[chrishajer]

Fourteen days is long? Or you get 14 days when you click the “remember me”? What is the default length for the cookie when you don’t click “remember me”?

[Aaron]

I may be thick but I cannot figure out how or where to change the gravatars. I have the implemented, and the default image shows up, but that is as far as I can get.

[Sam Bauers]

It’s native and built-in to the default Kakumei themes. Other themes can be quite easily adapted to use them too.

[skehoe]

I am currently installing bbpress in /bbpress/ on my web server. WordPress is already running in the root directory, and I am trying to integrate the two user databases. While the installation process seemed pretty straightforward, I ran into a couple issues fairly quick. First off, my wordpress config file didn’t have a lot of the values that bbPress wanted from it. There was no line for a secret key, and there was no a $table_prefix line but no wp_table_prefix line like bbPress asks for. After getting frustrated and messing around a little bit I tried using the prefix of wp_ to see if maybe that was the wordpress prefix (as the installer said wp_ is default) but all it ended up doing was causing errors and now I can’t even log in to change the setting back since it can’t find the user file. I even tried re-uploading a fresh version of the plugin and the settings stayed the same. What can I do to fix this and integrate with wordpress? Thanks

[serimu]

thanks for your reply, I am sending my httpd.conf, and htaccess files for wordpress and bbpress. Im also using gallery2 which is located at /somegalleryfolder. I use a plugin to integrate it with wordpress. But it has no problem, before or after I moved to the new vps. Bbpress is located at /forum folder. And its htaccess is contains only the code generated by bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php

I found my httpd.conf file, I dont know whether there is a security issue to put it here or not. But I hope it give you some idea about what could be problem:

#

# This is the main Apache HTTP server configuration file. It contains the

# configuration directives that give the server its instructions.

# See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2> for detailed information.

# In particular, see

# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/directives.html>

# for a discussion of each configuration directive.

#

# Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding

# what they do. They're here only as hints or reminders. If you are unsure

# consult the online docs. You have been warned.

ServerRoot “/etc/httpd”

Listen 80

#LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so

LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache/libphp5.so

#LoadModule suphp_module /usr/lib/apache/mod_suphp.so

LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache/libphp5.so

User apache

Group apache

ServerAdmin admin@localhost

DocumentRoot “/var/www/html”

<Directory /home/*>

AllowOverride All

Options +MultiViews -Indexes +FollowSymlinks +IncludesNoExec +Includes

<Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Limit>

<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

</LimitExcept>

</Directory>

<Directory />

Options All

AllowOverride All

</Directory>

<Directory “/var/www/html”>

Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

<IfModule mod_suphp.c>

suPHP_Engine On

suPHP_UserGroup webapps webapps

</IfModule>

</Directory>

<IfModule dir_module>

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.phtml index.cgi

</IfModule>

<FilesMatch “^.ht”>

Order allow,deny

Deny from all

Satisfy All

</FilesMatch>

ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log

LogLevel warn

<IfModule log_config_module>

#replace %b with %O for more accurate logging

<IfModule mod_logio.c>

LogFormat “%h %l %u %t “%r” %>s %O “%{Referer}i” “%{User-Agent}i”” combined

LogFormat “%h %l %u %t “%r” %>s %O” common

LogFormat “%O” bytes

LogFormat “%h %l %u %t “%r” %>s %b “%{Referer}i” “%{User-Agent}i” %I %O” combinedio

</IfModule>

CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log common

</IfModule>

<IfModule alias_module>

# Include some DirectAdmin alias

Include conf/extra/httpd-alias.conf

</IfModule>

<Directory “/var/www/cgi-bin”>

AllowOverride None

Options None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

DefaultType text/plain

<IfModule mime_module>

TypesConfig conf/mime.types

AddType application/x-gzip .tgz

AddEncoding x-compress .Z

AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .tgz

AddType application/x-compress .Z

AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

AddHandler type-map var

AddType text/html .shtml

AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

AddType video/x-ms-asf .avi

AddType video/mpeg .mpg

AddType video/mpeg .mpeg

AddType video/quicktime .mov

AddType video/x-ms-wmv .wmv

</IfModule>

#EnableMMAP off

#EnableSendfile off

#######################################################################################

# Do not change anything in included files, because they are rewritten by DirectAdmin #

#######################################################################################

