[Hard Seat Sleeper]

Sorry I hate to open another integration thread, but I’ve tried to understand this a few times and still don’t get it.

I have a wp blog and a bbpress install. They don’t share the same database.

The wp blog only has 1 or 2 users, the bbpress has a few thousand. What I want is to integrate these 2 so that if someone logs into the bbpress, they are also logged into the blog so they don’t have to re-enter their login credentials when they post a comment on the blog.

My wp is 2.7 and bbpress is .9.

Does anyone have any advice on how I could achieve this? Or should I upgrade my wp and bbpress and try it then?

Thanks.

[ITguy]

John, this were I ended up:

1. Log in as admin to bbPress and went to admin->settings

2. Enabled ‘bbPress XML-RPC publishing protocol’ in the ‘Writing pane’

3. In the ‘WordPress Integration’ pane set WordPress Administrator’ to ‘bbPress Key Master’ role. All others to ‘bbPress meber’ and saved the User Role map.

4. added:

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ”);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

define(‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘e6bd245d6e82566f2fdcff73419dd3da’ );

to both wp-config and bb-config files

5. Copied the 7 unique authentification keys from the wp-config file to the bb-config file adding ‘BB_’ in from of each variable name.

6. Added to the end of the bb-config file, just be the closing php code:

$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;

Saved bb-config.sys

7. Moved buddypress-enable.php file to the my-plugins folder under the forums folder and activated it.

8. In the WPMU admin pane selected the BuddyPress->Forums Setup and enter the forum URL, as well as the WPPU admin name and password.

9. Logout of BuddyPress and bbPress. Logged in to BuddyPress, changed URL to forum, needed to log in, however changing back and forth between the two now needs no further logging in.

10. Created a new group on the Buddypress site with ‘Enable discussion forum’ selected. Forum is created and visible on the bbPress site.

11. Enter a topic and comment, bot show up on both sites.

END of good news. Here is what is not working:

1. No user integration, only admin works, any other WPMU user is not recognized on the bbPress site.

2. Existing group’s discussion are not creating forums when toggling the ‘Enable discussion forum’ option.

3. Only admin can create topics and comments within the group forums (due to problem #1).

I have done this now 3 times over, reinstalling bbPress (deleting the forum folder, the bb_ tables and bb_ entries in the wp_usermeta) and following the steps above which is a combination of your ‘Forum Integration: Helpful Hints’ posting and the added steps regarding the cookie integration posted on ‘The Easy Button’ and the ‘UMW Wiki’.

I not sure what to do next to get this right

[camperadmin]

Hi All,

(Newbie) I just installed bbPress and elected to integrate with WordPress, no problem initially. I then did something stupid, I saw a path name http://www.mysite.com/forum/forum/… and thought I had created a nested set of folders with the same name in my directory. It actually was the name of the first forum. So–I deleted the installation and the corresponding page in WP and then recreated the directory, installed the files, created the page again and this time, I could not get past step one of the installation. As soon as I click step 2 it goes to my root domain. I assume that there is now an entry in the wp database for the path and I can not change it. When I try to load that page, I get the login page, however it lacks the theme but does have the description I have in the original install (so that data survived my delete) and when I click submit I get a 404 page. I don’t know what to do to reset things. Please help!!

[Marcomail]

Why there isn’t a bbpress version totally integrated with wordpress ? I would a BBpress with the same user db, the same login panel, the same registration page. Is there a possibility to see this in the future ? Thanks

[camperadmin]

Hi All,

(Newbie) I just installed bbPress and elected to integrate with WordPress, no problem initially. I then did something stupid, I saw a path name http://www.mysite.com/forum/forum/… and thought I had created a nested set of folders with the same name in my directory. It actually was the name of the first forum. So–I deleted the installation and the corresponding page in WP and then recreated the directory, installed the files, created the page again and this time, I could not get past step one of the installation. As soon as I click step 2 it goes to my root domain. I assume that there is now an entry in the wp database for the path and I can not change it. When I try to load that page, I get the login page, however it lacks the theme but does have the description I have in the original install (so that data survived my delete) and when I click submit I get a 404 page. I don’t know what to do to reset things. Please help!!

[zixpk]

Hi guys. My name is Kenneth L. and I run the website http://www.zixpk.com/. Ive been trying for many hours today to install bbpress and get it up and running. My hosting is on Godaddy. I was wondering if there was anyone out there who would be willing to install the forum for me, since I have no clue on how to do it, (and the instructions are confusing).

At this point I am even willing to pay someone. Please help.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I am sure that I am doing something wrong here.

