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bbPress turns 2 years old today!!!

It’s been a big year with new features being added at a rapid pace thanks to hard work by Sam and Mike. It’s an easy guess that we should see a stable 1.0 beta by the end of 2008.

But don’t let the modest sounding “1.0” fool you, it’s practically a “2.0” inside with all the changes since 0.9 including BackPress integration (merges core functions from WordPress) and an XML-RPC api like WordPress as well.

While Matt Mullenweg (Automattic/WordPress founder) created bbPress during Christmas 2004 to power WordPress.org, version 0.7.2 (nicknamed “bix”) was only officially released for public consumption on Saturday October 14th 2006 making it two years old today.

Regardless of being summarily deleted from Wikipedia this year, bbPress has never been more popular. I’ve been tracking bbPress growth via the Top 100 and Top 1000 lists for over a year now and this month shows the list surging to nearly 5000 forums, with bbPress being used in over 80 countries and in dozens of languages.

Roughly 10 sites a day have installed bbPress over the past two years and over 70% them continue to use it. The largest bbPress forum is about to break a million posts by the end of the year and just to be on the Top 100, a forum now needs at least 7000 posts.

bbPress hosted forums via TalkPress (ala WordPress.com) are on the horizon, and with new forum conversion software being developed and more plugins and themes available than ever before, bbPress will definitely make it’s mark in 2009 and should have a very exciting third year!

[Bharat Karavadra]

Radium,

Are you suggesting we go back to alpha 1?

[djvibe]

I am having the same problems a Nekita. As soon as I ad the line

// require_once(‘pathto/wp-blog-header.php’);

to my bbconfig file

I cannot access my admin anymore… It takes away the ability to reply to posts too..

when I switch it back.. fine again. Its the same problem I was having before upgrading to BBpress 1 alpha..

Too bad… I had a perfectly integrated Theme BBPress/Wpress before I upraded WP to 2.6.1.. i Will look before I leap next time.. oooops.

[brad_langdon]

Yea that was me disabling some plugins.

Thanks but I don’t know anyone that knows how to fix this type of thing.

I tried refreshing another page over and over and you are right it did the same thing only with more gibberish errors over top of the default bbpress error page.

[chrishajer]

Interestingly, I just checked the forum again, and it was inaccessible. So I tried the main website, and it came up. Then I tried the forum again, and it came up (so, it appears that the forum was down about 10 minutes this time.)

But I got this error on the forum page for:

http://harrismarine.co.nz/bbpress/topic.php?id=63

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: avatarupload_display() in /mnt/local/home/harrismarine/harrismarine.co.nz/bbpress/bb-templates/kakumei/post.php on line 7

There were supposed to be 6 posts to that thread I think, but only the first one comes up, with this error, then there are no more replies.

Then, I refreshed the same page, and I got this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: show_view_count() in /mnt/local/home/harrismarine/harrismarine.co.nz/bbpress/bb-templates/kakumei/topic.php on line 9

That error kept coming up over and over when I refreshed the page.

It seems to me that right now you’re disabling plugins, but the call to the plugin function is still in the template, which is causing these errors. That points to a totally different problem, not the one that was causing the 503 before. This is something new and only because I think you disabled some plugins.

[chrishajer]

You might need more help than can be offered via a forum.

The missing topgrey.gif file is not your problem: that’s just a 404 file not found error. That won’t bring down your forum. The missing.html file being missing is probably because the server is configured to display a custom 404 page, but it can’t find that file either. But two 404 errors will not bring down your server.

Upgrading to alpha will not fix your problem. You need to find the specific problem with your installation.

Also, just loading page one of that topic 9, TWICE, caused the blank screen. So I doubt it even has anything to do with that thread having two pages. Just try loading any page twice and see if you experience the same thing I did (503 error, Service Not Available.)

To me, it sounds like something in the bbpress forum is overloading your server. Could be one of the plugins causing an excessive amount of database queries, could be something exhausting PHP RAM. You need someone close to the server to be able to troubleshoot this. If it’s a shared server, you might have a hard time finding the information you need.

[brad_langdon]

After checking my logs I basically have this over and over again…

File does not exist: /mnt/local/home/harrismarine/harrismarine.co.nz/Images/topgrey.gif, referer: http://harrismarine.co.nz/bbpress/topic.php?id=9&page=2

File does not exist: /mnt/local/home/harrismarine/harrismarine.co.nz/missing.html, referer: http://harrismarine.co.nz/bbpress/topic.php?id=9&page=2

Every time that image is missing (that’s the first error), there is a missing file after that called missing.html.

These are the only errors that look like they link to the url that is causing the issue but I am no expert.

I have fixed the image problem anyway but it didnt seem to fix anything.

