[hanjra]

Thanks for this.. yes that is right i was using that wordpress key… now tell me ,, will i have to change the key of my wordpress too or only i need to change the key of bbpress. Or i ll have to remove all the bbpress tables and then install again or just change the key only.

ps: if i want to integrate the bbpress with wordpress then what will i have to do.. to change the key of wordpress too??

[chrishajer]

If you used the WordPress secret key generator API to create the keys for WordPress and are using those keys for bbPress, it’s entirely possible the key works fine in WordPress but not bbPress.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/10-alpha-wp-integration-messed-logins#post-18286

[_ck_]

There is at least one person I found via google who has done the simple:press conversion but they didn’t say how. I suspect it was the phpbb2 process.

Any series of steps you do via phpmyadmin can be saved in sql code and made into a converter. Give me the sql commands and I’ll make you a script.

[lstelie]

@J0hnD03

I’m in the same situation, using SimplePress and willing to switch.

I’m not willing to do so because of SimplePress problems (SimplePress is far more advanced than most forums scripts, BBPress included and far better integrated with WP than most forums BBPress included) but because it’s a single man project and the day he will decide to have a life it’s likely the project will be dropped…

Currently I’m converting things by hand (and with PhpMyAdmin) because I didn’t found any converter (and that’s normal, Simple Press is not very well known and would deserve better diffusion).

I would be interested by your experience in integrating BBpress in WP design.

Luc

[hanjra]

code

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘*******’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘*****’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘******’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old bb-config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// Change BB_SECRET_KEY to a unique phrase. You won’t have to remember it later,

// so make it long and complicated. You can visit https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

// to get a phrase generated for you, or just make something up.

// If you are integrating logins with WordPress, you will need to match the value

// of the “SECRET_KEY” in the WordPress file wp-config.php

define(‘BB_SECRET_KEY’, ‘*************************************’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

// If you are running multiple bbPress installations in a single database,

// you will probably want to change this.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BB_LANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BB_LANG’, ”);

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BB_PATH’) )

define(‘BB_PATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BB_PATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

That is my bb-config.php

[keress]

I take it there is no quick fix to get out of this dilemna? I don’t understand why, but now we are also unable to log into our word press blog.

My plan is to uninstill bbpress, then attempt to install it to the wordpress database. I’m on the road now and won’t have an opportunity to do this till tomorrow. If anybody knows of a quick fix to get our wordpress blog working, it would be great.

[_ck_]

If you are not on 2.6 yet, stay with 2.5 and install bbPress 0.9

bbPress 1.0 is in ALPHA and not ready for active sites that use/need plugins. Many of my plugins have issues with 1.0 because of many internal changes.

bbPress integration is easy and takes just a few minutes if you have a typical server and standard setup.

There are a several large sites using bbPress (including WordPress.org) so it handles high traffic just fine.

I’ve never heard of anyone converting from Simple:Press, you’ll have to search for it. If you can get it into PHPBB2 format, several people have converted from that.

[j0hnd03]

Hi, I am already using the Simple:Press Forum but I am not happy with it. I am thinking to make a phpBB3 integration but it seems to hard to do, so I see this forum system and taking a look is simple but usefull, so, who questions…

1. May I think to use this system for a high trafic forum ?. I mean, can I control the users, has good permissions and things like that.

2. There is a way to import from my actual forum system ?

PD. I will update to 2.6.x today or tomorrow.

Thanks,

[chrishajer]

Sounds like you have a syntax error in the secret keys or cookie path that is creating trouble for bbPress creating the cookies. Line 188 of pluggable.php (in the 0.9.0.2 release, anyway) looks like this:

setcookie($bb->authcookie, $cookie, $expire, $bb->cookiepath, $bb->cookiedomain);

Can you post your bb-config.php with as little editing as possible? There’s probably something wrong in that file.

Alternatively, check bb-config.php with the php command:

[~pimpforum ] php -l bb-config.php

No syntax errors detected in bb-config.php

That’s an L, like php -L, but lowercase, in the command.

[_ck_]

I turn off Akismet and just use Human Test to prevent bots from registering: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

You just never know when a user will improperly get “bozo-ed” and you might miss their messages entirely. In fact i turn off the bozo feature too, it’s never quite worked right.

[chrishajer]

So, there will only be one forum that allows anonymous posting?

Sounds like _ck_ was looking for the same thing:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-anonymous-posting/#post-1451

[admindh]

Hello..

I am using bbpress for having a forum for my bar.

Like this i need anonymus guest beeing able to post…BUT ONLY IN SINGLE DEFINED forum(s) ..at the moment a have the anonymos posting plugin running..but still they can post everywhere…somebody got i idea to fix this situation with a setup of defined restrictions or with a update of the plugin?

[geekymom]

Thanks for both your responses. We decided to move the database to the same server. I’m now having issues with the WordPress cookies, but at least that’s a new problem!

