Our group is looking at setting up a forum on our Web site. However, one of the things we want is for it to ONLY be accessible by members of our group as items we discuss are amongst our members only.
Is it possible to do with with bbPress?
Example, if we have 50 companies as part of our group, the Administrator could be the only person who would set up access for people in this group. No other person could join so that any information or questions posted would only be able to be read and accessed by whomever is part of the group. In other words, no other person could join, like I just did here, and be able to access the forums.
Any help is appreciated. thanks!
Duane
Strange is that this problem occurs only with member names. In the forum posts the umlauts are displayed correctly.
I use wordpress integration…in wordpress the member names are displayed correctly. Only in bbpress the umlauts are not displayed correctly in the member names.
Looks like that information is stored in the bb_meta table in the bbPress database, with the following values:
meta_id: autoincrement
object type: bb_option
object_id: 0 (always zero in my case)
meta_key: these 4
user_bbdb_name
user_bbdb_user
user_bbdb_password
user_bbdb_host
meta_value: your database name, user, password and host.
Screenshot: http://chrishajer.com/bbpress/cloner-userdatabase.png
HTH
I think a patch was posted. Have you tried that? https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1209
I think this is a host configuration problem. A function bbPress needs (open_basedir) is not being allowed on the server.
Where does bbPress physically store the wp-user database name, location, user, and password information? That’s what I want to know. This is the information the installer asks for in step 3. The wp-database password changed, but I don’t know where to change it in bbPress to make it work properly, again.
here’s a second one for ‘deep integrating’ with WP ( our customers struggle with that 
http://www.pagelines.com/posts/deep-integration-with-bbpress/
Wait, is this just an installation procedure or integration procedure?
First is installing bbPress, second is deep integrating..
Hi!
I was going to try bbPress out today, but I can’t install it. I get the error message:
Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/web/se/bb-config-path.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/tmp:/usr/lib/php5:/usr/share/php:/web/se/www.xxxxxxxx.se) in /web/se/www.xxxxxxxx.se/bb-load.php on line 141
Am I missing something. I’ve tried to download both .zip and .tar.gz and the missing file isn’t in any of the packages.
Please help me out!
Best Regards, Magnus
Chris,
The forum was set up and functoned for years with the split databases. Posts are saved in the bbPress db, whilst users are saved in the WordPress db. Now, for some reason, bbPress cannot read the user info from the WordPress db. I’ve tried to reinstall, but once I’ve completed “Step 1” and click the button to move to “Step 2”, the page is redirected to the forum homepage and I never get an opportunity to get to “Step 2”. I assume the installation script realized that there is already an installation of bbPress present and refuses to go further.
My questions is, how (in the code) are bbPress and WordPress tied together? What could be fouled up that makes it impossible for bbPress to read the existing user data from WordPress?
I searched a little harder and found some responses to the same question. Sorry for not looking before! I am going to try setting the time zone for bbPress to match that of my server’s.
When installing bbPress you can choose to use a different database for the user table. Here’s a screenshot from step 2:
http://chrishajer.com/bbpress/step-2.png
This is present when installing 1.0.2. I don’t recall when it was added. But you will need to replicate those settings to use a different database and table for your users.
I should probably try to install using this procedure before linking it up. I will try to do that today and follow your tutorial.
Wait, is this just an installation procedure or integration procedure? I have not watched it yet.
So a while ago now I moved my SMF site to bbpress and very successful it has been however I have only recently properly integrated my WP blog and bbpress. This now leaves me 15 WP members and the 3 or 400 forum members are gone. How do I import these BB press members and their meta data into WP. There is some talk o fthis on the forums but it is incoherent (for me). Is there a simple way to import them. Or to make the bbpress user table the default on instead of the WP user table.
bbPress markup sounds suspiciously like hyper text markup.
bbpress markup requires < > not [ ] around the tags.
This new forum has just been installed, but I have noticed – as I write a guide for non-English users of the forums in Japanese – that bbcode does not seem to be working. The url is http://www.language-global.com/language/forums/ but it might be quicker just to tell me if the following bbcode ‘tags’ work on bbpress :
[ul][li][/li][/ul] & [strong][/strong]
The message beneath the posting box includes all of those in the list of allowed markup, but none of them are working at the moment. Have also searched the admin area for some control over bbcode but couldn’t find any.
Very happy with the look and feel of bbpress after wrestling with a certain WP plugin for almost two days without achieving what I have achieved with this forum in one afternoon.
Thanks Kevin,
@Chris, any chance we could get a link to these resources in the docs?
We’ve also put one together for Deep integration that we’ll be posting soon…
What do you mean about the bbPress querying the WordPress database for user data? I thought most posts are showing up as Anonymous?
If they are different database, then that explains the problem. You want to install both WordPress and bbPress inside of a single database, if they are going to share users. This guide to integration might be useful.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101
It’s a bit outdated, but I’m guessing it will give you a nice lay of the land.
They do not have the same dbname or dbusername. They are different databases, but somehow all of the user data is stored in the WordPress database and was (but isn’t now) accessed by the bbPress database.
In all this mess, the dbpassword for the WordPress database changed, and I was wondering if the bbPress install has a refugee outdated password for the WordPress database stored somewhere within its directory. Either this is true, or there is some other method by which bbPress queries the WordPress database for user data.
How do they link to share the user info in WordPress? I have a SQLdump of both databases, and only the WordPress one has user info in it.
When I integrate a WordPress and a bbPress install, I use a single database to hold both installs… that way, they can share the same users table.
Is your WordPress and bbPress data stored within the same database? One quick way to check that is to compare the config files for both: do they refer to the same database name/username/pw?
I have a valid dbname, dbusername, dbpassword, and dblocation in the bb-config.php file in the directory of the bbPress install. That seems to be correct, as bbpress now displays all of the posts from that database. Go to http://www.mh900e.org/parlare to see for yourself what I mean.
However, there is another database, used by WordPress, that I believe has all of the user info in it that is shared by both bbPress and WordPress. Does bbPress store information on the WordPress database somewhere so that it can retrieve user information and credentials? If not, how does it go to that database to get the user info? I think the “link” between bbPress and the user information in the WordPress database is what’s damaged or missing.
Any thoughts?
The MySQL database name/username/password is at the top of the bb-config file:
http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/bb-config-sample.php
What DB name/username/password do you have in the current bb-config.php file? (I’m not asking for the actual info – please don’t post that, as that pose a security issue!)
I’ve changed both keys to a much simpler phrase and things still don’t work.
Anyone know where bbPress gets it’s keys to query the WordPress database?
Moving along with my understanding of this system, I hope.
If I understand this correctly, somewhere in bbPress there is an area where the information for the WordPress database is stored so that bbPress can get the user table from it. Where is it stored?
I believe the password for the WordPress database changed and I need to change it where ever it is. I thought maybe it was in bb-config or bb-settings, but I don’t see the correct db name and username there anywhere.
Does anyone know where bbPress stores WordPress database info?
