[Fawked]

By the way this only happens to comment of posts that were sync’ed with bbPress. Comments that were not sync’ed (older posts) are working as normal.

[Fawked]

Now I have a new problem. When I make a comment on a post in WordPress it will change all my other previous comments to the same user and comment as demonstrated here:

http://www.fawked.net/2007/12/29/wannabe-rappers/

Everything in bbpress is working fine for now, it shows the correct comments.

[bobbyh]

A few days ago, out of the blue, users of my bbpress forum reported that submitting a new topic/post resulted in an error. Previously, my bbpress forum was working perfectly. However, over the last few days, I have verified that if you submit a new post or leave a comment, the browser takes you to bb-post.php, where the page hangs. You can verify this on my forum using user “testuser” and password “test123”.

There are a few weird things about this:

• I hadn’t touched the server for some time prior to this sudden problem, so it’s weird that the problem started, since I hadn’t changed anything
• I’ve been running two bbpress forums authenticated against the same WP user table. The problem is only with the first bbpress installation, while the second bbpress installation continues to work with no problems.
• When you post, the browser returns a 500 internal server error, and doesn’t display a “die” message, e.g. “You need to actually submit some content!”
• Although the browser returns a 500 internal server error, the posted content does go through.

I’ve hand-inspected http://boards.weddingbee.com/bb-post.php, and it has exactly the same PHP code as http://classifieds.weddingbee.com/bb-post.php. I’ve tried everything I can think of… I disabled plugins and Akismet, and the problem didn’t go away. (I’ve turned them back on.)

I’m using bbPress 0.83, with bb_db_version 788. I haven’t upgraded to bbPress 0.9.0.2 yet because I’ve integrated my WordPress 2.33 install with two bbPress installs and a Mediawiki install, and it will be a ton of work to reintegrate. However, that is the next step…

Does anybody have any ideas?

[antoniop]

“Step 3 – Site settings

« completed

Installation failed!

! The database failed to install. You may need to replace bbPress with a fresh copy and start again. “

Heres what I got from them.

“Please ask the creator of this script for further assistance as Doteasy does not provide web design or development services.

Here is the site error log for today.

[Mon May 05 08:19:23 2008] [error] [client 65.61.193.36] php-script: line 4: 22269 Segmentation fault /usr/bin/php-cgi, referer: http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3

[Mon May 05 08:19:23 2008] [error] [client 65.61.193.36] Premature end of script headers: php-script, referer: http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=3″

[ajvngou_]

I just use another theme and moddified, couse my code skills are not good. I moddified www theme too and i triyed create 1 nice theme for site and forum. I hope its ok now. I must change few things at code (size, avatars etc) but i hope its nice. its CZECH lang btw…

http://www.insurgency.cz/bbpress

[Bloggsbe]

Hi!

I made a small plugin that lets users show of their latest Tweet on their profile page. The user turns the option on or off as they please.

It’s nothing fancy, but it works.

You can download it here

It has been tested with bbPress 0.9.0.2 and 1.0-dev, but should work on earlier versions.

Regards,

Rune

[smu]

Hi Thomas,

Sorry for the inconvenience. Web hosting problems.

Here’s another download URL for the Danish language file for bbPress 0.8.2.1: http://munksgaard.net/?dl_id=1

Sure, I will have a go on translating bbPress 0.9.0.2 whenever I get the time…

[mlinksva]

bbPress has many translations, but AFAICT only one may be active at a time, set through $BBLANG

Am I wrong about this?

Assuming I’m not wrong…

It would be nice to enable users to select a language (or have it set for them through content negotiation).

Perhaps this could be done via a plugin a la http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/user-timezones/

[_ck_]

I put a ticket into trac about this a few months ago.

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/779

Changing the way it functions is not too difficult but it does have to be done via the core so unfortunately I can’t address it via a plugin. At least I dont think I can, not easily.

Oh and forget a captcha ever being built into bbPress/WordPress. It will have to be done via plugin with a hook. Because the moment thousands of people have the same standardized captcha, that’s the moment it will be analysed to be broken by bots. As a plugin the method can be changed on a whim and vary from site to site easily. Besides, I’d rather have people do simple math than an awkward captcha.

[irr1449]

It would actually be best if upon entering the registration info and some sort of captcha, the user was automatically logged in and returned to the point where they hit the “Register” button.

People are lazy. They don’t want to sign up, wait for the email, copy and paste the password (because good luck remembering “D7e98DF”), sign in, and then return to the spot that made them register in the first place.

I know this would probably cause some technical issues and would not be the most secure, but I think it would greatly increase user attach rate.

[_ck_]

Add some numbers? Oh you mean to show position #

Well the problem is I tinker with it from time to time.

If I find a new site that’s not in the top 100 I’ll usually just queue it until next time but if it’s a biggie I will rebuild the list right away.

Plus the number of posts is subjective and no indication of quality. I don’t really want to make that part a contest or people will start faking results and I’ll have to delete their listing entirely.

[A1ex]

Just add new page with slug, as in the folder your bbPress installation.

For example, “forums”.

[tedhogan]

Hi,

I just installed bbPress and have it sharing settings with my pre-existing WordPress installation. Everything is great, but I can’t figure out how to add a link form my WordPress to the forums. Is there some easy way that I am overlooking? How about a sidebar widget for WordPress that displays something?

I’ve been looking around this site, but I am confused about the plugins because I am never sure if they are for bbPress only or WordPress and there is nothing on the WordPress extension site.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ted

[howtogeek]

Sweet, looks like I’ve moved up the list a bit, #19 now!

