[hatter]

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[Kayak too]

Hello!

I’m having trouble with the bbPress installation, and haven’t been able to get the forum up and running.

I’ve got WordPress 2.8.6 installed on a test site (it’s up and running fine), and I wanted to also have a forum on the same site. I want to try bbPress because of the possibility of integration between WP and bbPress. It would be nice if users could log in once, and be able to post comments on the blog portion of the site or post messages in the forum side of the site, and not have to manage two separate logins.

I downloaded bbPress 1.0.2, uploaded it to my web server, ran the bbPress installer, and entered the info requested, including the MySQL settings for database name, database username, database password,

MySQL hostname, and clicked “Continue” (or something to that effect). The message I got back was that it had a problem opening the database. At this point, I noticed there was a checkbox or something like that on the installer page where I could enter additional details, so I clicked on that, and it asked for ‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, and ‘NONCE_KEY’.

I remember generating these keys the last time I upgraded WordPress, so I had to download the wp-config.php file from my server and poke through it for these strings, but I found them, so I entered them into the bbPress installer page.

In addition to those key strings, the bbPress installer page was also asking for “salts” for each of those keys. I had no idea what the “salts” might be, but when I clicked on the help button next to the entry field, it said that if you didn’t have this it would check with the server during installation.

So I left the “salt” fields blank, and clicked “Continue.”

An installation log was generated, and I saved it as a text file. I won’t put the whole thing in this message, but the installation process modified the database tables without problems. In Step 2 of the process (WordPress integration), it reported “WordPress cookie keys set” and went on to “Fetching missing WordPress cookie salts.” It said that the WordPress “auth” cookie salt was successfully set, but the next one was where the trouble may have begun, as it reported WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt NOT set. The WordPress “logged in” cookie salt was set OK.

Finally, in Step 3, it listed the site settings for me. But one of the lines read “Forum could not be created!”

Following that line were two lines reporting that directories were established for my plugins and themes. I used my FTP program to check my server, and those two directories were indeed created.

And, of course, it summed things up by saying “some errors encountered during installation!”

But at the same time, there was a message that I should go to http://www.mydomain.com/bbpress, and that the forum should launch.

I went to that page, but every time I do, I get redirected to:

http://www.mydomain.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php

Where the message says:

Oh dear!

bbPress is already installed.

Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?

Well, no, I don’t want to run the upgrade script, since I’m trying to do a first-time install.

So, I don’t know where to proceed from here.

One question in my mind is if the installer script was able to find and set the salts for three of the keys OK, why couldn’t it set the “secure auth” cookie salt?

Second question is why do I get a page telling me bbPress is already installed, when the installation script says the forum could not be created?

Any guidance anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.

[shansta]

oh i worked it out….

Added

a:2:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

to the admin user in phpMyAdmin

edit: Only problem is cannot logout using bb-login.php?logout=1

anyone know why?

[shansta]

Hello,

I think I have these two integrated and working but seems to be a problem with the bbpress keymaster having access to the wp-admin area. The only solution I have so far is to have 2 admins…

one for WP ( a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;} )

&

one for BB ( a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;} )

I have set the role in the bbpress-admin for wp-admins to be keymasters but it doesn’t seem to work…

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

[josh16]

I don’t mean to sound picky but SimplePress looks like a cluttered mess. It’s like trying to integrate an SMF board with wordpress and they don’t even look the same.

I guess I got used to the simplicity of bbPress. I’m still going to use it, however, as long as bbPress.org is up and running and the WP.com forums uses it. This only means less themes and plugins.

[Nuul]

I think there is more going on behind the scenes then we know. Sam leaving all of a sudden, no one continuing this project and no reaction from any wordpress developper (or Matt). Seems like they are letting this project die (and just gonna buy simplepress in the near future??).

It’s a shame…

For _ck_ any change we can acces the forum (but lock all topics and dont allow new ones to be created) so we can still benefit from the knowledge already posted there?

Greetz Nuul,

Damn, just as I am on the edge of releasing a cool new plugin

[Olaf Lederer]

Thanks Steven, for posting this announcement.

Really bad that it looks like that bbpress has not some great future.

Actually I think about to convert my bbpress forum into a wordpress site using a theme that looks like a forum

Can’t be so difficult, the whole structure of bbpress looks too much like wordpress

(… another XX hours lost in the development of bbpress plugins)

[Macmenddotcom]

I have integrated my test forum with wordpress. Both have seperate databases and are on the same host server but bbpress is in a sub-directory, Wp is in the root. WordPress has 4 members bbpress has 300, afterwords bbpress has only 4 members, why is that, it seems like instead of integration wordpress details have overwritten bbpress…any one able to help

[chrishajer]

You need to create a theme for bbPress that looks like your WordPress theme. That is how most people do integration.

I’ve also heard of people using a iframe to put bbPress inside a WordPress page, but I don’t recommend that.

[lokrin2000]

Ok, I had no problem with the integration. Both WP and bbPress are working and the users are sharing fine.

Now, HOW DO I get either

1) WordPress to show the forums inside it?

or

2) bbPress to look like the template I have for wp? Template is customized Mandigo theme.

