[Driftless]

Interesting idea … I might try to work on that.

I understand the physics behind the why, but the reason I want it that way is the forum is a whole-world feature, the blog(s) is an in-house… and I don’t want the world mucking around in the backend of the blogs. Paranoia?

[grassrootspa]

@andywilliams244 Try this for a nifty nav bar that shows at the very top of your site (maybe use this at the very top of both your WordPress and bbPress site?):

1) Check this link out: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic55647.html

2) What you want to do is make a really simple PHP file, lets call it “andybar.php” (if you have trouble making one copy one of your .php bbpress files and rename it)

3) Copy the code from that page into the php file. (you probably want to open with Notepad or Wordpad)

4) Fill in the links how you want them to be, like:

<li><a href="http://www.andywebsite.com">ANDY_WEBSITE</a></li>

5) Save the php file and upload it into the folder of your theme.

6) Put this in the header where you want the bar to display:

<?php bb_head(); ?>

<?php include('andybar.php');?>

<br>

</head>

7) The bar should appear at the very top of your bbPress site. You can easily change the colors with the CSS inside that one php file.

You might need to play with the bbPress CSS if there is a spacing issue above or below the bar. Hope this helps!

[katastrov]

Thanks for the quick reply Ipstenu. It still doesn’t work so I went to the yahoo hosting control panel and set up a WordPress blog since the database can be shared. It gave me the username, password and database name. But now, whenever I’m trying to reach the folder (http://gufugumu.com/guillos) it redirects me to http://gufugumu.com/bb-admin/install.php which of course does not exist… I have placed everything in http://gufugumu.com/guillos/

any idea?

thanks in advance

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Don’t rename bb-config-sample.

Finally, I have also created the database in phpMyAdmin. Of course there’s 0 tables.

That’s fine You have to create the DB before bbPress can connect to it. bbPress doesn’t make the DB for you (any more than WordPress does so this should be familiar).

You should be able to run the install now, though make sure bbPress can write to the bbpress folder, so it can create the bb-config.php file as it goes (you can remove the access later).

[katastrov]

Hi everyone,

I’ve successfully installed PHPBB3 forums, WordPress blogs etc etc… and somehow, I’m having a nightmare installing BBpress…

I’m not a coding/IT guru but I’m not a beginner either so this makes the thing even more frustrated. By wanting to make the installation process easy, the description lacks a lot of details I believe. Here’s what I have:

– Yahoo web hosting

– MySQL Server version: 4.1.14

– MySQL client version: 3.23.49

– phpMyAdmin latest version

Steps:

1. download bbpress

2. upload it to gufugumu.com/bbpress

3. go to the url gufugumu.com/bbpress -> installation window appears fine

4. Step1 – fill the information

– Database name : guillos

– Database user : admin

– Database password : *********

Then comes the famous error : “There was a problem connecting to the database you specified. Please check the settings, then try again.”

So I can’t pass step1. I then look in the forum but could not find anything usefull. One would expect that installing a forum should not require advanced PHP or MySQL knowledge. This is quite annoying.

Also, if I try to remove the “-sample” from the “bb-config-sample.php” then I get the error message “ERROR: Could not establish a database connection”. Finally, I have also created the database in phpMyAdmin. Of course there’s 0 tables.

Any help would be extremly nice as I’m about to give up and go for PHPBB3…

Thanks in advance

[kipperman]

OK, thanks.

Done that and re-installed it. It completed saying:

Your installation completed with some minor errors. See the error log below for more specific information.

These read as:

>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> Could not fetch “auth” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “auth” cookie salt in your database.

>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> Could not fetch “logged in” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “logged in” cookie salt in your database.

Unsure about that but it looks painful!

The forum has at least opened and I seem to be in it.

[_ck_]

Only people that have rushed to the new version are in limbo.

1.0 has been out only a whole week now.

The alpha/RC phases didn’t help as more was changed afterwards.

One only has to study what happened to WordPress during it’s growing pains to see what will happen to bbPress.