# This is needed for PHP

Include conf/extra/httpd-php-handlers.conf

# Server-pool management (MPM specific)

Include conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf

# Multi-language error messages

Include conf/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf

# Fancy directory listings

Include conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf

# Language settings

Include conf/extra/httpd-languages.conf

# User home directories

#Include conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

# Real-time info on requests and configuration

Include conf/extra/httpd-info.conf

# Virtual hosts

Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

# Local access to the Apache HTTP Server Manual

#Include conf/extra/httpd-manual.conf

# Distributed authoring and versioning (WebDAV)

Include conf/extra/httpd-dav.conf

# Various default settings

Include conf/extra/httpd-default.conf

# Secure (SSL/TLS) connections

Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

# Deflate module settings

Include conf/extra/httpd-deflate.conf

# All the DirectAdmin vhosts

Include conf/extra/directadmin-vhosts.conf

# All suPHP directives

Include conf/extra/httpd-suphp.conf

# All the other includes needed by the custombuild script

Include conf/extra/httpd-includes.conf

#######################################################################################

# End of included files that are rewritten by DirectAdmin #

#######################################################################################

<IfModule ssl_module>

SSLRandomSeed startup builtin

SSLRandomSeed connect builtin

</IfModule>

and this is my wordpress .htaccess file, it is in root folder for the domain

php_value upload_max_filesize "50M"

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# END WordPress

# BEGIN Url Rewrite section

# (Automatically generated. Do not edit this section)

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} gallery_remote2.php

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/wp-gallery2.php$

RewriteRule . – [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} view=core.DownloadItem

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Referer} !^[a-zA-Z0-9+.-]+/www.domain.com/ [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Referer} !^$

RewriteRule . /wp-gallery2.php [F,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} g2_view=core.DownloadItem

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} g2_itemId=([0-9]+)

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Referer} !^[a-zA-Z0-9+.-]+/www.domain.com/ [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Referer} !^$

RewriteRule . /galery/main.php?g2_view=rewrite.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=%1 [L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /sitemap(?.| .)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/wp-gallery2.php$

RewriteRule . /wp-gallery2.php?g2_view=sitemap.Sitemap [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /tags(?.| .)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/wp-gallery2.php$

RewriteRule . /wp-gallery2.php?g2_view=tags.TagCloud [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /admin/(?.| .)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/wp-gallery2.php$

RewriteRule . /wp-gallery2.php?g2_view=core.SiteAdmin [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /comments/add/([0-9]+).html(?.| .)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/wp-gallery2.php$

RewriteRule . /wp-gallery2.php?g2_view=comment.AddComment&g2_itemId=%1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /comments/([0-9]+).html(?.| .)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/wp-gallery2.php$

RewriteRule . /wp-gallery2.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=%1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /([^?]+)/slideshow.html(?.| .)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/wp-gallery2.php$

RewriteRule . /wp-gallery2.php?g2_view=slideshow.Slideshow&g2_path=%1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /photo/([^?]+)(?.| .)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/wp-gallery2.php$

RewriteRule . /wp-gallery2.php?g2_path=%1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /([^?/]+)(?.| .)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/wp-gallery2.php$

RewriteRule . /wp-gallery2.php?g2_view=tags.VirtualAlbum&g2_tagName=%1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /([^?]+)(?.| .)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/wp-gallery2.php$

RewriteRule . /wp-gallery2.php?g2_controller=permalinks.Redirect&g2_filename=%1 [QSA,L]

</IfModule>

# END Url Rewrite section

#

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule .* http://www.domain.com/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ?(ref=.*)? HTTP [NC]

RewriteRule .? http://www.domain.com%{REQUEST_URI}? [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ?(referer=.*)? HTTP [NC]

RewriteRule .? http://www.domain.com%{REQUEST_URI}? [R=301,L]

Redirect /x/ http://www.domain.com/y/

Redirect /a/ http://www.domain.com/b/

and this is bbpress .htaccess located on /forum folder, and my bbpress is also located on /forum. And I dont call wordpress from bbpress and I dont call bbpress from wordpress. I use integration method expressed in faq section of bbpress documents. And my setup was working before I moved to the new vps.

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /forum/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]

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

RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([0-9]+)$ /forum/rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]

</ifmodule>

[jimluu2]

Hi. Can you help design a simple vbulletin theme that matches the default wordpress theme? If you know of one that looks similar already please let me know.

Thanks.

[rich! @ etiviti]

Fresh install of WP2.5 and BB.9.0.1

Within bbpress admin, i setup the maps to from WP -> BB roles

When creating a new user from the WP admin screen, selecting a role of any selection, it will default to the standard member. (verifying by looking under the bb admin user screen)

My solution was to just change the bb_capabilities meta_value to the desired role level of new seeded users.