[chrishajer]

If you have an account at wordpress.org forums, you can log in with those details at trac.bbpress.org. I’m not sure how else to create an account that will work there.

[arpowers]

Any news on this subject?

A fix for this, or even info on it so I can design themes to it would be very helpful.

I would say that BBPress isn’t fully compatible with WordPress; until at least the ‘navigation’ plugins that work on WP work on BBPress as well.

[arpowers]

Any news on this subject?

A fix for this, or even info on it so I can design themes to it would be very helpful.

I would say that BBPress isn’t fully compatible with WordPress; until at least the ‘navigation’ plugins that work on WP work on BBPress as well.

[Matias Ventura]

Hi Matt,

I am a twenty–something designer who profoundly enjoys creating efficient and elegant websites, with abilities focused in CSS/XHTML, WordPress/bbPress theming and Photoshop. I also have a great interest in writing. My portfolio.

I would like to be part of developing documentation regarding theme functions: something in which WordPress excels at and which further allows designers to work more fluently. As a theme designer I often had to explore bbPress core files looking for functions and their behavior in order to develop a site. This was done mostly through trial and error due to the lack of a function reference document. Then maybe even contributing with more quality themes or a restyle of bbPress while also promoting the development of things like P2 in WordPress to show the range of possibilities of bbPress. As a reference, you might register in this website I created to check how some aspects of bbPress were enhanced through theming (encouraging posting by displaying it more prominently though non obtrusive) for a particular project.

[Macmenddotcom]

its no problem now I have created this profile which is fine, but thanks for responding

[chrishajer]

I never knew you COULD log in here with your wordpress.org login. I just tested it and it does work, which is cool. As for the password, I would try to change it wherever you registered. If you registered at wordpress.org, I would change it there and see if you can log in here.

Other than that, someone with more experience than me will have to come up with some additional ideas.

[Macmenddotcom]

And it refuses to allow me to reset my password why is that?

[Jeroenrs]

I’m very new to this, I installed WordPress a few days ago and now I’d like to install bbPress. The installation of WordPress went great, but when I try to install bbPress, I get the “There was a problem connecting to the database you specified.”-error. So there must be something wrong with the data I filled in, what did I do wrong?

Database name: b4_4599254_forum

Database user: b4_4599254

Database host: http://ftp.byethost4.com

Thanks.

[TrishaM]

@chrishajer – I’m not sure – I use 1&1 for hosting but I can poke around to see if some logs are available and report back…

@buddha trance – yes, after the <?php but I appreciate the troubleshooting 101

FWIW, I also tried several other things I found in the docs for integrating, such as require_once with the path to wp-blog-header.php but as mentioned everything I try to load WP first so I can access it’s functions causes the 500 error.

I haven’t given up yet, though! I’ll keep trying a few things and report back this weekend….

[federalist1]

Just redid a fresh install of bbPress with integration and everything worked until the error on the last step.

Now I have two problems:

Users can’t post in the forums. Is this because the restore of old posts from an SQL file failed?

Visitors can’t see the pages on the wordpress page without logging in.

Since the database is now shared, how can I clean up the bad bbPress restore?

[buddha-trance]

When you say you added the line to the top, you mean after the opening tag

<?php

… just in case…

[buddha-trance]

There is a thread discussing export capabilities for bbPress, where the project “bbxf.org” is mentioned by chrishajer. Maybe you can ask him there, if the alpha version of the plugin they have on Google Code can be used for your purposes. That is, export bbPress as an XML file and import it into WordPress.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importexport-work

The alpha version can be also found on the site of one of the developers, Dan Larkin.

http://www.stealyourcarbon.net/category/bbxf/

You could give it a try with a fresh “test” install of WP, and a full bbPress database backup…

[alexglewis]

This is a VERY minor issue, but I think it’s worth pointing out.

I’m working on integrating a BBPress installation into a WordPress site. As I work with the client, I like to name the folders containing the current theme/template with the version number, to make it easy to backtrack to older designs.

So for example, theme version 0.1 is in a folder named client_theme_v0.1, version 0.2 is in a folder named client_theme_v0.2, and so on.

This works fine in WordPress, but NOT in BBPress. If I include a period in the BBPress template folder name, it breaks the template—BBPress doesn’t find the style.css file. So instead of using periods in the version number, I have to use (shock! horror!) underscores. As in, client_theme_v0_1. *Shudder.*

It would be nice, in a very minor way, if I could use periods in BBPress template folder names.

[latestart]

Thank you Chris, but the only folder title that is capitalized is my Blog link. The rest is in lowercase letters.

The folder is in my server. My domain name is http://www.latestartermusician.com. The “Blog” part is wordpress which I would like to integrate with bbpress. I put the bbpress under the directory forum1. But it still brings up the page not found error http://www.latestartermusician.com/forum1/bb-admin/install.php

Wow, I really hope I can get it to work. Bbpress seems like the forum I’ve been looking for.

Thank you for all of your help so far.

[chrishajer]

Ohhh, for the first post, toddmccalla, you were installing bbPress as a WordPress plugin, that was the problem. bbPress is not a WordPress plugin.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/header-invalid#post-60960