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Alright, i tested a few more things and it is definitely a problem when i include the wp-config.php file in bb-config.php.. here is the htaccess file im using: if i try and forward it to a directory like “forumtest” with nothing in it it will work perfectly.. and if i take out that require it will load fine as well.. but with errors because it cant find the functions that file defines..
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blogs/
#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(forum) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>
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opps, I mean when i put
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?forum/(.*) forum/$2 [L,R]
it takes it back to the /blog directory.. but when i put
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?forum/(.*) forum/$2 [R,L]
it gives me the redirect error..
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I installed muwordpress (with directories not subdomains) and bbpress and integrated them.. I added
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?forum/(.*) forum/$2 [L,R]
to the .htaccess in the wp directory and it worked before i added the code
define(‘WP_BB’, true);
if ( !defined(‘DB_NAME’) ) {
require_once(‘/home/.atrax/armsteadj/myiowa-news.com/blogs/wp-config.php’);
}
into the bb-config.php file to get integration to work.. now it gives me a loop error..? any ideas on how to get the htaccess file to forward the directory to it?
Thanks!
James
You only need to share databases to have integrated user logins. If you just installed WordPress, it’s probably 2.6, which is not compatible with bbPress at the moment, so you do not want to attempt this right now anyway.
The difference is, when you share a database, is that bbPress will use the wp_user and wp_user_meta tables for it’s users, rather than creating bb_user and bb_user_meta tables.
If you don’t care about logging in in bbPress and being logged in in WordPress, and vice versa, then you don’t need to shared the tables.
If you don’t do an integrated installation (sharing of the wp_users and wp_user_meta tables), then you can just use a different table prefix (by default WordPress uses wp_ and bbPress uses bb_) in the same database and not worry about a thing.
This is the best documentation I know of:
https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/
Adding tags does not bump posts to the top of latest discussions. In any case that question/problem should be asked in a new topic, not in this one.
ok, i downgraded to wordpress 2.5.1, and now I’m getting a “This username does not exist.” in bbpress when I try and log in. I can log into wordpress just fine, just not bbpress.
what gives?
The problem I’m having is that I’ve had is that my blog is 4 years old but I only started adding tags less than a year ago and bbpress install is only a few months old. So I’m adding new tags to old posts (because I’m a borderline obsessive compulsive organizer) and they’re becoming the top posts on bbpress even though they’re years old. I’m almost done, but it’s still crazy. If I were smart and had realized what was going to happen I’d’ve finished my tagging and then installed bbpress. But I’m not 
Anyway, thanks for the tips and the info 
Mmm…no I’ve tried this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101
And also the require_once that u’ve told me, but maybe I’m unlucky!
I’ve used no one include…have u got a link? Or can u tell me how to do it?
There are no error, but the script don’t function…in bbpress it create a message (“there are [number] new messages”), if I use it in wp it do nothing… (the functions are in the bbpress path)
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaanks!!
What have you done so far? Have you added the include bbpress line in wp-config.php? If so, please post your error message. Need more information to be able to help you.
Well, but it’s not ok. I have the same database for wp and bbpress, I’ve done also the config wrote in the tutorial, but the script doesn’t function… 
I have wordpress 2.5 and bbpress 0.9.0.2
Do you know what can i do?? Thx
I agree on the registration process which can be done by forcing the links on one side to the other but I could not disagree more with “Editing a wordpress post that didn’t exist on the bbpress side would still create a post on bbpress, but it’d date it for when the wordpress post was created, not when the edit took place.”
I can’t fathom people who do that. WordPress is for One-To-Many posting and bbPress is for Many-To-Many posting.
What bbPress needs instead is a “promote-to-front-page” option where the front page becomes a descriptive list of topics with summaries that have been marked by admin as worthy for the front page. It’s yet another plugin that I want to write but don’t have time for right now.
ok — I’m a newbie to bbpress, and a relative newbie to wordpress, so please bear with me.
I have wordpress installed in my site’s root directory. I installed bbpress into root/bbpress. I made all the needed settings to changes to call the wp headers from my bb-config file, and vice versa.
Then, I made a newbie mistake of trying to rename my bbpress folder to root/forums, and also changed the setting in my bbpress admin > settings of my bbpress directory to “root/forums.” (thinking this would somehow magically just work) Now, when I try to access my bbpress admin page, I simply get redirected to my wordpress homepage. It seems that the header information is screwed up now, I suspect it has something to do with the filenames and absolute paths, but I have no idea how to fix it or to begin diagnosing it.
