[chrishajer]

I doubt that. Right now, bbPress gets so far as making sure there is a bb_table_prefix and fails because it cannot see that. It hasn’t gotten so far as doing anything with the database since it has no table prefix to work with.

How about the permissions on the bb-config.php file. Should be 0644, readable by all, writable by owner only, executable by no one. 0644 is safe for all the php files in bbPress.

Do you know what PHP version and MySQL version you’re using?

[chrishajer]

The bb-config-sample.php won’t be a problem. bbPress uses that when there is no bb-config.php as a template to create a bb-config.php for you. I’ve always edited the sample by hand and just renamed it. In either case, gone or not is fine.

[chrishajer]

Received the config file. I am guessing that is is actually named bb-config.php. It appears to be correct to me. I’m not certain what is causing your error.

The only time that error should show up is when that variable is not defined. Here’s the code that checks for bb_table_prefix being set:

// Die if there is no database table prefix

if ( !$bb_table_prefix ) {

die( 'You must specify a table prefix in your <code>bb-config.php</code> file.' );

}

So, for some reason it’s not set or not recognized as being set. Are you certain when you moved the files out of the folder that you moved everything? Since you haven’t installed yet, can you save a copy of your bb-config.php, in case you need it, then just upload everything from the bbpress folder that is unzipped from the download onto the html root of your server (probably right where it is now.)

[chrishajer]

Sounds like it can connect fine. But it sounds like the variable name is wrong or something. bbPress doesn’t care what your table prefix is, just that you have one.

Can you email me your bb-config.php and I will look at it first hand? Please don’t edit it first since you might destroy some evidence or something important that was edited. You’ll just have to trust me. I’m not going to do anything evil with your config.

If you don’t want to do that, find someone local who can look at this and see what’s up. It’s probably going to be something very simple that another set of eyes will see.

chrishajer [at] gmail.com

[jeffreyw4]

Yes, bbPress (or other message board software) will be the basis of the site.

[jeffreyw4]

I admit I read instructions very literally. The instructions say:

# Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site

# You will be greeted with the bbPress installer

If the instructions had said: visit http://www.example.com/bbPress/ then I would have done so. I don’t know, perhaps this is what “Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site” means. This is difficult to decipher since, having never used bbPress before, I don’t know precisely what the final (“intended?”) URL will be. I assumed it would just be the URL of the website.

So should I uninstall, reupload with containing folder intact, and access with “http://www. example.com/bbPress/”

[chrishajer]

buddha trance explained it pretty clearly, for adding the links to your header.php:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/question-about-integration#post-60365

Did that not work for you?

[chrishajer]

The only reason you might want to not have the files in a folder of some sort is if bbPress if going to be the basis of the site, the only thing accessible. Otherwise, you want bbPress files in a folder, called bbpress, or forum, or forums, or discussion, or community, or something else.

[chrishajer]

If you uploaded the files in the folder that was called “bbpress” by default, and it was in your website html root, then it would be accessible at http://www.example.com/bbpress/ and your site, if you have a site, will be at http://www.example.com. Was that not your experience?

[jeffreyw4]

Thanks for your reply.

Well, as I said, I originally uploaded it with the containing folder included. So the server didn’t “see” any of the files. It just read the default page which is a “this site is coming soon” html file.

Once I uploaded without the containing folder the server saw the files and a screen querying for database info appeared.

I’m not sure what you mean by “the” file structure. There isn’t much on the server before the bbPress files are uploaded. I left only the bare bones before uploading bbPress to avoid confusion.

J

[chrishajer]

Heh, completely misread that one. It’s even easier to put a link to the WordPress site in your bbPress header. Just modify the template file to put the link where you want it.

[chrishajer]

Then it says that “You will be greeted with the bbPress installer”

Of course this didn’t happen.

If that didn’t happen, then the host is configured wrong or you visited the wrong URL. You need to figure out where you installed the software. Then you can work on the configuration.

What does the file structure look like, and what is the site URL and bbPress URL?

[jeffreyw4]

Hi,

So I uploaded the uncompressed files as instructed. Which of course come wrapped in a folder. Not being instructed otherwise, I uploaded the entire folder, wondering silently how the server would know how to handle the files.

Item number 4 carries the rather cryptic instruction to “Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site” which I think means to go to the website to which the bbPress files have been uploaded. Which I did.

Then it says that “You will be greeted with the bbPress installer”

Of course this didn’t happen.

Okay, so I figured you must have to remove the containing folder after all. So reupped the files now in unwrapped form.

Having done this a screen did appear which queried for database info. I entered all of that and it said that it “couldn’t establish a connection with the database”.

So I went into godaddy and created a new one thinking perhaps the password was wrong (though I checked it three times).

