I experimented a bit with setting up the wp/bbpress integration over the weekend. I can’t get back to it for the next few days but something’s gone awry I need to fix asap. I’m thinking I must have altered something in the wp configuration because since then when we try to access the wp main blog page, the home page we’ve set up comes up instead. I checked the wp-config.php against a previous version and there’s no difference there. Can anybody suggest any other files/settings I may have changed while going through the integration setup that could have an effect on wordpress like this?
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Chris can u help me? Pleaseee…..excuse me for the “up” post
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In fact, I get an error of “username does not exist” and am troubled.
The upshot was the same even if I returned it to WordPress 2.5.1_ja.
When can keep inputting an arbitrary account name by installation of ‘bbpress’; database error “ bbPress database error:
I become・・・・
［Table ‘databasename.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist “, and installation cannot be completed.］
An installation procedure is bad or is that it is a bug of BBpress0.9.0.2 the problem of the server side?
I want to take a possible cause investigation and measures.
Thanking you in advance
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OK, I’m not sure this is the right place for this but here goes.
I’ve already set up my site. My home page is a wordpress blog that is integrated with bbpress. The bulk of the site is plain html pages. I find that when I pull a post out of wp and put it in a streamlined html page google does a better job of picking adds that match the content and I get more clicks on advertising. Now the question/problem. I want to keep the comments at the bottom of each post after I’ve moved it over to html. They are still there in bbpress and I can place a link to the forum, but I would much prefer to have the comments visible at the bottom of each post. If this is going to be too much work for someone literate in html, semi-literate in php and illiterate in css, then is there someone that can and will write a hack for it?
ok, i downgraded from wordpress 2.6 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.
http://lifelightcam.com/bbpress/
what gives?
I just tried this same thing to see if I could recreate the problem. I renamed my bbpress folder, then navigated to the new URL. The forum came up. I tried to log in; I was redirected to the OLD url and got a WordPress 404 page since there is no page there.
Then, I added the line that _ck_ recommended in bb-config.php:
$bb->uri = ‘http://your-domain-name.com/forum-path/’;
And I navigated to the new URL again. The forum came up. Then I tried to log in, and I logged in fine. In the admin, in the settings tab, the new URL is there (the one I entered in the bb-config.php, per _ck_’s suggestion.)
If this was not your experience, maybe you have a problem with permalinks or mod_rewrite rules. Try turning permalinks off and navigating to the forum again.
p.s. I didn’t do anything with the cookies, and I do not have an integrated installation. Just a WordPress site with a forum in a sub-directory.
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thanks _ck_,
It seems to be a problem with when you include the wp-config… There must be a check somewhere in one of the files included in it that checks if that has been registered or is a banned blog, and wp-admin must be hardcoded in somewhere to be a safe directory.. i just havent had time to go through and look for where that happens.. been making a bunch of other customizations instead, as this problem can be solved by just using sub-domains..
James
That wpmu tag is going to be your best friend:
https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/wpmu
Not many people with wpmu experience here.
I know Trent Adams uses it though (he’s also on IRC)
Also, wpmu 2.6 is a no-go with bbPress 0.9 because of cookies.
@Crowspeaker,
Very interesting! I am really excited for this. I wonder if they are going to work on bbpress integration as well for this.
@chriskalani,
I think that’s what the buddypress initiative is about.
https://buddypress.org/
hmmm… yeah. So it sounds like everyone wants it. Now we just need to find someone awesome who can make it happen.
On a side note… it would be really cool if they released a 3rd product focused more around community. Basically just an integrated bundle of bbpress and wordprss with maybe some additional integrated features. That would kick so much butt!! Drupal sucks… so does everything else. But I might end up using it if the main feature I am looking for doesn’t exist. 
I would love something like this. In fact; That is the exact functionality I was looking for and ended up looking into Drupal. I still haven’t done anything with it yet… but if I could find a bbpress/wp solution, that would be so cool!
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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.
