[chrishajer]

You can make that change in your 1&1 control panel. Administration > Domains > click the domain name, click the Destination [Edit] button, then select the /forums/ directory from the “Existing directory” select box. That directs all traffic destined for mysite.com to whatever website you have installed in the forums directory (which is bbPress in this case.)

That works fine if you want your bbPress installation to be the whole website mysite.com and everything is in the ‘forums’ directory. It’s the most direct way to do it, since you have the option to do it this way. It basically hides the fact that things are in a ‘forums’ directory, just like all the rest of the web server path is hidden. My full path is something like /kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs, and then each website has a subfolder there.

/kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs/chrishajer/

/kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs/forums/

/kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs/somesite/forums/

Your subfolder will be called “forums”, but people visiting your site will never know.

Coffee – black

[ironbound]

Chris: Although my forum is working right now. It is not doing what I want it to do. Let me explain what I want to accomplish and then my current setup. I have 1&1 shared hosting.

I would like mysite.com to be directly forwarded to the forum. Meaning if I type mysite.com it goes to the forum’s main page.

—

Right now (the only way I made everything work) mysite.com is just at the root folder and displays nothing (the 403 error because there is now index in the main root directory). The forum is at /forums and works. But i have to type mysite.com/forums.

The config file was setup for http://mysite.com/forums/

inside /forums/ you find the bb-admin and folders etc. Basicly I renamed bbpress as forums and installed it from there.

The problem is that is I forward the mysite.com domain to either the /forums/ directory or do an HTTP forward. It does not work. It messes everything up. I am clearly doing something wrong. I can’t understand shared hosting. ahhhhhhhhh. Please help me. Buy you a latte.

[scrumtralescent]

Hi, chrishajer.

This is what I see in Firefox: http://thelifelesstraveled.com/forumInFirefox.jpg

However, if I view the forums in Safari, it looks great (just like the default theme should look and how it looks in your screenshot http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/tlltf.png).

[_ck_]

I think you want bb_get_option()

ie. bb_get_option(‘name’)

etc.

[chrishajer]

The forum has style, it has the default kakumei theme applied. Here’s what I see with Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Windows XP.

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/tlltf.png

If you are expecting it to look like something else, maybe you need to select it in your admin panel. But there is a theme applied, the default one. That’s different than saying it has “no style”. It has the default style, not a broken path to your stylesheet or theme.

[_ck_]

The password method change will require WP 2.5 for integration.

(Unless someone makes a plugin)

[helpy]

Will 0.8.4 still work with WordPress 2.3.3 ???

[techhost]

Wait, what’s this:

Warning: version_compare() has been disabled for security reasons in d:hostingarock1rockline_forumbbpressbb-includesdb-base.php on line 479

Cannot select DB.

I don’t know what this is either .. .. I got this the first time i tried the install.php . .. .. .. Then I fixed the (uri)line, because I had forgotten the ‘.com’ in the address

$bb->uri = ‘http://www.rocklineproduction.com/rockline_forum/bbpress/’;

then first part of the error went away and all I had was the ‘Connot selectDB’ .. . .and now

the first part is back again .. … …

[chrishajer]

Wait, what’s this:

Warning: version_compare() has been disabled for security reasons in d:hostingarock1rockline_forumbbpressbb-includesdb-base.php on line 479

Cannot select DB.

You didn’t post the first part of that message which I received when trying to access your forum.

Do you know what version MySQL is installed? You could probably work around that. The fact that you still have a “Cannot select DB” error after the warning means there is probably still a problem with your four connection details.

[techhost]

here are my settings for the config.php Sorry for not posting it at first.

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘sameasUSER’);

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘sameasDB’);

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxxxxx’);

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”);

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

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

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://www.rocklineproduction.com/rockline_forum/bbpress/’;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Rockline Production Forum’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘myemail@hosttechs.net’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = true;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = 8;

// 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 BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ”; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// I didn’t change anything below that which is above .. . .. .

[_ck_]

Wow I can’t believe bbPress doesn’t do that.

I’ve whipped up a function to do it, should be in the plugin browser soon or try this:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name:  New User Notification Email

*/

add_action('bb_new_user', 'new_user_notification');



function new_user_notification($user_id=0) {

if (!$user_id) {$user_id=bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' );}

$user=bb_get_user($user_id);



$message  = sprintf(__('New user registration on %s:'), bb_get_option('name')) . "rnrn";

$message .= sprintf(__('Username: %s'), stripslashes($user->user_login)) . "rnrn";

$message .= sprintf(__('E-mail: %s'), stripslashes($user->user_email)) . "rnrn";



$message .= sprintf(__('Agent: %s'), substr(stripslashes($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]),0,80)) . "rnrn";

$message .= sprintf(__('IP: %s'), $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) . "rnrn";



$message .= sprintf(__('Profile: %s'), get_user_profile_link($user_id)) . "rnrn";



@bb_mail(bb_get_option('admin_email') , sprintf(__('[%s] New User Registration'), bb_get_option('name')), $message, '' );

}

?>

[chrishajer]

I use 1&1 without any trouble with many bbPress and WordPress installations. If you need help, just post. Every host is a little bit different, but I have 3+ years of experience with 1&1 on all types of servers.