This is the vhost for the domain :

server {



listen   80;

server_name  mydomain.com;

rewrite ^/(.*) http://www.mydomain.com/$1 permanent;



}



server {



listen   80;

server_name www.mydomain.com;



access_log /home/public_html/mydomain.com/log/access.log;

error_log /home/public_html/mydomain.com/log/error.log;



location / {



root   /home/public_html/mydomain.com/public/;

index  index.php index.html;



# Basic version of WordPress parameters, supporting nice permalinks.

# include /usr/local/nginx/conf/wordpress_params.regular;

# Advanced version of WordPress parameters supporting nice permalinks and WP Super Cache plugin

include /usr/local/nginx/conf/wordpress_params.super_cache;

}



# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000

#

location ~ .php$ {

fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

fastcgi_index index.php;

include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/public_html/mydomain.com/public/$fastcgi_script_name;

}

}

I have added the rewrite rules for bbPress in /usr/local/nginx/conf/bbpress_params.regular

Now where should I add include /usr/local/nginx/conf/bbpress_params.regular; in my vhost file?

[John James Jacoby]

Phew! haha!

I’ll be around if you have other problems.

[ITguy]

THANK! That did the trick Will let you know how the rest of the integration goes.

[John James Jacoby]

If your bbPress installation is malfunctioning (or incomplete) go ahead and delete all of those out of there, as they will only get in the way.

Delete those entries, delete cookies, and give the install another try.

I think this is the same issue I had, with the user_id of “0”. The other odd thing to note, is that all of those say “member” instead of “key master”.

[ITguy]

@johnjamesjacoby, thanks for yoyr quick response and offer to help. I found the following bb_ entries in the wp_usermeta table:

umeta_id user_id meta_key          meta_value

14       1       bb_capabilities   a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;}

16       0       bb_capabilities   a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;}

24       2       bb_capabilities   a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;}

55       3       bb_capabilities   a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;}

75       4       bb_capabilities   a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;}

102      5       bb_capabilities   a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;}

112      1       bb_topics_replied 1

17       1       bb_user_settings  m0=o&m1=o

18       1       bb_user_settings_time 1243961396

The only odd entry may be the one for user id ‘0’ since there is no entry for that user id in the wp-users table.

[John James Jacoby]

ITguy… How comfortable are you with phpMyAdmin? The NEXT thing to try, will be to look in your wp_usermeta table, and see if there are any “bb_” entries in there. Could be some corrupt capabilities in there that are causing headaches?

I’ll be around for a few more hours so if you’ve got time to go back and forth I’ll keep checking back periodically.

[ITguy]

@johnjamesjacoby, I have the same setup and problem as hempsworth. I have repeated the install process now 10 times, same error. I deleted the forum folder (bbpress) deleted the database tables and deleted the cookies. I even tried a different user name instead of ‘admin’, same error. And just for fun I also used a different browser, same error

[John James Jacoby]

Here is what worked for me, on my WPMU sub-domain setup. (Sam, when you go through this, I understand that bbPress stores the salts in the DB and that they aren’t needed here, but for some reason I just feel better inside knowing I put them there the same as they are in wp-config.php )

2:05pm eastern time – UPDATE: I have confirmed these settings work on both WPMU subdomain and subdirectory installs. All logins/logouts, cookie clears, posting, and admin panel access works 100%.

WordPress MU is installed on the domain root, bbPress is installed in a SUB-DIRECTORY called “support”

Terms

SUB-DIRECTORY = Name of directory that bbPress is installed in

HASH-FROM-FIREFOX = Cookie hash taken from pre-integrated login cookie

GENERATED = String generated by WordPress key/salt generator

bb-config.php

// DEEP INTEGRATION AT THE VERY TOP

// (Sam, I can see you shaking your head right now)

if ( !defined('ABSPATH') & !defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST') & !defined('BB_IS_ADMIN')) {

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);

include_once( '/absolute/path/to/domain.com/wp-blog-header.php' );

//unset($wp_object_cache);

header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");

header("Status: 200 All rosy") ;

}



// Typical database stuff - blah blah blah



define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

define('COOKIEHASH', 'HASH-FROM-FIREFOX' );



define('BB_AUTH_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('BB_NONCE_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('BB_AUTH_SALT', 'GENERATED');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'GENERATED');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'GENERATED');



$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;



// WordPress database integration speedup

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wordpress_mu_primary_blog_id = 1;

$bb->user_bbdb_name = '';

$bb->user_bbdb_user = '';

$bb->user_bbdb_password = '';

$bb->user_bbdb_host = '';

$bb->user_bbdb_charset = '';

$bb->user_bbdb_collate = '';

$bb->custom_user_table = '';

$bb->custom_user_meta_table = '';



// WordPress cookie integration speedup

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://domain.com'; // no trailing slash

$bb->wp_home = 'http://domain.com'; // no trailing slash

$bb->cookiedomain = '';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_HASH-FROM-FIREFOX';

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_HASH-FROM-FIREFOX';

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_HASH-FROM-FIREFOX';

$bb->admin_cookie_path = '/SUB-DIRECTORY/bb-admin';

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/SUB-DIRECTORY/bb-plugins';

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/SUB-DIRECTORY/my-plugins';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '';

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/wp-admin';

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/wp-content/plugins';

define('WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION', 1);

wp-config.php

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

define('COOKIEHASH', 'HASH-FROM-FIREFOX');



define('AUTH_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('NONCE_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('AUTH_SALT', 'GENERATED');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'GENERATED');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'GENERATED');

[John James Jacoby]

@hempsworth, I ran into this error myself, but eventually, it seemed to go away after uninstalling bbPress (delete files AND database tables starting with bb_), deleting cookies, and starting over.