[citizenkeith]

I’m a member of a few forums that send out announcements.

Some hosts will limit the number of emails you can send at once though. Dreamhost, for instance, has a limit of 100 per hour (one of the many reasons I’ll be leaving them soon).

It would be overkill for some sites, but it would be nice to have a plugin for PHPList that would share a WordPress and/or bbPress user database; one that would allow user control of mailing list preferences in the WordPress or bbPress profile.

[_ck_]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/page/2/#post-1707

[danvollans]

Based on the settings you chose, or whoever installed it on your server, there is an option to allow remote connections to the database. I’m assuming you’re using mysql for your database. The most probable cause is that either you’re running a firewall that is blocking port 3306 (default port) or you just simply don’t have remote access set up.

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/remotemysql.htm

That is a fairly straight-forward and decent guide to setting up mysql for remote access. If you have any questions you can ask me and I’ll do my best to help!

[chrishajer]

I see you’re running WordPress 2.6.1. What version bbPress did you install? I think I asked that before but I must have missed the answer. The alpha branch of bbPress is compatible with WordPress 2.6.* but the 0.9 branch is not.

[chrishajer]

You can do it that way, but if you are getting a database connection error, there is something wrong with your database connection details.

I use one server for the database and one for the web server, so I know it will work. Sounds like you just haven’t figured out the proper connection details.

Can you connect to the database box from a linux command line?

[geekymom]

I may be going about this the hard way, but I thought I’d see if anyone had an answer for me. I’m not a sysadmin, but I play one on tv, or at the very least, can find my way around a linux box pretty well. Here’s what I’m trying to do. I have WordPress Mu running on server a and I have bbpress installed on server b. I want to have bbpress use the user tables of the WordPress Mu db. Every time I’ve tried to do this, I’m getting a db connection error. I know I have the username and password correct. I put in the db host as http://www.servera.com. Is there something I’m missing completely? Should I just give up trying to do it this way?

By the way, I’ve tried this with .9 and no go there either. I really can’t go back to WPMU 2.5 because we have a key plugin that requires 2.6.

[djp]

my site has more posts than the lower half of the listing. Why’m I not in there?

http://www.mastercleanse.co.za/forum/

username: bbpress

Login: bbpress

just asking…

[_ck_]

I’ve found another incompatibility

in how “tags” are now “terms”.

Any plugin that accesses tags directly will fail.

Old plugins can be found by searching for “->tags”

(without the quotes)

So essentially there are two “dead” tables after upgrading from 0.9 to 1.0 “bb_topicmeta” and “bb_tags”. But I wouldn’t delete them until 1.0 is final/gold.

[matthijs]

I’ve integrated the 1.0 alpha release of BBpress together with WP2.61 successfully in 2 places now. Works great so far.

What I did: install wp in root the normal way. Then put bb files in subdirectory /forums/. Install bb. Follow instructions carefully. I also made my bb-config file writable, that prevented some errors as well.

[mcshockency]

Resolved!

Re-installed bbpress, works fine!

[Idiom]

I can not figure out where i went wrong.. I’m using the latest 1.0 alpha release at 2.6. Everything apperas to work as expected (users exist in both systems, etc). However, the auto login is not working. I believe i followed the instructions to the “T”. Heres the stored cookie for both systems.

WordPress cookie after login:

/r30ab08c19a56be384114b23c09751029b7cf0de2e632d894d28d72e65f7f9f4=paul%7C1219369085%7Cc34a82349db07b4910c7910f399a9524

wordpress_=brian%7C1219369051%7Cf203245956a5b6a1e75d245128f85ced

wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check

wordpress_logged_in_=brian%7C1219369051%7C3738545f5bdb765f9ba4f5696e435ff9

wordpress_logged_in_57ff593b3dd6a2c72983ec37fa6fbe1a=paul%7C1219369085%7C6abf020fe1dc18102166be4e3a709ab1

BBpress immediatly after logging into wordpress:

/rwordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check

wordpress_logged_in_=brian%7C1219369051%7C3738545f5bdb765f9ba4f5696e435ff9

wordpress_logged_in_57ff593b3dd6a2c72983ec37fa6fbe1a=paul%7C1219369085%7C6abf020fe1dc18102166be4e3a709ab1

BBpress (already logged into wordpress, now manually logging into BBPress:

/rwordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check

wordpress_logged_in_=brian%7C1219369051%7C3738545f5bdb765f9ba4f5696e435ff9

wordpress_logged_in_57ff593b3dd6a2c72983ec37fa6fbe1a=brian%7C1219369533%7C9bc6a13aa1062a28d82bf0c30680253d

any ideas?

Cheers!

Brian

[csseur3]

Hello,

the “Lax user names” plugin of Sam doesn’t work in bbPress 1.0 alpha 1