[joeknockz]

I think my problem lies within my database area……I was adding database name and usernames that were in my wordpress wp_config.php

Do I have to create my own database for bbpress through MySQL on my godaddy Linux hosting……..?

I’ve really been trying for about 5 hours straight to figure this out….

Install directions just seem so vague to me

[joeknockz]

Hi during the install of bbpress something must have gone wrong since I’m getting a “page not found” display when I attempt to bring up my “install.php”

I’ll go over every step in hopes to find the problem.

When opening config.php I changed:

BBDB_NAME

BBDB_USER

BBDB_PASSWORD

BBDB_DOMAIN

and

BBDB_EMAIL

All to what those fields said in my wordpress wp_config.php file.

I installed my bbpress folder inside my wordpress folder.

My wordpress folder is directly under my site folder.

I do have multiple domains under the same server but that shouldn’t create any type of problem.

The location of my bbpress should be: http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/bbpress/

So I changed the value in my config.php file to the address above.

I also changed the values of >wp_home and >wp_siteurl

to reflect what it says under my wordpress/options/

Do you see anything that I’ve done wrong? Or am forgetting to do?

[joeknockz]

Hi my website is thelegalhustle.com

I just tried installing bbpress, did everything as it said and when I go to the install page i get this message:

“Warning: mysql_get_server_info(): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/usr/local/mysql-5.0/data/mysql.sock’ (2) in /home/content/j/o/e/joeknockz/html/thelegalhustle/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/db.php on line 73

Warning: mysql_get_server_info(): A link to the server could not be established in /home/content/j/o/e/joeknockz/html/thelegalhustle/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/db.php on line 73

Cannot select DB.”

I go through GoDaddy on a Linux server so it supports everything bbpress needs…I’m not sure where the error lies..

[djuggler]

To eliminate WordPress as a possible problem, I have tried a fresh install of BBPress 0.8.3 in a new directory ~/make2for1_com/ for a throwaway domain I had laying around http://make2for1.com/ The database is a freshly created MySQL 4 db. PHP is using version 4.4.7 The .htaccess uses the code generated with http://make2for1.com//bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php and nothing else. The config is the sample file with all the appropriate blanks filled in and nothing more.

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘slugs’; is set.

Trying to get to a profiles produces a 404. Trying to read a discussion produces a 404. If I change $bb->mod_rewrite = false; it works.

[djuggler]

This is the most recent .htaccess based upon /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ /tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /tags.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ /view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/?$ /rss.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>

I also tried:

Options +MultiViews

And here’s the config.php

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

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

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

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

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

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old 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 the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

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

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://talk.tnlotteryresults.com/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Discuss the Tennessee Lottery’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘juggler@gmail.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘slugs’;

// 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 = -5;

// 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 = ‘0123456789ab’; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

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

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

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

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://new.tnlotteryresults.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://new.tnlotteryresults.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

//The following allow users from the WordPress blog to mix with the bbpress users

define(‘USER_BBDB_NAME’,’CORRECT_BUT_DIFFERENT_THAN_ABOVE’);

define(‘USER_BBDB_USER’,’CORRECT_BUT_DIFFERENT_THAN_ABOVE’);

define(‘USER_BBDB_PASSWORD’,’CORRECT_BUT_DIFFERENT_THAN_ABOVE’);

define(‘USER_BBDB_HOST’,’CORRECT_BUT_DIFFERENT_THAN_ABOVE’);

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

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

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

?>

Thanks for gandering!

[djuggler]

I have now installed wordpress2.3 at http://new.tnlotteryresults.com/ and bbpress 0.8.3 at http://talk.tnlotteryresults.com/ They are located in two physically separate directories using two different databases with no .htaccess in any parent directory. Matter of fact, all parent directories between root and each of the sites are empty. Pretty permalinks work on http://new.tnlotteryresults.com/ and fail on http://talk.tnlotteryresults.com/

I have edited the .htaccess with both methods shown in the installation instructions as well as making sure that I had ‘slugs’ in the config.php

Why does WordPress implement pretty permalinks so easily and bbpress is so resistant?

[chrishajer]

Using the currently available packaged release of bbPress has got to be frustrating a lot of people. Most people, I would guess, just want to download something and have it work, not deal with patches or trying to guess which revision is best suited (is it 980 or 971?) to their situation based on the WordPress version and whether or not they’re integrated.

At the very least, it should be a FAQ or sticky that explains how to do it, before the questions come…

[chrishajer]

Thanks for the correction Sam. Any thoughts on this post I made with regard to a new bbPress release to fix all these database issues people are having?

[Sam Bauers]

Revision [971] is the best option to integrate with WordPress 2.3.1 in my opinion.

Trunk will not be compatible with WordPress 2.3.1 again. Maybe not ever. It will be compatible with the upcoming WordPress 2.4 when that is released (or soon after).

[Asbjørn Ulsberg]

As I’ve written elsewhere, I’ve gotten everything up and running with trunk. As it might not be compatible with the release of WordPress I’m using (2.3.1), I’m wondering when a release of bbPress that fixes these problems and is compatible with WP 2.3.1 (or with the then latest available release of WP) will be available?

