I know some people had that problem because their server did not use php5.
I have never used that plugin, it has always worked without any need for the bbPress integration plugin.
All i had to do was set the integration through bbPress installation and backend.
I have installed the plugin now, and added that string to the wp-config
It looks like I cant be logged in in both at the same time though… when Im logged into wp, i must login again into bbpress… and the wp login disconnects automatically (so i would have to reconnect again).
Is there a way to not have to login every time I change wp <-> bbpress ?
All values under the cookie section of /bb-admin/options-wordpress.php must be changed according to the WordPress values.
WordPress URL
Blog URL
Cookie salt “auth”
Cookie salt “secure auth”
Cookie salt “logged in”
also make sure to:
1) delete the old cookie before making your tests.
2) check values of bbPress Integration plugin (/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress-integration-admin)
3) change COOKIEPATH according to what the bbPress Integration plugin reports
just showing my gratitude!
Because the documentation is so.. not existent.. you were really nice in helping me out on this one 
I have another question though…
Now it wont detect my login on bbpress, when Im connected already to WP.
I changed the wp security keys in WP, and put the same auth/secure/logged_in/nonce key from wp config inside bbpress config file.
I also added define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.mydomain.com’); but it’s still not detecting that i already logged in from wp.
When i try to access bb-admin, I fill in user and pass from wp, but i get redirected to the forum homepage.
Maybe the auth keys (salt or else?) must be reconfigured in the db as well (because i changed the wp ones in this new server) ?
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Whoa.
this kind of info should be set in the config file
As far as I know you can define USER_BBDB_NAME, USER_BBDB_USER, USER_BBDB_PASSWORD, and USER_BBDB_HOST in bb-config.php but I don’t know if it is the right way of doing things. There is no documentation.
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Thank you so much, I missed exactly this information!
One little suggestion for the next BBpress release… this kind of info should be set in the config file, like everything else… users should not wander around in the database 
I found this post https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/functions-for-generating-a-menu-of-wordpress-pages
This doesn’t work for me, it makes my forum blank before even asking for the script. When I create a function.php file and put everything in it. I hope this can help steer you into the right direction.
Sorry I was trying to explain it without full explanation or linking to my test site.
I’m trying to imitate the buddypress default theme for bbpress. They have a button under title called Public Group. You can see an example here in blue. http://testbp.org/groups/testgroupp-1060610747/forum/topic/a-forum-topic/
I wanted to do the same in my bbpress theme that the button says Public Forum or Hidden Forum depending on what it is. Does this make sense now?
they each had one separate db
I didn’t know this. Open phpmyadmin and check table bb_meta:
user_bbdb_name
user_bbdb_user
user_bbdb_password
user_bbdb_host
put on the new values.
No, why would they be?
They werent equal in the old server either… they each had one separate db.
I set the integration with wp from the bbpress installation and backend.
I think the problem is exactly that: i can change db info for BBpress easily now, but I cant find where to edit WP db settings for the integration (is it stored in the DB directly? ) so its causing a db connection error because bbpress is trying to connect to the old WP db?
Suggestions?
Are the settings:
define( 'BBDB_NAME', 'bbpress' );
define( 'BBDB_USER', 'username' );
define( 'BBDB_PASSWORD', 'password' );
define( 'BBDB_HOST', 'localhost' );
equal to WordPress counterparts?
Individual files, like icons, php files, js files, can be 644. Directories should be 755.
755 forum
755 my-plugins
755 topic-icons
755 icons
644 bbpress.png
I have hidden forum plugin: http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/
How do I do If this is a hidden forum print out “this is a hidden forum”?
It looks like your page is crashing before it’s done rendering… this page seems to end abruptly on this line:
<li id=”post-4″ class=”alt”>
http://forums.moochyschwag.com/topic.php?id=3
Can you look in your template files and see what the next line of PHP is? I’m guessing it’s somewhere in your topic.php template…
http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/bb-templates/kakumei/topic.php
Once you can figure out what’s causing it to crash, maybe we can change your server settings…
I literally just replaced every file on the server except the config file. I checked both themes: kakumei and kakumei blue. And it’s still gone. 
No plugins are active or even on the server except Askimet, Bozo Users and Hello Louis all of which are disabled. Is there another version of bbpress I can use?
Hello,
I recently moved a WP site + BBpress to another host (but im using the same domain), so I set up whole new DB for each, and imported the old DBs.
WP is working fine, I just had to edit the wp-config file and it connected perfectly to the new db (with the old data imported).
The problem is BBpress now. I thought that just editing the DB info in the bb-config file with the new DB would have been enough, but it’s now giving me this: ERROR: Could not establish a database connection
But I know that everything is correct! (i use a plugin on WP that retrieves all the topic from BBpress and it is retrieving everything from the new BBpress DB).
I wonder if there’s more I should edit? but where?
Could the problem be that WP and BBpress were integrated? Where can I change the WP integration info for BBpress? Maybe BBpress is trying to find the old WP db info on the old server?
Help please
Thanks for the tip.
Info for the people having the same problem, there are two tables in mysql:
bb_usermeta
wp_usermeta
After integration (in “my case”) bbpress was fetching data from the wp_usermeta. I added new record: user_id = X, meta_key = ‘bb_capabilities’, meta_value = ‘a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}’ (where X = wp admin id, in my case = 15). Done, I have got all options.
forum/my-plugins/topic-icons/icons/bbpress.png
it’s in the folder but all I get is “Error 403 – Forbidden You tried to access a document for which you don’t have privileges.”
What should the permission be for:
my-plugins?
topic-icons?
icons?
individual files?
Someone integrated wordpress with bbpress. Now admin panel for the bbpress shows only users, topics and posts. Is it possible to fix it ? Is there a way to manually (by the phpmyadmin) activate new plugins ?
To go deeper into that code a code that does “forumS” for more than one and “forum” for just one?
$tf = get_total_forums();
printf(__ngettext('Viewing %d forum', 'Viewing %d forums', $tf), $tf);
functions.bb-statistics.php isn’t automatically included. The statistics.php file (https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/tags/1.0.2/statistics.php#L5) does include that file as well.
Okay I will have on my header the Forum Names as “Pages”
Installation – Troubleshooting – Themes – Plugins – etc
When I’m on the Troubleshooting page (https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/troubleshooting) the class of trouble shooting will be “selected”.
<li><a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/installation">Installation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/troubleshooting" class="selected">Trouble Shooting</a></li>
make sense?
You’re right. I had a different experience though:
I didn’t even know there was an “undelete topic” function. I deleted this topic, with your one post. Then I undeleted the topic in the admin, and while it was undeleted, there were no posts in it. So i was able to view a topic with no posts in it. When viewing that as moderator, I was able to undelete the post and then it was visible.
I’d say this is worth opening a ticket at trac.bbpress.org but I would like to see if we have two different problems here.
Might maybe be related to this as well:
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1150
