I found that the problem affected all my domains hosted on that account, and every subfolder in all those domains.
I called GoDaddy.com and they were unable to fix it. The best I can figure is that somehow I caused it with a mix of adding and removing virtual directories.
I ended up having them cancel that whole hosting account and creating a new one, and then I restored all my domains from the backups.
As soon as the DNS info repopulates out through the net, I will be able to test to see if wiping clean and starting over… fixed the problem.
@yutt (or is it Skull Man?) & Dailytalker:
I agree 100% with your points. ‘Simplicity is a feature’ and ‘less is more’ are great slogans, but it’s impractical to require someone to find/research/download/upload/configure zillions of plugins to do extremely basic forum tasks that are taken for granted with other programs. I want a stable forum program that contains basic features that aren’t going to stop working if a plugin developer walks away or won’t update them to work with future bbPress builds. I love bbPress but find it just too stripped-down and feature-less out of the box. Would be great to see more optional features you can use or turn off like Gravatars. The default text input interface in-particular leaves much to be desired.
Plugins like Topic Views should be incorporated into the base feature-set of BBpress as well as things like Widgets and the ability to edit themes or plugins from within the admin.
I am not a professional programmer and really admire and appreciate those who develop plugins, such as NightGunner5, Paul Hawke, Michael Adams etc. Going out on a limb here, I would guess it would not be too difficult to incorporate SOME of the more popular plugin features into the Core (especially focusing on _ck_’s best stuff as she will likely not be back). Again, I’m not talking about building in Nintendo emulators or Weatherbug displays but why the heck should someone need a plugin to display how many times a topic has been viewed?!?
@all:
Something I think base minimalists and more-base-feature advocates like yutt & Dailytalker would all agree on is that that bbPress’s admin should display plugin update notifications like WordPress’s admin does. This would be extremely helpful for everyone, especially when security risks are discovered in plugins one has running.
Haha, I bet even kevinjohngallagher would agree with me on this one!
1) Hmm, you can really install bbPress in any folder but here is a popular setup (buddypress like this one): Try this:
Let’s say your site is leftcoastmichael.com.
In your ‘wordpress’ leftcoastmichael.com directory you have 3 wordpress file directories (wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes)
Just make a 4th file directory (forums) for all your bbPres stuff (bb-admin, bb-includes, etc).
Blam, that’s it.
2) If you want to integrate with WordPress use the same database info that you used in your WordPress config.
Hope this helps.
I read the documentations but, alas, it is not clear (to me).
(1) It does not explain which directory to upload/install to. I have uploaded to a folder in the root called “lclforum” however the wp files, templates and database are in a separate folder called “wordpress.” Should the bbPress files be in a sub-folder of the WP folder?
(2) Name of database. I am prompted for the database name, however there is no database (yet). There are no instructions for what to do at this point. Should I just input a name like “lclforumdb” ?
I’m sure I’ll have more questions, but these are the first two that are keeping me from getting up and running.
You are right! It happens with any other directory on my site!
So maybe this is a hosting set-up issue. At this point it seems it has nothing to do with bbPress.
I so appreciate that you folks were willing to take a few minutes to help! Because of you I am closer to sorting this out.
I will lurk around inside my hosting settings on GoDaddy.com and see if I can figure out what’s up.
For example, try this directory with and without the slash:
http://authorstock.com/media
http://authorstock.com/media/
Same sort of redirect happens. Looks like it’s a configuration issue with the server.
Checked from command line on Linux and it redirects if you don’t use the slash:
[~]$ curl -I http://authorstock.com/forum
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Content-Length: 168
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Location: http://authorstock.com/authorstock.com/forum/
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:36:34 GMT
[~]$ curl -I http://authorstock.com/forum/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
X-Pingback: http://authorstock.com/forum/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:36:40 GMT
Can you access any other directories and get the index file instead of a redirect? Is there a way to ensure that index.php is the index file for the directory?
1. In the IIS Manager, double-click Default Document.
2. Click Add, then enter index.php and click OK.
I just tried again using Apple Safari 4.0.4 on a Win XP SP3 system. Problem is reproducible.
In all three browsers the OS stayed the same.
@chrishajer: Your test was also on Win XP. Common element?