[epiphone]

Disregard this thread, as I have chose to downgrade to WP 2.5.1 and Install bbPress 0.9.2 and I have managed intergrate my theme and the database with no problems. Any errors occuring before hand have been fixed.

Sorry 1.0 your just not ready for me yet.

[Radium]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/login-issue-with-bbpress-alpha-2-and-wordpress-262-integration

[epiphone]

Slightly off topic, but im not sure if having a space in your keys is a good idea. Might want to remove the space in them. If you do make sure your wp-config and bb-config match after the changes

[epiphone]

I have also had this error.

However when I installed bbPress, the errors we’re occuring because my Site Forum name was James’ Forum the ‘ seems to throw the installer off and cause a error.

However it doesn’t seem to affect the installer completing the installation

[Edward]

Same issue here…

[Bharat Karavadra]

Nice customisation to the theme.

I see you don’t seem to be having my issue at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/10-alpha-2-parse-url-error

did you get this issue at at all?

[Bharat Karavadra]

Thanks for your help anyway Epiphone, it’s much appreciated.

Let’s see what the bbPress team come back with.

Thank you again

[Bharat Karavadra]

Yes…

I’ve mapped the roles.

I’ve set the wordpress and blog addresses which are the same.

I’ve put in “auth” cookie salt.

I have NOT put in “secure auth” as my WordPress admin options page did not have one

I have put in “logged in” cookie salt.

I’ve copied the foolowing to my wp-config.pgp file

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ”);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ”);

and added the “Manual bbPress config file settings” to the bb-config.php file, however in this section it says “Afterwards, the settings in this form will reflect the hard coded values, but you will not be able to edit them here.”

What is hard coded where? I didn’t see any difference to this page after adding these speedup settings to the bb-config.php file.

[epiphone]

Do you know if your web-host supports multi views? Might be a idea to ask them. Although I am new to bbPress myself there might be something else causing problems. But from reading various topics permalink problems seems to be connected to the .htaccess.

I can’t really offer anymore help but im sure a moderator or other member will post help. When they see you topic.

[epiphone]

Yeah the bb-config has to have BB_ defined, no need to change.

Have you checked in your bbPress admin panel:

Settings > WordPress Intergration

That all the stuff it wants if filled in with correct information

[Bharat Karavadra]

I’ve chedked them about 5 times but with the hope that your suggestion and good energy might find an issue, I just checked them again but they are the same apart from the fact the the bbPress ones have BB_ before the variable names.

WORDPRESS:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘phrase 1’); //

Change this to a unique phrase.

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘phrase 2’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘phrase 3’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

BBPRESS:

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘phrase 1’);

// Change this to a unique phrase.

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘phrase 2’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘phrase 3’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

[epiphone]

I think on the admin panel (bbPress) there’s a link in the description of the permalinks settings part, that when you click it will display the .htaccess code thats meant to be in your .htaccess.

Now I don’t quite know why your having problems but I have also come across problems with something called multi views.

Sometimes permalinks won’t work because of multiviews not being ables. Try adding this to the very top of your .htaccess:

Options +MultiViews

[Bharat Karavadra]

Hi,

Just one more topic separated from the release topic to make life easier.

Hi,

Installed a zip package of alpha 2 and it went OK and as I couldn’t quite get the logins to work for WP and bbP and tried installing it again.

I saw a few messages about install packages not being complete so I downloaded this second one.

Now when I try to install it, on the final screen it give the following PHP error – but the install seems OK.

Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: Operation not permitted in /home/1295/htdocs/www.example.com/public_html/forums/bb-admin/class-install.php on line 1021

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/1295/htdocs/www.example.com/public_html/forums/bb-admin/class-install.php:1021) in /home/1295/htdocs/www.example.com/public_html/forums/bb-includes/functions.php on line 2902

I tried a few times but got the same thing, then I comared my first and second packagas and saw that bbpress/bb-admin/class-install.php is very slightl different from line 264

The file in the first package has 2 if statements and the second has 1 if statement as follows:

class-install.php from package 1:

if (!defined(‘BB_INC’)) {

// Define BB_INC

// Tell us to load includes because bb-settings.

php was not loaded

// bb-settings.php is generally not loaded on

steps -1, 0 and 1 but

// there are exceptions, so this is safer than

just reading the step

$this->load_includes = true;

define(‘BB_INC’, ‘bb-includes/’);

}

if (!defined(‘BACKPRESS_PATH’)) {

define(‘BACKPRESS_PATH’, BB_PATH . BB_INC . ‘

backpress/’);

}

class-install.php from package 2:

if (!defined(‘BACKPRESS_PATH’)) {

// Define BACKPRESS_PATH

// Tell us to load includes because bb-settings.

php was not loaded

// bb-settings.php is generally not loaded on

steps -1, 0 and 1 but

// there are exceptions, so this is safer than

just reading the step

$this->load_includes = true;

define(‘BACKPRESS_PATH’, BB_PATH . BB_INC . ‘

backpress/’);

}

But the weird thing is that when I put back the first class-install.php I still get the error. I’m not too fussed as the install goes OK but it could be quite off putting if users get this PHP error.

