[chrishajer]

As summae says, you are missing some folders. There should be subfolders under forum1, but there aren’t any. You need to upload all the files and folders exactly as they are distributed by bbPress. You should at least have these 4 folders once you install, directly beneath the top level forum1 folder:

bb-admin

bb-includes

bb-plugins

bb-template

[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.

[mrsparex]

Fortunately I’ll not be able to hear people laughing at me but I just bought hosting from Siteground (great service by the way) and they uploaded bbpress for me. I believe I found how/where to upload in the “my plugin” file. It asks where to download from… well….when I try to save the plugin download onto my computer it defaults to save it with notepad (offers internet explorer too). When I save it with notepad and then view the file it looks like wingdings on bad drugs. I know this is a silly question for most here…but how do I save a plugin download with Vista? (go ahead and laugh my speakers are off) LOL …I must to learn more basics before I can do this it appears. oh yeah….my site is pennyforums.com Thanks!

[Brian]

Hi there, jumping in on this discussion. According to your second photo in this last post, you’ve a bunch of files where they shouldn’t be. If you uploaded bbpress via ftp, (I highly recommend Filezilla, and it’s free), it should look something like this:

http://summaestudio.net/images/screenshot-1.png

As you can see, there is no install.php in my forums folder, and there are the folders bb-admin, etc. It seems like you somehow may have uploaded the files w/o maintaining the file structure.

[Josh Leuze]

Steve, it looks like the link in the original post is working again:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/wmnkhayal/files/phpbb3tobbpress%20converter.tar.gz

[buddha-trance]

It is working now! Tried with Firefox, Opera, and Safari. All is back to normal. Thank you

[Null]

Seems OK in Opera 10

[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….

[hpguru]

bbPress is best forum platform. Should not die under any circumstances at any stage.

[hpguru]

In this forum is negative posts on one main forum. Any fix? Moderator notified weeks ago.

[buddha-trance]

@hpguru – It looks like it’s a site problem, then. Hopefully, now that the word is out, it will be taken care of. Thanks for replying!

[hpguru]

Same problem to me.

[buddha-trance]

Hi there. I’ve tried with different browsers, but get the same results. It seems that the footer is missing from the Plugins/Extend section on the bbPress site, so the pages are cut off half-way down. Plugins can still be downloaded, but one cannot read the discussions there. What’s going on? Is anyone having the same problem?

[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]

@vanesta – You have a point. What I am hoping, is that this is only a transition phase after Sam left. Looking at the people interested in helping out with the development of bbPress, I believe that things will keep moving. I doubt that bbPress will die, considering the integration with BuddyPress, WPMU, the supposed merger with single WP, etc.

Hopefully, things will pick up momentum again…

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-out-with-bbpress

[vanesta]

Automattic is funded and have enough money to hire a lead developer to take charge (same way as wp), what Matt posted really gives me the chill when it comes to bbpress roadmap

“As to where bbPress goes in the future, I’d be curious to hear who wants to help with that.”

[buddha-trance]

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

<?php

… just in case…

[buddha-trance]

Really? I doesn’t seem abandoned at all, according to this thread, started by Matt (creator of WP)

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/future-of-bbpress

[vanesta]

It is truly dead, automattic has sort of abandon this project since Sam left

[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…

[noz]

Hi,

To change it open ‘bb-avatar-upload.php’ line in my-plugins/ 173

>> add_profile_tab(__(‘Avatar’) …. >> put ‘Image’

[xanderashwell]

Hi Olaf,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Thanks also for your plugin solution for changing user’s information fields, I actually found the solution on the finalwebsites’ forums, but re-posted your fix in the forum here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-profile-information

You’re a life-saving bbpress & php wizard, and you deserve a shiny gold star for your good work.

[asterix35]

I just tried again, i got the white screen when i click on “check for configuration file” button.

I’ve also tried to chmod 777 the config file, i still get the same results.

I tried to put wrong dbname, user, password within bb-config.php and i got an error message telling me that mysql info are not correct, therefore i assume that when i put the good credentials bbpress was able to connect to the mysql database.

I’ve also tried to delete the mysql db and recreate everything (new db, new user) and i still have the same error message. This is driving nuts

[Null]

It’s kinda dead atm. Even big plugin suppliers like _ck_ seems to be abandoning this project. It’s a shame

[chrishajer]

Here are the requirements:

https://bbpress.org/about/requirements/

What does this mean?

created/pasted the content of the config within bb-config.php

Also, the relevant info from your phpinfo(); would be the PHP version and the MySQL version. Thanks.