[_ck_]

I’ve never figured out why the default theme doesn’t have a link to the search page. It’s some kind of weird oversight or maybe the designer was anti-search, pro-tags.

[Munnday]

I am sure the team with have bbPress out very shortly – afterall WP2.5 was only just released.

@MUN33B: As far as I can tell from the nightly build I have been using, the sending password to email is still the default setting for bbPress (as it is with WordPress). In terms of comparing it to MyBB (which is a great bit of software – the team should be proud) it’s a bit hard – bbPress is intended to be a lightweight forum solution, minimal on features but highly customisable – where at software like MyBB tends to have all the features built in.

Well that’s my 2 cents anyway

[Daniel Quinn]

I’m working with a local fresh install of bbpress and I can’t activate any plugins. (Whenever I click Activate, it says “Are you sure you want to do this?” and seems to be adding an extra backslash in the URL whenever I click YES). If I manually put the URL to activate into the browser without the extra backslash, bbpress spits out a fatal error and doesn’t activate the plugin. I’ve got bbpress working on my web server with all of the plugins, so it’s a problem with the local installation.

The local server is Apache and my config.php looks like this:

$bb->uri = ‘http://localhost/cindyfish&#8217;;

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

(database is working fine, I can click all links in the forum)

I tried changing the uri to just http://localhost/, but then I can’t access the admin panel.

The only edit I made to the core was to modify:

$activetheme = bb_get_option(‘bb_active_theme’);

to

$activetheme = stripslashes(bb_get_option(‘bb_active_theme’));

as instructed in this post:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/theme-not-found-default-theme-applied#post-8889

…so I could get my custom theme recognized.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Actually, I CAN activate plugins if I manually paste the URL into the browser and remove the extra backslashes; it failed on the path to url plugin by nanome (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/updated-to-desmond-but-theme-not-working/page/2)… would be nice tho to create a hack that could fix this for local installations on Windows

EDIT2: Okay, it also seems that bbpress adds the extra backslash only if the plugins are in individual folders. For plugins that sit just in the my-plugins folder, the local installation can activate them fine. Otherwise they have to be linked manually.

[pad]

Hi

The role mapping has always been set in the admin, but I clicked ‘Set Role Map’ again – didn’t work. Did a test registration from bbPress… the user in WordPress has ‘no role for this blog.’

Again, I sign up in WordPress, the user in bbPress is ‘Inactive.’

Could this possibly be something to do with the Role Manager plugin in WordPress? If it is, it’s weird as my default role is still Subscriber…

I really want to sort this ASAP as members will be seeing the forums from next week and it will be bad if they can’t access one or other section until I’ve manually changed their roles.

[Sam Bauers]

Go to the WordPress integration options page in the admin and set the user roles at the bottom of the page. Doing so will update any existing users lacking roles in either WordPress or bbPress.

Once the user role mapping is set it will add roles to WordPress as well as bbPress from then on when a user registers in bbPress. WordPress registrations is another matter though, I thought a subscriber would have defaulted to being a member in bbPress. I.e. if they had user data but no role the default is to make them at least a member. Can you check this?

[chrishajer]

Is it possible the files were corrupted upon uploading? Seems like it’s a server configuration thing, not even related to PHP or CGI. You should be able to view this file, for example, but you cannot:

http://www.kreativoase.at/taufkerze/forum/bb-images/bbpress.png

In fact, it’s an internal server error code 500, but the server is configured to show this error message, which might be misleading. If you have access to error logs, that will help determine what’s causing the 500 error.

If it’s something applying to that directory and all lower lever directories, maybe there is a problem with the .htaccess file (if you are using one) in the forum directory. Do you have a proper .htaccess file? Please post the content here. I am starting to think an error in the .htaccess file is the problem for it to cause a 500 error on the forum directory or any subdirectory you try to access.

Permalinks on false is good.

bbPress does not need its own database, but it does need a database, and the table prefix will be bb_ by default. So long as that doesn’t conflict with any other tables you already have, it’s OK to use an existing database.

[kehlers]

I’m just following up – I posted this bug a while ago, and when I didn’t hear back, I researched and found the solution. (wahoo!)

PROBLEM:

If private-forums plugin is installed, users below moderator capabilities will have a BLANK Pick a Section dropdown on post-form.php. If they go ahead and try to click “submit” on their post, they get an error: Forum topic is closed. (error is bogus, obviously, because they are trying to post a NEW topic).