Cheers.

[Sam Bauers]

That plugin is old and won’t work with 0.8.4 (and maybe not with 0.8.3.1)

Once 0.8.4 is released this should work as a plugin for both WordPress and bbPress:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Lax user names

Plugin URI:

Description: Makes all user name sanitisation non-strict

Author: Sam Bauers

Version: 0.0.1

Author URI: http://unlettered.org/

*/



function i18n_sanitize_user($username, $raw_username = false, $strict = false) {

if ($strict) {

return sanitize_user($raw_username);

} else {

return $username;

}

}



add_filter('sanitize_user', 'i18n_sanitize_user');

?>

[_ck_]

It unzips for me, what utility are you using?

web.archive tends to add stray characters to the header or afterwards and that may be confusing your program. I use WinRar.

I might make a local archive on my site for abandoned themes.

[_ck_]

This should fix it: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/usernames-i18n-fix/

I need to find out if this is fixed by default in 0.8.4

[_ck_]

This would be a good beginning project for a first bbPress plugin, I’d encourage you and just ask for help if you need it.

Basically you’d want to store within and display within the topic meta adding the user id number to a list so people can’t thank twice – or so you can list the names of those that thanked. Use “implode” and “explode” to make the list and count the names.

As a shortcut you could store the actual username and output the raw string with the commas to show all the names that thanked. Then by counting the commas (+1), or exploding into an array and counting the array, you’d get the number of people that thanked. You could give admin the option to show the list of names that thanked or just the count (or both).

The trickiest part is you have to give a button to thank with, which gives you either a form or an href. Then you have to look for the get/post data and process it. I recommend using a href via a GET instead of POST so bbPress doesn’t have to redirect to clear the post data (it’s nasty to reload twice).

I just realized you mentioned “posts” vs “topic” and the problem with that is that bbPress doesn’t have a per-post metadata table. This would make it a bit more complicated as you’d have to track which post number within a topic was thanked and store it in the topic’s meta anyway. But if somehow a post is moved to another topic, this becomes a problem as the meta would not move with it (rare but could happen with plugins like move-it).

[ironbound]

except it doesn’t unzip

[ironbound]

_ck_ = the best!

[ironbound]

Everything is working fine except the post and forum links. I can use the admin area perfectly. I can log in and out, and register new users fine.

However, I cannot access:

*View your profile

*Your first topic

*bbPress (under Hot Tags)

*Main forum under MAIN THEME (1st post)

* Topics with no replies

* Topics with no tags

Clicking any of the above brings me to a 404 error page

Please help me through this one. Thank you for your time and patience.

[Sam Bauers]

[Update: this release will now be version 0.9 instead of 0.8.4]

bbPress 0.9 will be released on the 10th of March, 2008 to coincide with the release of WordPress 2.5

A full blog post on the bbPress blog will outline all the changes in the near future.

In the meantime if anyone wants to give the latest 0.9 beta a test run, simply download a zip package of the current version of the “0.8 branch” at the bottom of this page.

If you find any problems then please login to the bbPress Trac site and create a new ticket to report it as a bug. Alternatively, you can see if either sambauers or mdawaffe is in the #bbPress IRC channel on irc.freenode.net and report the problem directly to them.

[ironbound]

Thank you for your help chrishajer. I did eventually figure it out… after 13 different installations. It was easy (bbpress) but shared hosting is difficult to deal with.

[ironbound]

The problem is that I have this stupid shared hosting BS with 1and1. Right now I have mysite.com which is actually mysite.com/forum. Then I have the files under mysite.com/forum/bbpress. It installs fine but then I get 500 errors on any of the forum links.

[harryworld]

zappoman,

Thanks for your sharing. I am exactly looking for the features. Could I help somehow to make this work? (Even I’m quite new to bbPress )

You may send me an email at harryworld(at)gmail(dot)com

[crossroads]

Does anybody know why when a forum is clicked from the main menu does it go to my wp index page. I suspect it has to do with bbpress files being in a folder not on the main root, but i can’t figure out what i need to change.

Same thing happens when I go to my profile page.

Thanks for any help.

[crossroads]

Does anybody know why when a forum is clicked from the main menu does it go to my wp index page. I suspect it has to do with bbpress files being in a folder not on the main root, but i can’t figure out what i need to change.

Same thing happens when I go to my profile page.

Thanks for any help.