[epiphone]

Sounds like a cookie problem.

Have you made sure that your wp-config and bb-config have both defined the special keys like:

AUTH_KEY

SECURE_AUTH_KEY etc

And of course the secret cookie key?

[Bharat Karavadra]

I put this on the release topic but thought it would be easier for all to give it a new topic:

With 1.0 alpha 2 I have found that the logins work independently for WordPress and bbPress when they have been integrated.

So I can login into WordPress but also have to login to bbPress – the login isn’t remembered, and the same the other way aorund. When I login into bbPress, I have to then login into WordPress.

But hey, at least the logins are being shared and this seems good enough for me to make the bbPress forums live.

However there seems to be some partial login working between WordPress and bbPress as you will see as follows with respect to some analysis I did.

I hope this is of some use to the team.

LOGIN AS ADMIN:

LOGIN ON WORDPRESS:

Login OK and admin features OK on WordPress

Not logged into bbPress (e.g. register link and login boxes appear)

When trying to access /bbpress/bb-admin – redirected back to /bbpress

Log out of WordPress and..

LOGIN ON BBPRESS:

Login OK and admin features OK on bbPress

Not Logged into WordPress properly (e.g. comments section says login/register and no comments text area, register/login links appear in meta section)

However, when trying to access /wordpress/wp-admin – appears as logged in as admin OK with all admin features in admin area only.

LOGIN AS USER:

LOGIN ON WORDPRESS:

SAME AS FOR ADMIN:Login OK and admin features OK on WordPress

SAME AS FOR ADMIN:Not logged into bbPress (e.g. register link and login boxes appear)

When trying to access /bbpress/bb-admin – redirected back to /bbpress

Log out of WordPress and..

LOGIN ON BBPRESS:

Login OK and profile features OK on bbPress

Not logged into WordPress

However, trying to access /wordpress/wp-admin – appears as logged in (obviously with no admin features).

[Bharat Karavadra]

Hi,

related indirectly to the post: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/10-alpha-2-parse-url-error

I thought it may be something to do with the permalinks settings so I tried to revert back to “None..” in ADMIN > SETTINGS > GENERAL, but I cannot seem to change back from “Name based” to “None”; it just goes back ot “Name based” when you click “Save changes”, but I can set it to “Numeric”

I thought you might be doing something clever like checking for ther .htaccess file that needs to be uploaded to get the numeric and name based links to work, so I deleted the .htaccess file but still no luck.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Bharat Karavadra]

Hi,

On 1.0 alpha 2, I just noticed that when your are NOT logged in and you click on “ADD NEW” wherever it appears (front page, tag, etc) I get the following PHP error:

Warning: parse_url(/forums/bb-login.php?re=http://www.example.com/forums/?new=1) [function.parse-url]: Unable to parse URL in /home/www.example.com/public_html/forums/bb-includes/backpress/functions.wp-cron.php on line 186

I never noticed this after first installing as I never felt the need to click on it when not logged in.

I see you don’t have it on your support forums, so I’m not sure what’s happening here.

I tried the sambauers plugin from http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/redirect-after-login-error#post-19571

but when trying to activate it I get “Plugin could not be activated; it produced a Fatal Error.”

I guess this is because it was a fix for a 0.9 release.

Please help!

[epiphone]

Well I’ve finally done it, Intergrated my WP blog theme with bbPress. It’s not as hard as you think once you look around. Anyway check out my intergration here:

http://www.james-blogs.com (blog)

http://www.james-blogs.com/forum (forum)

(There are still 1 or two minor CSS errors but the intergration of WordPress functions has been done successfully.

It’s taken me a few days to figure it all out, but I’ve finally done it. Although it does sound like im bragging alot. I also want to share a website that could also help you do theme intergration:

http://bbpressraw.com/bbpress_blank_themes/

This site provides blank themes that are literally the bare minimum of CSS, but even better they provide blank themes in type so for example my blog layout is a 2 Column design. I would also find this layout on bbpressraw.com and then begin editing it.

Being able to get a pre-coded layout with the bare minimum needed within it, certainly helped me alot. And I was able to understand and modify to intergrate my blog theme into it.

I hope this website can help you to in intergrating your bbPress installation