Ah I see. That exact error has been reported by someone else using the latest bbPress together with Hidden forums… and they even suggested a patch to functions.bb-forums.php that they claim fixed the issue!
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/when-there-is-no-forum-to-display-warning-is-generated
Or if I’m reading this correctly, you could also create a general folder and leave it as public… so that there’s always at least one forum, and it’s never null?
There are some discussions on the subject (and links to plugins) here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username
Hope that helps!
Hey Chris! I guessed the url from Steve’s profile link… and was able to reproduce the issue he mentioned:
http://www.stevenmbooth.com/bbpress/
I did notice one strange thing – when I signed up for an account and clicked on profile, I got a Redirect Loop error in Firefox:
http://stevenmbooth.com/bbpress/profile.php?id=3
Things like “tags” or “topic” can be translated directly within .htaccess file, as for the “post-name” – I think there’s no way to manipulate this yet, it is being sanitized deeply within bbPress core.
Ah shouldn’t have assumed it was htaccess. This is from an earlier post:
500 Internal Server Errors are usually either related to your .htaccess file or to your file permissions:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/500-internal-server-error-1#post-13073
Here’s a number of reports from users who ran into similar issues – it was usually resolved by one of those two solutions:
https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/500-error
Maybe try the permissions angle? Or if not, you could browse the 500-error tag for other possible approaches…
OH, let me check that out… thanks!!!
But thank you for your time!
Before I spend a lot of time trying to customize this, I want to know if the discussions i have with clients in bbpress (I plan to download a plugin to allow me to make a discussion hidden except for a specified user), be also logged in the client’s profile on wp?
– also can thumbnail images be uploaded into a forum post?
– has anyone tried to integrate a shopping cart or even paypal button into a profile on bbpress before?
At first blush, I’d guess that it was an issue with your htaccess file. Did you set one up?
https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks
Just did some research for ya – looks like this issue can be caused sometimes by problems with htaccess files:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/243002
Is it possible that when installing bbpress, the htaccess file was changed and that caused some of these issues?
I managed to get my 1.0 bbPress installed (after having to manually edit the database), and bb-admin works just fine (or appears to), but when I browse to the bb itself, all I ever get is a 404 error. First, I’ve checked the obvious. ‘index.php’ exists in the bb root directory, and everything *seems* to be fine. Is there a log or something somewhere that tells me what it was trying to do so I can debug this?
Thanks in advance, ye BB-ers!
Steve
I am not sure how to determine that 
Hmm, maybe post the code to the part of the template where the problems are occurring? We can look for potential conflicts with bbPress code…
Thanks, I will. It was after I installed bbPress that this started to happen…
@leggo-my-eggo
Sorry i should have update the plugin here in, but if you are download from the plugin from wordpress.org there are 3 filter support release on 22-6-2009 
More info can be found here.
http://www.atsutane.net/2009/06/update-bbpress-latest-discussion-v1-5.html
Well, there were lots of steps. Mostly it was changes to the CSS so the first step would be to take a look at my CSS. I didn’t change any non-theme related files. The plugins I’m using are BBcode buttons toolbar, BBcode lite, bb topics view, and post Count plus. Probably the main thing I do different is that regular users shouldn’t see the admin pages of BBpress. Instead they get redirected to the wordpress admin pages.
Sambauers put a great video together on how to get wordpress and bbpress working together:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast
One day we’ll start a install4free like wordpress but until then,
if they just want a basic install, start giving out this free service:
http://www.simplescripts.com/script_details/script:bbPress
supposedly works on most major hosts including:
* Bluehost
* Hostmonster
* Fastdomain
* LunarPages
* HostGator
* SiteGround
* GoDaddy
* WebHostingPad
* LiquidWeb
* StartLogic
* iPowerWeb
* Dot5Hosting
* MidPhase
* 1and1
Try creating a new role with this plugin (v 1.0 compatible)
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/role-manager/
Then use this plugin to set it up so that your new role always has access to all forums:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/
That way, you don’t have to disable registration… new users won’t be able to penetrate the hidden forums, no matter what.
Well, yes, it goes away. B/c that whole space is used by the forums instead. Weirdly, there’s another forum running 1.0 where it works fine. It is just this one that is having the issues…
I saw this thread too – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cannot-login-hide-forum
Which had a similar issue but was then fixed…
Maybe try posting to the WordPress forums?
Unless there’s a connection to the bbPress install that I’m missing…
WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL) are both set to http://iphonecustoms.com.
I fixed the “Leave a Comment” links that were linking to my forum by changing the settings in Settings>Permalinks to “default”. (It had been set to iphonecustoms.com/forums/ somehow.)
So the comments on my homepage actually work now… however on all my other pages, my “Leave a comment” links are still not doing anything. The comment links came built in with my “Black Splat” theme, and I tried to replace comment.php from original theme and still nothing happened.
What is listed under WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL)?
Also – what code in your WordPress template are you using to generate those comment links?
yes… my links are pointing there… and I do not know why! And on this page:
http://iphonecustoms.com/written-tutorials/iphone-3g/how-to-jailbreak-w-redsn0w-on-windows
The comment link just keeps you on the same page but adds a “/#comments” to the end of the URL? I checked Options page, and nothing has changed.. nor does it look like any of those options would change the situation? Here are my options:
Blog Title
Tagline
WordPress address (URL)
Blog address (URL)
E-mail address
Membership
New User Default Role
Timezone
Date Format
Week Starts On
any suggestions? thank you so much for your reply.
I flawlessly installed bbPress yesterday to have a forum to go along with my website: http://iphonecustoms.com. However, on all my posts and pages, I have a “Leave a comment” option towards the end, and it either links to my forum.. or nothing at all!! Can someone help? I just would like my comments option back.