Thanks.
Well, at least I’m not crazy. 
OK, I am using IE on a Win XP SP3 system. Problem is reproducible.
Now, I am using Firefox 3.0.16 on a Win XP SP3 system. Problem is reproducible.
@ipstenu
What OS are you using? And what browser?
Thanks for your help.
It’s broken for me, using Firefox 3.5.6 on Windows XP. clicking without the slash gets me http://authorstock.com/authorstock.com/forum/
Thanks Michael.
Just a precision : ‘a canonical WordPress plugin’ means that it will be something like “akismet” ?
Could it be a standalone, then ?
Wordpress is a very heavy “small forum”, no ?
for citizenkeith :
this is more a philosophy than a features list, but I agree …
I think it also miss a point from which we are suffering now : a “viable future”. Every software need to be sure that the support will be continued for a long time. Specially when it is meant to build a community, which is much than needed for bbPress (just thinking about plugins)
I should have mentioned I am on an IIS 7 server, so there is no .htaccess file, and I removed all “rewrite” rules from my web.config.
Thank you for clicking, and for reporting that the site is working fine for you.
That must mean my problem is local only to my PC. How could that be?
It is definitely still showing the same problem. Just tried again even as I was typing this.
???
Would anyone else be kind enough to click and report if you can repro the problem? Thanks.
This one looks great… but the Release page isn’t available, any chance it’s still out there somewhere?
What’s in your .htaccess?
I can’t repro that and if I use forum or forum/ it works fine for me…
So has anyone found a way to convert painlessly from Vanilla to BBPress?
Hello!
I just downloaded and installed the latest version of bbPress — version 1.0.2.
In the database ( bb_option | uri ), we see the full URL to the forum:
http://domain.com/folder/
Now, if I type that address into a browser, the forum loads fine.
However, if I type it this way (without the trailing frontslash)…
http://domain.com/folder
… I get redirected to this:
http://domain.com/domain.com/folder/
Which leads to nowhere!
To see this in action, paste or type these two URIs into your browser:
http://authorstock.com/forum/
http://authorstock.com/forum
…With the only difference being the trailing frontslash.
Argh! Can anyone help me know how to fix this?
Thanks!
Hi, I tried again. This time I uploaded the team inside bb-templates – and it works just fine.
Why am I supposed to put themes in folder named “my-templates”?
This is what I want from future bbPress releases:
1. Open Source, always and forever
2. Less (code) is more
3. Simplicity is a feature
4. Speed and security are the foundation of any good user experience
5. Put the user first
This list can be found here:
https://bbpress.org/about/
Thanks to chrishajer for pointing it out earlier in the thread… I think it sums things up nicely.
rickxxx’s reply was deleted. This is not a topic for feature requests, it’s a place to offer to help with bbPress.
thierryyyyyyy:
A lot of ideas are being thrown around at the moment, and things are going slowly. It’s like that for a reason. The next version of bbPress will be one that is clean, robust, and easy to use.
At the moment, it looks like bbPress will become a canonical plugin for WordPress. As with most Automattic products, I think this was the idea in the first place.
Closer to the time, Matt will share updates as to a more narrowed path for bbPress.
I’m a long time bbPress user, and invested quite a big time to update from 0.9 to 1.0 some months ago.
I really, really don’t want that bbPress dies.
I need a standalone version of bbPress, even if I somehow integrated it into my wordpress but just for user.
I really don’t ask for another new complete bbPress version. For me, that means a very long time for re-adapting (some customs plugins and hacks and integration with a custom website-script)
Like Chrishajer, the basic features of bbPress are my ground requirements. Specially since the old plugins usually works with small adaptation.
I participated some times in the forum for such adaptations.
The best part of bbPress features, is “Fast and light”. Which is not anymore the main characteristic of Worpress.
enougth said about what’s my point of view, I would like to ask one more time
“What’s happening with bbPress?” (topic title)
The bbPress blog is not that clear, and the “meetup”s are not really easy to read.
You’ll need to hook get_user_profile_link and get_profile_tab_link. I don’t think there’s anything else you’ll need to do.
@Ben L. Thank you! It was “User Roles Table for bbPress” it was installed, activated but not “on”. Once I turned it “on” it worked.