You should add some numbers to the list.

[chilledfresh]

I’ve been running into cookies issues while trying to integrate bbPress into my existing WPMU site. My WPMU and bbPress installs are located in separate directories on my server (/blogs and /youngadults/forums).

bbPress is currently setup so that when users log into the forums, they are automatically logged into WPMU as well. However, for some reason this is not working the other way around – if I log into WPMU first, I am not logged into bbPress.

Does anyone know of a way to log into bbPress when going through the WPMU login?

I am using the MD5 Insecurity and Mouldy Old Cookies plugins, along with this snippet of code in the bb-config.php file:

$bb->usercookie = ‘wordpressuser’;

$bb->passcookie = ‘wordpresspass’;

[Fawked]

Thanks chrishajer it worked!

[jeffwong]

Hi!

Please try these plug in they solved my problem

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mouldy-old-cookies-for-bbpress/

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/md5-insecurity-for-bbpress/

Relate topic

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=8093

[chrishajer]

In the database, the value is stored in the bb_topicmeta table. A record that has a meta_key of uri holds the value, I think. That is record #3 in my fresh installation. It might be different in yours. Just find the key of uri and the value is the one you want, I think.

[Fawked]

I installed the latest bbPress. Everything went well. Then I decided to be an idiot and changed the bbPress url in the options page to my main site because when I clicked on my site name I wanted it to redirect back to my main site (the site name beside the bbPress logo).

I tried to re-install bbPress but it wont go past after installing bb-config.php

My main site is : http://www.fawked.net

My forum is : http://www.fawked.net/forum

Please tell me what file (or perhaps what line in my database)? to edit. I need to change my bbPress url back to http://www.fawked.net/forum

Thanks in advance

[chrishajer]

Which hosting account do you have from Doteasy? The free one does not have PHP and MySQL, I don’t think. Their Ultra and above accounts do. It appears you have a Linux hosting account with them, which is good.

bbPress has fairly minimal requirements from a host:

* PHP 4.3 or greater

* MySQL 4.0 or greater

I can’t imagine a Linux hosting account that doesn’t meet those requirements. So what exactly does Doteasy mean by “incompatible”? I think you need to talk to them more.

Also, what happens if you just go and finish the installation? Does it work, or error out?

One last thing: do you have access to webserver logs to see what that Internal Server Error is? That might be key.

[chrishajer]

Are you talking about bbPress or megabb? For bbPress, the keymaster (admin) password is randomly generated and displayed in the last step of the installation. It is also emailed to the email address you entered when configuring the installation.

In any case, if you have direct access to your database, you can insert a password hash for a known password value, then log in using that password for the admin account. I think that’s your best bet if you don’t know the admin password.

For bbPress anyway. I had not heard of megabb until today.

[antoniop]

I have had bbpress working on my doteasy account, and I decided to reinstall it – probably shouldn’t have When I contacted them, they informed me that they would try running the script and installing it…and I got this message back

“Hello Antonio,

This script appears to be incompatible with our hosting servers. Please try using a different script.”

“The database failed to install. You may need to replace bbPress with a fresh copy and start again.”

Now here is what happens when I try to install the script.

Your site settings have been saved and we are now ready to complete the installation. So what are you waiting for?

Then when I proceed to the final step I get this error.

“Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, advancedsupport@doteasy.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.”

At this point, if I refresh the page it goes back to the installer and I get this message ” bbPress Installation

Welcome to the bbPress installer

Step 1 – Database configuration

« completed

Step 2 – WordPress integration (optional)

« skipped

Step 3 – Site settings

Installation complete!

Show installation messages: “

If I then go back to atriskstoriesofhope.com/bbpress it wants to go back through the installation. What should I do?

[stitchadoodle]

**update**: just found https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

after looking for days, don’t know why it took so long to find. this did the trick!

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Also having a problem with pretty permalinks. i am on bluehost with the following:

wordpress 2.5.1 installed at example.com/blog

bbpress 0.9.0.2 installed at example.com/bb

i do have my wp akismet key applied in bbpress, but other than that no wp integration. bbpress works fine until i activate pretty permalinks. at that time, i can see all of my topics & stuff, but i just get 404 when i try to get to them.

here’s an interesting thing i discovered: both installed to my site via SimpleScripts. WP works fine, but bb appears to have no .htaccess file at all. i do see one in attached to a theme, but that’s it, and apparently not useful there.

since this seems to be the issue, sort of narrowed down, i created an .htaccess file using the code shown by jethro, but i know there’s something missing. it didn’t break my site, but i couldn’t even get to admin area to see if i could make the permalinks work.

i’m not a programmer, but if anyone can tell me what code i need to have in the .htaccess file, i can make the file and upload it.

thanks!

[adamn]

Before logging in:

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After logging in:

1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

Weird. Any guesses on this?

Thanks

[edwinfoo]

I’m totally with you on this but maybe for different reasons.

People are impatient and on the internet, they want it NOW. I’ve got hundreds of never logged on sign ups plus I paid good money on AdWords to acquire them.

With emailed passwords, there’s 2 weak points. Your mail server, and the new members mail server. If the email doesn’t arrive within their expectations of time, they register a new username. If either mail server experiences an outage, there are 2 registrations on the memberlist that ‘Never’ logged on and aren’t likely because “that site sucks”.

A registration form, customizable fields user chooses their own password and a captcha in the form. Now that makes sense to me.