apperas to work as expected (users exist in both systems, etc). However, the auto login is not working. I believe i followed the instructions to the “T”. Heres the stored cookie for both systems.

WordPress cookie after login:

/r30ab08c19a56be384114b23c09751029b7cf0de2e632d894d28d72e65f7f9f4=paul%7C1219369085%7Cc34a82349db07b4910c7910f399a9524

wordpress_=brian%7C1219369051%7Cf203245956a5b6a1e75d245128f85ced

wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check

wordpress_logged_in_=brian%7C1219369051%7C3738545f5bdb765f9ba4f5696e435ff9

wordpress_logged_in_57ff593b3dd6a2c72983ec37fa6fbe1a=paul%7C1219369085%7C6abf020fe1dc18102166be4e3a709ab1

BBpress immediatly after logging into wordpress:

/rwordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check

wordpress_logged_in_=brian%7C1219369051%7C3738545f5bdb765f9ba4f5696e435ff9

wordpress_logged_in_57ff593b3dd6a2c72983ec37fa6fbe1a=paul%7C1219369085%7C6abf020fe1dc18102166be4e3a709ab1

BBpress (already logged into wordpress, now manually logging into BBPress:

/rwordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check

wordpress_logged_in_=brian%7C1219369051%7C3738545f5bdb765f9ba4f5696e435ff9

wordpress_logged_in_57ff593b3dd6a2c72983ec37fa6fbe1a=brian%7C1219369533%7C9bc6a13aa1062a28d82bf0c30680253d

any ideas?

Cheers!

Brian

[Sam Bauers]

1.0-alpha now includes php-mailer from WordPress.

I’ve added a plugin for 1.0-alpha to allow sending of email via an SMTP server. https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/smtp-mailer-for-bbpress/

[chrishajer]

What happens when you try to log in? The log in fails, or you are redirected to the form, or you get some sort of error message?

[rpophessagr]

thanks!

when I have the line: if (file_exists(‘../wp-blog-header.php’))

require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

in my bb-config.php file when I try to log in the wont accept it. as if the cookies are disabled…

[danvollans]

My issue is resolved. There was an issue with the user tables not collaborating, so I put WPMU 2.6 and bbPress 1.0 Alpha in separate databases, and followed _ck_’s tutorial on install. I also used the plugin for loss of admin access. Everything now works beautifully. (so far! )

WordPress:

http://blog.danvollans.com/wpmu/

bbPress:

http://danvollans.com/bbpress/

[danvollans]

The reason for the loop is that it’s trying to create repeat tables in the database, either new database or the wordpress database, whichever one you chose to use. I believe this is the cause for the loop, if you go into mysql, use:

mysql -u <user> -p

and then type your password

type:

use <databasename>

then type show tables;

and then type drop table <table name with prefix bb_>

and drop each table that was a remnant of bbpress. This is the way to start a new install.

[f3lix]

in my case I can successfully go through step 2, and the system tells me:

“Your WordPress integration cookie and database settings have been successfully validated. They will be saved after the next step.

…”

After that I name the forum, choose my normal WP-Admin-User,etc.

When I want to complete the next step it prompts me with: Installation Errors:

“Forum could not be created!” and tells in the complete log:

“Referrer is OK, beginning installation…

>>> Setting up custom user table constants

Step 1 – Creating database tables

>>> Modifying database: <my_db> (<my_host>)

>>>>>> Table: bb_forums

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_meta

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_posts

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_tagged

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_tags

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_terms

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_term_relationships

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_term_taxonomy

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_topics

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: bb_topicmeta

>>>>>>>>> Creating table

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: wp_users

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: ID

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_login

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_pass

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_nicename

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_email

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_url

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_registered

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_status

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: display_name

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>> Table: wp_usermeta

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: umeta_id

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

>>>>>>>>> Changing column: user_id

>>>>>>>>>>>> Done

Step 2 – WordPress integration (optional)

>>> WordPress address (URL): http://www.fl3x.org/blog/

>>> Blog address (URL): http://www.fl3x.org/blog/

>>> WordPress cookie keys set.

>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt set from input.

>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt set from input.

>>> Fetching missing WordPress cookie salts.

>>>>>> WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt not set.

>>> User database table prefix: wp_

Step 3 – Site settings

>>> Site name: fl3x Forum

>>> Site address (URL): http://www.fl3x.org/blog/bbpress/

>>> From email address: <my_email>

>>> Key master role assigned to existing user

>>>>>> Benutzername: <admin_user>

>>>>>> E-Mail-Adresse: <my_email>

>>>>>> Passwort: Your existing password

>>> Beschreibung: Just another bbPress community

>>> Forum could not be created!

>>> Key master email sent

There were some errors encountered during installation!”

Thats all, and afterwards I won’t see a forum, I only get error messages on Firefox regarding a redirection loop.

[danvollans]

Even deeper, this is a problem with the wordpress integration for me. I tried installing without integrating and it worked just fine. It’s possible that for me the integration must come afterwards..

[danvollans]

Yeah, I have been looking for something similar. My error occurred actually in a different spot now that I remember. The issue that I was running into was when I created the KeyMaster user, I named it admin, foolishly. This came with an error saying that the user is already in my wordpress database so it could not create user “admin”. That is where the loop began. I have since cleared my cache, search history, and everything that you can clear in firefox including cookies.

I also tried this in Safari so it is most definitely not a browser related issue, or an issue with the actual bbPress, since this isn’t very common. It then must be a database issue, so I’ll continue to look into it.

Thanks for the ideas.