[citizenkeith]

From 1998-2003, I ran a forum using the Network54 website. These forums were horrendous. There wasn’t any user database… people just wrote their posts then filled in their name and an optional email address. (It’s amazing I didn’t get any spam during that five year period.)

My goal is to get all these posts into bbPress.

I was unable to spider the forum. Network54’s server kicked in and blocked all attempts using Spiderzilla.

Here’s the forum:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/3752/

Instead this is what I’ve done: There are 53 pages of posts. Some of them are threaded, some are not. On each page, there’s a “View All Messages” link that will show you all of that’s page’s posts and threads on one single HTML page. Each thread is separated with an HR tag.

I downloaded each of these 53 “View All” pages. I just spent 20 minutes cleaning up the code from Page 1, and I’m left with a fairly lean page. Here’s what I got for page 1:

http://www.judyhenskefan.com/viewall-page-1.htm

I will continue doing this for all 53 pages. Then I would like to separate out all the topics and posts, and put it into an “Archive” forum in my bbPress install. I’m trying to determine the best way of doing this…

For one, a lot of the users are not registered on the current forum. Some are, but used slightly different names. Some people never entered their optional email address at the Network54 forum, so I don’t have a way to put everybody into a user account. I could match up a bunch of them, but not all of them.

How would you proceed, if you were me?

[dss]

Problem solved.

Turns out that I overlooked the part of the integration documentation which advises users to add the path to wp-blog-header.php

In the upgrade, a new config.php is created, and naturally one needs to add this path again to the new document for them to work.

Once you do it… it works! Yaaay.

[haagendazs1]

Hi chrishajer,

example.com has stuff like htaccess, index.php, php.ini, robots.txt

example.com/folder/ is the WP install that’s integrated with the forum

and example.com/folder/bbpress/ is the aforementioned forum

[magicbratt]

I had the same idea but commented out the entire contents of the login-form.php.

Removing or renaming will cause and error so leave it in place. Just open it and comment out the contents from top to bottom. It’s the login form shown on the front page. This way when you are logged in, you will still see the your name and the admin link and logout option. This is working for me anyway.

[citizenkeith]

Just want to say THANK YOU!!

I gave up converting my phpBB forum months ago:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/a-phpbb-to-bbpress-database-converter/page/2

But by utilizing the info here (and buy editing the SQL file by hand), I was able to get my forum into the very latest bbPress… it’s even integrated with WP.

http://www.judyhenskefan.com/forums/

Now I get to work on a new design for the forum and blog (as well as add lots of plugins to the new forum).

Thanks again everybody!

[txmom]

Working now. As this was a new data base with no content yet, I dropped the database, made a new one, installed wordpress, then bbpress. All seems to be working correctly. I must have put wp_ in step 1 the first time instead of leaving it at bb_. No problems with logging in like I had when I tried the upgrade. Thanks.

[chrishajer]

Did you already follow these instructions for getting permalinks to work, in general? If permalinks at all will work, then slugs will work as well.

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

[chrishajer]

Why isn’t bbpress installed in a subdirectory of WordPress (that’s easiest for integration)?

And what does this mean exactly:

> WordPress 2.5 is installed in example.com/WordPress/

> with the actual public blog up one level at example.com/

Do you have two blogs, one or both of them WordPress?

[chrishajer]

What is in http://example.com/ ?

What is in http://example.com/folder/ ?

I know what’s in http://example.com/folder/bbpress/

[haagendazs1]

I’m not sure if people don’t know how to do it, or if it’s not possible, or if I’m just not explaining it clearly enough… So I’ll try again:

Right now, physically, the folders are arranged like so:

root.com/folder/bbpress

The address:

root.com/folder/bbpress

also works and goes to the forum just fine.

However, I want to keep the physical folders arranged that way, and make the address:

root.com/bbpress

WordPress itself has the exact same option under “Settings” by changing “Blog address (URL)” to whatever.

Any help would be appreciated!

[psheerin]

I’ve uploaded the bbPress files to example.com/forum/ and WordPress 2.5 is installed in example.com/WordPress/ with the actual public blog up one level at example.com/

When I go visit example.com/forum/ or even example.com/forum/admin/install.php all I get is a blank post from the WP site that reads “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.”

What do I need to change in order to make the installation run?

WordPress created this .htaccess file and placed it in webroot, and I’m guessing this is the problem:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# END WordPress

[raygene]

Any idea on why I can’t use “pretty” permalinks (read above posts)?

Gene

[citizenkeith]

This looks good. I’m looking forward to the next version.

Any chance of you upgrading the Private Forums plugin?

[raygene]

The only disadvantage is that I can’t access the Admin features from the front page, I have to add bb-admin/ at the end of the address.

[raygene]

“yes this will work only if you have bbpress running inside of wordpress. But I will release a next version which automatically do it”

I do have bbpress running inside of WP and still get the error…

Gene

[raygene]

Hi,

I added a bbPress forum to my WP 2.5 Blog and being that I didn’t want users to either login nor register from the forum section, I modified the template’s header.php file to comment out <?php login_form(); ?>.

If there’s another way of doing this, let me know.

Thanks,

Gene

[Ravi]

hi, i have a bbPress installation at http://ravidreams.net/forum/ . The main language of the forum is Tamil and when i get email notifications the characters in the subject line are unreadable..seems like some another language.. I am hosted by GoDaddy. Any solution?

Thanks

[so1o]

@_ck_ yes this will work only if you have bbpress running inside of wordpress. But I will release a next version which automatically do it.

[phreakymonkey]

My host has disabled sendmail (because they like to make things a pain in the ass for everyone, apparently), so I have to find workarounds for everything I have installed. This plugin for WP has saved my bacon for my main site, but I haven’t found a solution for bbPress and my php fu is weak.

[haagendazs1]

Hi everyone,

Currently my forum is located in something like:

example.com/dir/forum/

But I want to rewrite it to be like this:

example.com/forum/

Since WordPress can do that, I was hoping bbPress can too, but I’m not sure how. Is there some setting I can change?

Also secondary to that is that if there is no setting for such an option, can I just move the “forum” directory out of “dir” and into the root, and change the “bbPress address” to force it to physically be like “example.com/forum/” or would that screw things up?

Thanks a lot everyone

[haagendazs1]

Hi,

I installed a bbpress + wp thing and something screwed up a little with the bbpress part, but I think I can fix it if someone could please tell me how to change the “bbPress address (URL)” that comes in the General Settings directly. By that I mean is this value stored somewhere in a file or database that I can directly change, rather than through the General Settings menu?

Thanks

[precious-forever]

that’s what i did, but it doesn’t work. all users that registered with bbpress before the update, are shown as “anonymous”. and also, some of the other users are getting mixed up …

[bruinfelix]

I’am currently working on a Dutch translation file for bbPress, zo maybe today, otherwise today it will be come available

[raygene]

I also get the same error…

I hope the author will come up with a fix, this would be a handy plugin.

Cheers,

Gene

[JaneLitte]

Where can I download futurekind?