SOLUTION

In the /my-plugins/private-forums.php, replace line 294:

$new_forums[] = $forum;

with:

$new_forums[$forum->forum_id] = $forum;

WHY IT WORKS

The $new_forums array replaces the global $forums array with just the forums that user is permitted to see. The $forums array uses the forum_id as the array index. Without this fix, the $forums array will have the default index, i.e. 0, 1, 2, 3…

If your forum ids are (a) ordered numerically by their id and (b) no numbers are ‘skipped’ in the ids, you may not notice this issue. However, in my case, my forum ids are in the order “6, 7, 1, 10, 9” because we have added and deleted and reordered them over the life of the forum.

Hopefully this helps someone.

Cheers,

k

[Jason]

Green Home Forums

Spun this up within a few hours using a modified version of the default Kakumei theme. I found it was very easy to add a custom header and logo to.

[_ck_]

I’ve noticed there is a serious problem with the way the CSS works for the default Kakumei theme (and any other theme based on it).

As you add information to the post author field on the left, it will start to vertically overflow and start to overlap the next post. This is because the designer unfortunately decided to use a shortcut via position:absolute making it impossible to clear:both columns.

Here’s how to easily fix it by appending two simple lines to the very bottom of the style.css and no need to search for and edit/replace other lines.

.threadauthor  {position:relative; float:left; margin:0 -110px 0 0; right:110px; }

.poststuff {clear:both;}

If you don’t want to edit any core files, simply put this into a plugin (make a new one or any existing one)

function fix_kakumei_css() { echo '<style type="text/css">.threadauthor  {position:relative; float:left; margin:0 -110px 0 0; right:110px; } .poststuff {clear:both;} </style>';}

add_action('bb_head', 'fix_kakumei_css');

Tested working in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari for Windows. Would appreciate MAC browser feedback?

(I will attempt to automatically include this hack in my plugins to help avoid edits since it’s usually my plugins that add so much info to the left but the new gravatar in 0.9 will also cause the overflow)

Should actually be a core fix now that I think about it.

[Craig]

Hello,

I am running a gaming community’s web site. Currently I just have bbPress forums up there while I build up the rest of the site’s content. What I needed is Private Forums!

I know there is a plugin for Private Forums. However, it just restricts based on the three default groups (Members, Moderators and Admins) … this does not do me any good since I need to give access only to the members of the actual group, not just the forum. Is there anything out there to help me?

[_ck_]

I should note that mdawaffe has pointed out to me that apparently bbPress would do this previously if the user has referer’s enabled in their browser. But since most “personal firewalls” block referers by default, you can’t count on that behavior and this change will make it always work instead.

0.8.4 will supposedly have this new ability by default…

[chrishajer]

That type of pagination happens here and in a default installation within a topic, but not between topics. Are you looking for what exists here or for pagination for the older topics?

How about something like this?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/previousnext-thread-navigation#post-10592

You can also search the forums here for pagination and find more interesting things.

[scrumtralescent]

Hi, chrishajer.

This is what I see in Firefox: http://thelifelesstraveled.com/forumInFirefox.jpg

However, if I view the forums in Safari, it looks great (just like the default theme should look and how it looks in your screenshot http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/tlltf.png).

[chrishajer]

The forum has style, it has the default kakumei theme applied. Here’s what I see with Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Windows XP.

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/tlltf.png

If you are expecting it to look like something else, maybe you need to select it in your admin panel. But there is a theme applied, the default one. That’s different than saying it has “no style”. It has the default style, not a broken path to your stylesheet or theme.

[scrumtralescent]

Hi, chrishajer and howtogee,

Yes, this is the URL: http://thelifelesstraveled.com/forums/

I’m running FireFox 2.0.0.12. How strange that it looks OK to you guys and not to me. I don’t have adblock installed and I can’t find any settings in my preferences that look like they would affect how the forums page is displayed.

I can see the default theme used here just dandy: http://cutline.tubetorial.com/forums/

[_ck_]

This should fix it: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/usernames-i18n-fix/

I need to find out if this is fixed by default in 0.8.4

[chrishajer]

Please post the URL where the problem can be viewed.

I have a default theme just fine in Firefox and IE7 here:

http://thelifelesstraveled.com/forums/

[chrishajer]

There is no admin notification of new registrations by default. Sounds like it could be done with a plugin.