Please help!
If you want to call bbPress functions from WordPress, you need to include bbPress in WordPress. It’s described here for including WordPress inside bbPress. You would do the opposite to include bbPress in WordPress (make the changes to wp-config.php and require_once('path/to/bb-load.php')
bbPress is not currently compatible with WordPress 2.6 for integrated installations:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17409
I updated WordPress to 2.6 and now the config file doesn’t have a SECRET_KEY for me to match when integrating bbpress. Instead I have these fields:
AUTH_KEY
SECURE_AUTH_KEY
LOGGED_IN_KEY
How does this work now?
By that definition, the categories and tags would also be matching/transparent and the back-end UI (where visible) would match. Editing a wordpress post that didn’t exist on the bbpress side would still create a post on bbpress, but it’d date it for when the wordpress post was created, not when the edit took place. They’d use identical login pages and registration pages out of the box instead of forcing me to spend hours hacking together a template, or better yet would find a way to leverage the templates (especially the CSS tags) so that the UI would look closer to transparent, and the “comments count” on the wordpress side would work.
So like said, dual log-in is the least of my integration problems.
I’m still learning PHP but plan to at some point down the road dip in to the dev side to try to help, so these aren’t criticisms so much as “kirabug’s someday to-do list”.
On the plugin page there is this script to view new messages
<?php if (bb_current_user_can(‘write_posts’)) : ?>
<?php pm_fp_link(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
In bbpress is all ok. But what can i do to view new messages also in wordpress? Anyone can help me? Thank u all!!
Well the definition of integration is that the two softwares operate as one. If a user has to log in twice, then they do not perceive the website operating as one big system but two different programs.
Oh, OK, yeah, that makes sense. I am using BBPress and I’ve got it set up so that my two installs share the same user table, so I’ve got the same users and the same posts on both sides of the wall. As far as I was thinking, that *is* integration.
If users have to log in and “remember me” on both sides, well, that’s the least of my problems.
If you read the levels of integration I posted in the beginning here you will see that even the most simple level of integration requires cookie sync. It is impossible to sync the cookies between bbPress 0.9 and WordPress 2.6 because they literally use different cookies. A user cannot stay logged in between both. They will have to login twice. Log out twice. The db may be similar and the user table may be used by both but the login cookies are different.
I don’t know how to state it more clearly than that.
The problem I think is with integrated logins. You can’t log in on the bbPress side and be logged in on the WordPress side, or vice versa. If your experience is different, please tell about it.
Sounds like you are using bbSync which is for something totally different: no cookies required to accomplish that.
Thanks
Let me repeat and clarify – it’s IMPOSSIBLE to integrate bbPress 0.9.x with WordPress 2.6 – the cookie methods are now completely different. You must use 2.5.1
I was running BBPress 0.9.0.2 when I upgraded to WordPress 2.6, and, well, it’s still working. I post to WordPress, it appears on BBPress no problem. I post a comment on BBPress and it appears on WordPress no problem.
So is the problem that it’s impossible to integrate a NEW installation? Or is there some other sort of background mess going on that I don’t know about that’s making my installation insecure or something? My site’s here and there’s a link to the bbpress install in the top right corner if you want to check it out.
The wp-pro list might be a good place to ask:
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I think you asked this on the IRC channel but I will also answer here to help others.
PHP is not processed in style.css (unless you force your server to, and that’s not recommended)
However you can edit your theme’s header.php and create an additional “inline” stylesheet like so:
<style>
body {background: url("<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>/wp-content/themes/default/images/background.gif") repeat-x top;}
</style>
</head>
(note that </head> at the end, it’s meant to indicate you should put that code at the end of the <head></head> section)
Also, more importantly, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is not going to be the variable you want. Probably more like $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] and you’ll have to add the path to wordpress too.
It occurs to me that while the for-hire market is very small on the bbPress side, it’s much more likely you might find someone on the WordPress side who does it for a living. You then might be able to convince them to give bbPress themes a try since they are so similar.
In any case, you’ve posted your email which is what the “rules” here require and then I guess I’m supposed to close the thread, so good luck and best wishes.