[fikirbozan]

How can we get rid of topic or forum in the permanent links

My links like

http://www.mysite.com/topic/wordpress-theme/

But i want like

http://www.mysite.com/wordpress-theme/

and

my forums links

http://www.mysite.com/forum/wordpress/

but i want like

http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/

how can i do this

[fooddude]

Anyone ever figure a way to do this? As I’ve got lots of topics, I’d love for users to be able to click through pages going back in time, as you can in WordPress.

[Sam Bauers]

@chrishajer

I’m not sure that’s the right advice. The latest development versions will definitely break integration as they are geared towards integration with the current WordPress trunk. There are lots of differences in password hashing and cookie storage.

Revision [971] might be OK to use for this specific problem, but I can’t guarantee it. And it won’t fix socket connection under MySQLi.

[livibetter]

I have kept reading this forums for about a month. I saw many similar processes of solving the same problem.

Not long ago, I asked Sam Bauers a question about bbpulp.org on IRC:

<livibetter> can we (users) expand it? like FAQ, troubleshooting, theme modifications?

<livibetter> there are many questions asked again and again on forums. If we can systematically organize a collection of these, then may be easily to give a solution for their questions.

<sambauers> Yeah, go ahead.

<sambauers> It is a wiki after all 

<sambauers> Although it was focused on being a developers resource.

<livibetter> Thanks! I will post a post for this, and hope many other user will do the same thing.

<sambauers> If you wanted to look at the actual bbPress.org documentation

<sambauers> you are welcome to suggest additions and edits of the pages there

<livibetter> I see

<sambauers> It makes more sense to compile FAQs there for instance

<sambauers> And installation/integration notes

<sambauers> Which will soon need updating anyway

<livibetter> means 0.8.4 coming soon?

<sambauers> Probably not until WordPress 2.4

If we can collect and organize these solutions well, we can be more easier to help. I did a small change on the main page, not really start to write something. I took a while to write those new entries, it’s harder than I can imagine. I can’t make them systematic. And that’s still not good, but collaboration can correct mistakes and build a great stuff.

So, Let’s collaborate!

[chrishajer]

It is fixed in the latest development version, I believe. There just hasn’t been a release that includes that functionality.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/db-access-problem-in-the-first-installation-step?replies=26#post-12711

[Asbjørn Ulsberg]

The problem is; I’ve never explicitly told bbPress to connect via a local socket, and since I’m not a Unix expert, I didn’t really comprehend the error message. I now understand a bit more of what it says and that I should instruct bbPress to connect via TCP/IP instead. However, isn’t this something bbPress should have available as an option in the config.php file somehow? Or even just as an automatic switch it figures out based on whether BBDB_HOST is set (or is different from localhost) or not?

[livibetter]

Yes, you surely can’t, cite from man mysql

·  --socket=path, -S path



For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use, or, on

Windows, the name of the named pipe to use.

No remote IPC, if you can communicate via TCP/IP from remote, why use unix socket?

[livibetter]

I don’t think you can connect to a remote MySQL server via unix socket. Please use TCP/IP.

And don’t forget to grant the user for connecting from remote IP.

[Sam Bauers]

You can have it now if you use trunk.

At the moment revision [980] is the most stable.

ZIP file is at the bottom of this page:

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk?rev=980

If you are integrating with WordPress at the moment I don’t recommend using trunk though.

[Sam Bauers]

> I suspect bbPress of having hard coded a connection to localhost and thus configuring define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘…’) to be something else than localhost doesn’t really matter.

That’s simply not the case.

[alderete]

Yeah, I guess it would work for now, we only have a few forums. But I’m reluctant to put that kind of thing into the templates, where it’s hard to update, and prone to typo problems, etc., if the conditional code gets accidentally mucked up.

Is there any way to add arbitrary meta attributes to things in bbPress, the way you can add them to posts in WordPress?

[livibetter]

Check Step 2 of https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Detailed_Instructions

It’s written for WordPress, but you can use it for installing bbPress.

[chrishajer]

It doesn’t look like you upgraded the installation properly. But your issue so far has nothing to do with bbPress. All those errors are from WordPress.

That looks to be a pretty common error:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Table+*wp_terms+doesn%27t+exist

[chrishajer]

You could extract all the email addresses from the database with a tool like phpMyAdmin. I don’t know of a plugin that does this. If it’s a onetime thing, I would just grab the email addresses from the database with a query like:

SELECT DISTINCT user_email

FROM bb_users

ORDER BY user_email ASC

 

With all the email addresses, then just send out a mass email with your email client putting their email addresses in the BCC field.

Are you looking to do this regularly, and are you thinking this should be a plugin? I guess you’d need to know if the installation were integrated or not, then query the correct table, and also if it is an integrated installation, you’d need to separate out the bbPress registrations from the WordPress registrations.

[livibetter]

Well I updated WP…

You probably need to ask in WordPress Support.

Here is a document: https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended#Detailed_Upgrade_Instructions_for_1.5.x.2C_2.0.x.2C_2.1.x.2C_or_2.2.x_to_2.3.1