[vhilaire]

Nevermind, I took out the WordPress integration stuff and the admin dashboard came back.

[vhilaire]

The URL to the forum is: http://www.johnmayerfans.com/boards

The forum itself seems to be working the way it should. When I first created the config file I left the whole “integrating with wordpress” section blank. I didn’t fill it out. Then I filled it in once I found that the pretty slug permalinks weren’t working right. Once I did that the forums worked fine but then I couldn’t get into the main Admin dashboard.

Here’s my config file as it is now:

<?php

require_once(‘/home/26615/domains/johnmayerfans.com/html/blog/wp-blog-header.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’, ‘************’); // 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://www.johnmayerfans.com/boards/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘JohnMayerFans.com Message Boards’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘myemail@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 = -8;

// 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 = ‘***************’; // 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 = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

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

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

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

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

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

?>

[vhilaire]

I installed bbPress and was able to get into the Admin dashboard right after installation. However once I changed the config file to talk to WordPress I can’t get to the bbPress admin dashboard anymore. It just redirects me to my bbPress homepage.

Any idea what’s causing the problem?

[kitkat278]

Where can I download the theme that is being used here? I tried a couple links but they lead to somebodies login page of there wordpress.

Thanks!

[Beau Lebens]

Background: Installed WPMU (at “/”) and bbPress (at “/forums/”), followed integration instructions (and tweaked to get it all working). I used my WP theme header.php and footer.php as the basis for a bbPress theme, and loaded the full WP engine into bbPress by putting this code in my config.php

// Load WordPress so we can use the same templates.

define('WP_BB', 'true');

require_once dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/wp-blog-header.php';

Symptoms: Pages load just fine, and all appears successful, but, upon further inspection, all bbPress pages actually return a 404 error in the HTML headers (you can see this using FireBug, or using a HEAD command to the page). NOTE: This will also happen if you create custom pages (not WP “Pages”) that load the WordPress engine – they load fine, but actually throw a 404).

Explanation: What appears to be happening here, is that the page loads fine, because it is a real page. Internally however, WP doesn’t know about this page (because it’s a bbPress, or custom page), and so it assumes it’s a request for a permalink that it can’t resolve. Thus it throws a 404.

The internal rewrite system in WP allows you to add new rewrite rules, but appears to only like dealing with “internal” or WP-specific rules. If you add in what it refers to as “non_wp_rules”, then it doesn’t actually apply them (so it still throws a 404).

The FIX! on the code that I’m running, I have put the following WordPress plugin in place to add rules appropriate for my bbPress installation:

function mbob_flush_rewrites() {

global $wp_rewrite;

$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();

}

add_action('init', 'mbob_flush_rewrites');



function mbob_add_rewrites($wp_rewrite) {

add_rewrite_rule('forums/topic', 'forums/topic.php');

add_rewrite_rule('forums/forum', 'forums/forum.php');

add_rewrite_rule('forums', 'forums/index.php');

$wp_rewrite->rules = array_merge($wp_rewrite->non_wp_rules, $wp_rewrite->rules);

}

add_action('generate_rewrite_rules', 'mbob_add_rewrites');

NOTE: I have removed a lot of my bbPress installation as part of my integration, so I didn’t require any other rules to handle things like profile pages or tags – you probably will need to add them if you use those features.

Hopefully this will help someone else and prevent you from beating your head against a wall like I almost did

Thanks to sambauers for helping me out with this in #bbpress as well.

Beau

[Sam Bauers]

I assume that bbPress is in a sub-directory of your WordPress install?

Sounds like the rewrite rules are incorrectly set or the existing WordPress rules are somehow getting in the way of bbPress.

What type of permalinks are you using? Set that value to FALSE in your config.php if they are turned on and see if this still happens. I think that will narrow it down a bit.

[newyearwill]

I’d like to start off by saying what a fantastic piece of software bbpress is – I love the similarities with WordPress: clean HTML & CSS code. In my opinion it’s like a breath of fresh air compared to other forum software because you can easily customise it to fit your site. I just hope the clever designers and developers continue their excellent work with future releases.

…anyway enough of my rambling, here is my forum (still needs a few finishing touches):

http://forum.reclaimyourskin.co.uk

[fel64]

It depends where your bb-load.php file is (in relation to your wordpress wp-config.php). You may find it easier to give an absolute path rather than a relative path. http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/absopath.htm

[fel64]

What’s the fatal error?

[Erica Kapoor]

I added

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

in bbPress’ config.php

And I’m getting Fatal Error

Help me

[Erica Kapoor]

Thanks, Should “path/to/bb-load.php” this be like this?

“forums/bb-load.php”

I’m getting errors…

Would you explain little bit easier?

[fel64]

You need to include bbPress. To do this, make sure that your bbPress supports being integrated thoroughly with WordPress (not just users, also functions), then open your wordpress config file and at the bottom put require_once('path/to/bb-load.php'); That’ll let you use the bb functions too.

[Erica Kapoor]

I’m making website using wordpress and bbPress intergrated together. I want to put a login form in wordpress header using <?php login_form(); ?>. What should I do?