Maybe this was my undoing: I looked at the Godaddy instructions for installing bbPress. They claim you should edit the bb_config file directly. So I put in the database info for the new database. The sticking point is always the host name which everyone defaults as ‘localhost’. But that doesn’t work with Godaddy. So I pulled the hostname from the Server variables and settings and put that in the quotes. I upped that and….

Now it is saying I have to edit a table prefix which I assume is this line:

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’;

I really have no idea what would go here.

Any ideas??

Thanks for any help.

Jeff

[jurasiks]

Telepat requested.

Please provide more info: old bb-config? old database?

[jackie911hk]

I also have this problem on the installation of BBPress. Please see below screen print-out.

http://www.jackie.net/error.jpg

[jackie911hk]

I also have this problem on the installation of BBPress. Please see below screen print-out.

http://www.jackie.net/error.jpg

[youreviltw1n]

I have tried twice now to install BBPress and for whatever reason it does not work. After going through the installation process, I get this message: “Forum could not be created!”

When I go to the address of where my forum should be, I get this message: ” Oh dear!

bbPress is already installed.

Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?”

When I click “upgrade script” nothing happens. Any advice?

edit: Nevermind, I did some voodoo and somehow it all worked.

[buddha-trance]

I am using this plugin, with just normal integration, to call the forum latest posts in the sidebar of my blog, and it works great.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wp/

[buddha-trance]

I believe that the issue was the reverse, that is: how to add the blog menu onto the forum.

If this is the case – the way I have done it – you edit header.php of your forum theme and add the menu tabs there, to match the ones of your blog. Make sure it is a custom theme and add it to my-templates folder, or you will lose it when you upgrade bbPress next time (if left as the default Kakumei).

Just after

<div id="header" role="banner">

you add the html for the tabs (for id “navigation” add it to the style sheet). For example:

<div id="header" role="banner">

<ul id="navigation">

<li><a href="blog url" title="Main Blog">Blog</a></li>

<li><a href="forum url" title="Forums">Forums</a></li>

<li><a href="another page url" title="Whatever Page">Whatever Page</a></li>

<li><a href="contact page url" title="Contact Me">Contact Me</a></li>

<li><a href="about page url" title="About">About</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

Hope this helps.

[chrishajer]

There was this:

http://bbxf.org/

I don’t think there is an export feature in bbPress. What sort of importers exist for the forums you’re looking at?

[InvTrdr]

I am looking for control over which links can be “follow” and which can be “nofollow”. A plugin will render them all “nofollow”. Is there a way to make bbPress accept rel=”nofollow” next to the a href tag?

Thanks.

[mdolf]

I’ve skinned up the BBPress Kakumei theme and am running into a layout issue that I can’t problem solve.

As you can see on this screenshot, the title “Latest Discussions” above the ‘Latest’ table is getting pushed to the right of my screen (i put in a red box to show the problem). On Safari it acually pushes the whole table as well.

http://www.aists.org/images//problem-screenshot.jpg

I have scoured my html and css and am not expert enough to figure this out. Can anyone suggest how to resolve this?

Thank you very much

[miletjs]

I really need a way to export posts from bbpress to punbb / fluxbb

can someone help me point to the right direction?

[chrishajer]

You do not need integration at all to put a link to your forum in your top menu.

How to put a link to forums on my WordPress navigation menu

But it’s even simpler than that. If you put your bbPress installation in a folder (subdirectory of where WordPress is) called “kitty-cat-talk” and you create a WordPress page called “Kitty Cat Talk” with a slug of “kitty-cat-talk” – the link will be in the menu, and clicking the link will send visitors to your forum. The way WordPress .htaccess and mod_rewrite works with pretty permalinks is that it looks for a folder first (or a file) and if a folder with that name exists, serve that. So that is what happens with a page like this. Your WordPress page will have no content, it will just send people to your forums, assuming the Page slug and the folder you installed into are the same.

There also also ways to call the page whatever you want, and do a custom redirect to your forum. That is detailed in the link I sent. There are a couple plugins that can do that for you.

http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/page-links-to/

http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/custom-field-redirect/

And then there is the template way someone linked to in that thread.

It’s pretty easy and you do not need integration at all to just have a link in your WordPress menu to your forum installation.

[fifthhouse]

I am going to install a bbpress forums with my wordpress blog. I am trying to understand something.

I want to have the menu from my blog appear in my bbpress forums. My question is: Does this mean I have to do “deep integration” as described in the documentation on integration where it says:

“bbPress will not have access to WordPress’ functions unless you manually tell bbPress to load WordPress first. This integration step is also known as “deep” integration, “

Does my wanting to have the top menu from my blog appear on my bbpress forums fit into the category of “WordPress’ functions?” as described above?