See my post in the other WPMU integration topic and see if any of those settings help you?

[johnhiler]

There’s no way to do this for now, other than deleting directly from the db using phpMyAdmin.

There was a script posted here, but it appears to be only for v 1.0+, and it doesn’t look like it’s wrapped up in a plugin:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/permanently-deleting-topocs-and-posts

[johnhiler]

Try this plugin?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/moderator-new-post-notification/

There are some tweaks to the code mentioned in the comments of that link… definitely check those out if you hit any issues.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Sam’s first point, about logged in users … With wp-super-cache, if you’re logged in, you don’t get cached pages. So on a forum, most folk are logged in, thus defeating the purpose.

Single topics pages can be cached untill a new response comes in.

That would be new and different, and IIRC not a part of bog-standard WP-Super-Cache, so that’s a pretty hefty write.

[_ck_]

Chinese:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/localization-traditional-chinese-language-file

http://lonelyer.googlepages.com/bbpress_trandational_chinese_languag.zip

http://dupola.googlecode.com/files/bbPress_0.9.0.2_zh_CN.zip

mirrors:

Chinese (CN)

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/bb-includes/languages/zh_CN.mo

Chinese (HK)

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/bb-includes/languages/zh_HK.mo

[Sam Bauers]

Perhaps talk to the WordPress Chinese translation group… http://www.wpcng.com/

Raw POT files for each version are here… http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/pot/tags/

[the_Wish]

Assuming that this is the latest trunk at

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/

I actually tried both approaches (only changed that one file, not the entire installation though).

[kbscoatings]

We have a small support forum. I love bbpress.

What I need is a plugin that would notify me (via email) every time we receive a new post. We do not get that many new posts, so this would be ideal for us.

Does anyone have any ideas for me?

Thanks.

[the_Wish]

@the_Wish

The “fix” won’t fix any text which is already malformed. Once you edit the text to repair it shouldn’t happen again.

Sorry to say but even new syntax with attributes like this

<a href="http://bbpress.org">This is a link</a>

is still converted to

<a href="//bbpress.org&quot;">This is a link</a>

Same goes for Singlequotes.

[Sam Bauers]

This will probably work:

rewrite ^/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 last;

rewrite ^/forum/([^/]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forum/?$ / permanent;

rewrite ^/topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 last;

rewrite ^/topic/([^/]+)/?$ /bbpress/topic.php?id=$1 last;

rewrite ^/topic/?$ / permanent;

rewrite ^/tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 last;

rewrite ^/tags/([^/]+)/?$ /tags.php?tag=$1 last;

rewrite ^/tags/?$ /tags.php last;

rewrite ^/profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 last;

rewrite ^/profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 last;

rewrite ^/profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 last;

rewrite ^/profile/([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1 last;

rewrite ^/profile/?$ /profile.php last;

rewrite ^/view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /view.php?view=$1&page=$2 last;

rewrite ^/view/([^/]+)/?$ /view.php?view=$1 last;

rewrite ^/rss/?$ /rss.php last;

rewrite ^/rss/topics/?$ /rss.php?topics=1 last;

rewrite ^/rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?forum=$1 last;

rewrite ^/rss/forum/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /rss.php?forum=$1&topics=1 last;

rewrite ^/rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?topic=$1 last;

rewrite ^/rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?tag=$1 last;

rewrite ^/rss/tags/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /rss.php?tag=$1&topics=1 last;

rewrite ^/rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?profile=$1 last;

rewrite ^/rss/view/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?view=$1 last;



if ( !-e $request_filename ) {

rewrite ^ /index.php last;

}

[Sam Bauers]

@dthom

The version is in a meta tag in the header as well as stated in the footer of the admin area.

bbPress doesn’t have granular per-forum permissions out-of-the-box. There are plugins that cover that though.

You might need to use the smtp mailer plugin to get emails working. Using that you can send email via an SMTP server instead of the default method which tries to send through PHP’s mail() function.

@the_Wish

The “fix” won’t fix any text which is already malformed. Once you edit the text to repair it shouldn’t happen again.

@Michael3185

0.9 Templates should still work with 1.0 – you will want to examine some of the new template functions that are in the default theme though.