GPL means you can republish the plugin, ie. post a link to a new download with your fixes. Taking over for an author within the extend section itself is another matter however and is best done with permission from the original author. Then someone like Sam can add you to the SVN. Rarely is it impossible to reach an author – they may leave bbpress but unlikely the entire internet.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

If WordPress is any indication, people just spin-off the abandoned plugins and make newly named ones with credit given. A branch, if you will.

Go ahead and submit them as ‘new’, but be a mench and credit where it’s due

[andywilliams244]

Thanks a bunch!

I’m trying to copy over my nav bar from my wordpress website, would that be possible?

Every time I try and copy over the code under “main” there an place it under “main” on the forum header.php it doesn’t appear.

[deadlyhifi]

although it may be a little put of date now, the principles are the same.

[deanes02]

Its just not working! Please help.

define( 'BB_AUTH_SALT', '' );

define( 'BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT', '' );

define( 'BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT', '' );

define('BB_NONCE_KEY',       '');

matches it wp-config equivalent (with values obviously).

Used the bbPress Integration plugin to get new values for the wp-config file and entered them

/*** bbPress integration ***/

define( 'COOKIEHASH', '998c6cb0a1fda1b22e40b1a75220d390' );

define( 'COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.www.MYSITE.com' );

define( 'SITECOOKIEPATH', '/' );

define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );

define( 'WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION', 1 );

I have checked through all the settings in bbPress WordPress Integration settings (in bbPress) and they all look correct.

XML-RPC is enabled.

I have seen that oterh people seem to be able to get this working. I have followed a few of these guides, but still can’t get it to work.

Would be great if you have any ideas! Thanks!

[kipperman]

I am setting up bbpress with WPMU intergration.

A couple of things are not so clear.

1. In cookie settings under WordPress “logged in” cookie salt it asks for a setting of “logged_in_salt” and gives a URL to my admin options to get it – onlt it isn’t on that page at all which is confusing. It says If you leave this blank the installer will try to fetch the value based on your WordPress database integration settings – which I can only hope it will.

2. Then in Show advanced database settings I came across something I had not know or considered. Can I give the forum the same database as my WP and enter the same settings in the set up? I have set up another DB for bbpress but it would seem to make sense to share the membership. Is it too late to change the DB here if so?

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

All done by now. Just wanted to share the upgrading instructions I wrote yesterday : http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/07/upgrade-existing-integrated-installations-of-wordpress-bbpress/

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Follow my tutorial http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/07/integrate-bbpress-10-with-wordpress-28/

and it should be fine. If not then let me know.

[eneko.astorkiza]

I have the same problem. I have integrated them and i can use wordpress users to login, but if i logon to wordpress i’m not loged into bbpress

Wp –> 2.8

bbpress –> 1.0.1

[chrishajer]

What versions of bbPress and WordPress did you install?

[Marcomail]

Could be an idea add related forum post in a wordpress entry using relation tags ? i don’t know if exist something similar

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I got it!

One more question – We can login through WordPress.org accounts too. I once checked that I can and was wondering its implementation and the thing that if I am logged into the same account or there are two accounts for myself?

[smi1ey]

ashfame’s guide is pretty clear on the steps. For me, the key was going to http://YOURSITE/wp-admin/options, grabbing the AUTH keys there, then pasting them in the correlating section of the bbPress config.php file in the install. Once they both had the exact same cookie codes in their config files, it worked like a charm.

[Kids Toys]

I have the same problem… any solutions?

[Driftless]

@Ashfame – You keep insisting that no plugin is needed – however, I could not make the integration work until I installed the plugin –

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

I have WP installed in a subdirectory, and BBPress installed in a sub-domain. The plugin helped me to discover how to a) make the cookies register in the same root domain, and b) define the cookie hash that was missing.

In short, although it may not be needed – it is useful. In my humble opinion.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Nice

[maramac]

Thanks for the advice about firebug – I solved it.

[maramac]

I read it and I already replied to it. That didn’t solve it. I did try it last night and it didn’t change anything.

I’m going to try out firebug now.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@maramac

Did you read my reply over bbshowase? Thats the way it can be solved. To help you in your aim, install Firebug on Firefox. Run it using F12 and then you can catch the DIV you want.

Hope that helps