[rslater]

version 0.8.3.1 – bbpress and WordPress (Version 2.3.2).. Nt Box

Clarification Below.

do you now of any bugs in the synchronizing of wp an bbp. I am testing these sytems and having issues with email registrations. I get an email notification in wp letting me know there is a new registrant but no registration password and link come through. When you register in bpress nothing happens other then saying password was sent.

Even more odd is the fact that email notification for favorites in bbpress works just fine. I have no idea what the issue is. can anyone help me.. At this point I would donate to your cause if you can get this to work/synchronize.

sit is located at homesandagents dot com

[tommy2toes]

edit** I’m still playing around with it but it looks promising.

[tommy2toes]

I had some luck using wordpress Theme Functions.

For example my BBPress pulls the top header image, navigation and footer from wordpress. It does not pull between the <head> </head> tags. But this allows me to control the nav and header in one place as well as footer, so that everything gets updated.

If you have your bbpress install setup to use wordpress functions it’s pretty easy to do.

As for CSS, I hate the way other people code css so I always end up ripping it all out and starting from scratch.

Check out this page:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

[chrishajer]

What version of WordPress are you using and what version of bbPress?

[isopropyl24]

My installation page shows the following error messages at the top:

“PHP Error Message

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/a9286564/public_html/x/forum/bb-settings.php on line 169

PHP Error Message

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/a9286564/public_html/x/forum/bb-settings.php:169) in /home/a9286564/public_html/x/forum/bb-admin/install.php on line 10

PHP Error Message

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/a9286564/public_html/x/forum/bb-settings.php:169) in /home/a9286564/public_html/x/forum/bb-includes/functions.php on line 1910″

The only file I edited was the config.php, I tried to set everything up according to the instructions, here’s what I put in the file (minus my database info and email):

“<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

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

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

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘*my 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 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://xynson.890m.com/x/forum&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘New bbPress Site’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘*my email*’;

// 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 = ”; // 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 = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example:

‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://xynson.890m.com/x&#8217;; // WordPress –

Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://xynson.890m.com/x&#8217;; // WordPress –

Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example:

‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

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

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

?>”

[trex33]

I’ve finally narrowed down my forum choices to bbPress and Punbb. I love the speed and simplicity of bbPress but am struggling with this decision. Integration with WordPress is not an issue for me.

Does anyone have experience with both bbPress and PunBB? Which do you prefer and why? (I’ve compared both over at forummatrix.org to no avail)

My biggest concern with bbPress is the lack of email notification. Many users have no idea what RSS feed is. IMO, thread subscription is critical to forum’s success. I did see there was plugin for email notification. Are there plans to make email notification standard for bbpress? Does plugin do the trick?

[starnet]

So far, I experimented and if you comment out [$bb->wp_home] on config.php, it works. Enter the value of $bb->wp_table_prefix and $bb->wp_siteurl, and user table is being shared by bbPress and WP. Like here, I could have a WP user on WordPress.com and my user name will be valid for bbPress.org.

@intellivisio, I don’t know about the cookie part. I still have to investigate. My main intent was to be able to have the user input info only once so that they could be authenticated on both bbpress site and WP site.

@sambauers, bbPress did complain on install about cookies, but after I commented out $bb->wp_home, it continued with the install. I created a user once on one domain and it shared the user on both domains.

[citizenkeith]

I just tried this using phpBB 2.012 and bbPress 0.8.3.

This is the error I get:

Table ‘khanlon_db3.henskebb_users’ doesn’t exist

And that makes sense, since I already set up bbPress to integrate with WordPress. Since bbPress is using the wp_users table, the script doesn’t know where to put the phpbb users.

As it stands now, bbPress shows all the topic counts for each forum, but when you click on the forum, none of the threads are listed.

I tried exporting all the users using phpMyAdmin and importing into the WP table, but the threads are still missing.

[scienceprodigy]

Vili. I have Dan’s avatar thing working on my wordpress blog, and I have installed bbpress and have been having the hardest time getting the integration to work. I am not very familiar with php, so if you could tell me what I am doing wrong, I would be grateful.

I have bbpress installed in a subfolder one level up from my wordpress install in a folder called ‘forums’. I read all the comments here, and have looked at the Function integration part of the “Integration with WordPress” post per your suggestion. I added the code:

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

to the bbpress config.php file, and it throws an error when I load bbpress. I have tried using ‘wp-blog-header.php’ and ‘/wp-blog-header.php’ and ‘/’ and even ‘ ‘ as the path to the file, and nothing works, it throws an error every time. I even tried a backslash! lol

[Sam Bauers]

This information will only affect those following the bleeding edge of bbPress and WordPress development.

bbPress now has implemented in it’s trunk both the new “phpass” hashing for passwords and the new “authcookie” cookie methods which are slated for release in WordPress 2.5

This means that if you are integrating WordPress and bbPress then you can now test out the latest versions of each.

If you have any feedback or problems with integration then post here or on the bbDev mailing list.

[citizenkeith]

“I ported GamerZ’s useronline plugin for wordpress to bbpress awhile back. Been meaning to clean it up and release it one day.”

Any news on this one?

[citizenkeith]

I have tried baptiste’s changes, but I’m still getting backslashes when quoting text (using the Quote plugin).

I am integrating with WordPress, but I don’t use a WordPress Integration plugin, as referred to by RCanine. I’m using the bbPress Integration plugin.