[chrishajer]

nolageek, I’m with you on the integration. Seems people are usually looking for three things from bbPress:

1. User integration with WordPress out of the box

(registration/login)

2. Theme integration with WordPress out of the box

(make the forum look like the blog)

3. Working slugs or permalinks out of the box

(why is it so easy with WordPress and so hard with bbPress?)

(Regarding MU, I have no idea. I’m talking mostly about WordPress.)

I would say those are the most common requests in these forums, ones that come up over and over.

Sorry for hijacking your thread.

[Sam Bauers]

Yes, use the older one (2.3) for bbPress versions earlier than 0.9

Functionally there is little difference and you can upgrade both bbPress and Support Forum together later on without loss of data.

Thanks for pointing in the right direction chrishajer.

[_ck_]

WPMU users really are kinda out there on their own right now, sorry. Using 0.9 is probably not an option anyway for you since WPMU uses different style cookies unless there is a plugin to solve that (and there might be, I am not sure).

I assume you looked at the user meta directly to ensure the roles are set correctly for bbpress?

[Nola1974]

does bbpress use it’s own Ajax decryption? I’m OK with following/mucking up php and html, but all that Ajax stuff is beyond me.

This could be related to the albatross that is ‘integration’ that seems to haunt me from host to host. Now, I WORK at the webhost and have access to root and WHM and everything, but still… I’ve never been able to get WPMU and bbpress to play nice. I’ve followed every set of instructions I can find on it, too. Nothing seems to work. (cant wait for the new versions!)

[_ck_]

Just a thought but I would look at the wp nonce if it’s only happening with ajax. If it’s not being sent or interpreted correctly, I don’t think bbpress will let you do admin actions, even if you are admin.

(Oh and the newest Suhosin has the option to hide itself in phpinfo)

[Nola1974]

I got paros running, could login to a bunch of sites (gmail, yahoo, here) but kept asking me for my bbpress’ login over and over.

What exactly do you want to see from the session in paros?

GET http://geekdc.com/forum/bb-admin HTTP/1.1

Host: geekdc.com

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Paros/3.2.13

Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5

Accept-Language: en-us

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

Keep-Alive: 300

Proxy-Connection: keep-alive

Referer: http://geekdc.com/forum/bb-admin/

Cookie: __utma=164913321.806591864.1206118840.1206381545.1206389257.5; __utmz=164913321.1206118840.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); ?wordpressuser?=admin; ?wordpresspass?=33b7fd3d41082aeb1764e84c5e297d8f; ‘wordpressuser’=admin; ‘wordpresspass’=33b7fd3d41082aeb1764e84c5e297d8f

Content-length: 0

[chrishajer]

Did you download the legacy 2.3 version for bbPress versions prior to .9, or are you trying to run v3?

https://plugins-dev.bbpress.org/browser/support-forum/branches/2.3

[12thharmonic]

“Plugin could not be activated; it produced a Fatal Error.”

I am running BBPress 0.8.3.1

I have re downlodad the plugin in case of a bad copy. Still no joy.

[chrishajer]

I just got an email from someone with a WordPress 2.2.2 site, and all of the sudden she lost the ability to create a new post (in the last month anyway). She gets a javascript error. Take a look at the screenshot:

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/ajax-permissions.jpg

She is using IE7. I did not get the same error when I logged into her blog and created a new test post or page (with either IE7 or FF.) So, she cleared her cookies and everything is back to normal. Maybe it’s something simple like that for you as well.

I wonder if there was some sort of update on the server (or a couple different hosting companies or something) that is causing these problems. Maybe they upgraded a package because of a vulnerability?

[so1o]

this make widgets work in forum..

this is only for the 2.3.x wordpress and current version of bbpress .. the new version of wordpress and bbpress might have a different approach

http://www.adityanaik.com/integratepress-part-i/

[chrishajer]

Yeah, I’d say the Suhosin thing doesn’t apply to your situation.

Interesting. Can you run with a local proxy server like Paros to see what’s going back and forth when you try some of those admin functions?

I am running bbPress 0.8.3.1 and WP 2.x(something) but not MU. I am not having any trouble like that, but obviously some people are.

Does using a different browser make the problem any different? What browser and OS are you using when you see the problem?

[Nola1974]

Running BBpress 0.8.3.1, WordPressMU 1.3.3, PHP 5.25

I don’t see any sort of indication of Suhosin, etc:

http://geekdc.com/phpinfo.php

I just tried a bunch of things and any and only admin functions that involve Ajax gives me the “You do not have permission to do that.” error.

[chrishajer]

How about the “Human Test” plugin?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

[chrishajer]

Oh, and to put it in the root directory, just move all the files from the bbpress folder into the root folder for your website. That assumes there is no other site in the root folder right now to conflict with. But if you just want a forum for your website, put everything in the root folder, not a folder called bbpress.

I’m not sure what else has to happen for you to make that move now. Since you don’t have too much going on there yet, you might want to just reinstall it in the root folder.

[rleon]

this is a new installation and I think I missed something .. The links are going some where else that is not in the bbpress directory.

http://thefouragreements.rleon.net/bbpress/

Also how would I put it in the root directory ?

thanks

rleon

[tyrun101]

@mdwaffe – has there been any work on the bbpress exporter?

Has anyone else seen anything that would work to export bbpress discussion tables?

I need to switch over to a vanilla install, and so far I’ve had to manually export/import the user tables (which wasn’t too difficult), however, the discussion tables look a bit more complex.

Thanks

[bradsucks]

I’m not 100% sure this is a bbPress problem or a WordPress problem but I have a large number of spammy user signups each day. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

[askibinski]

We build a bbpress forum integrated with WordPress and a custom template at http://www.wiatrak.nl/forum

We also have a Polish translation available for the forum if anyone is interested.

[Nola1974]

This is apparently caused by servers running the Suhosin PHP hardening patch… it encrypts cookies. I was having a simlar problem about a year ago on another site:

Can’t post. Topic turns yellow. Can’t delete.

I found this plugin for WP that fixes it (in WP).. it’s apparently a bug in WP’s AJAX handling. Perhaps something similar is going on inside BBpress’ AJAX functionality?

http://sparepencil.com/code/ajax-referer-fix/

in pluggable.php (current)

if ( !function_exists('bb_check_ajax_referer') ) :

function bb_check_ajax_referer() {

if ( !$current_name = bb_get_current_user_info( 'name' ) )

die('-1');



$cookie = explode('; ', urldecode(empty($_POST['cookie']) ? $_GET['cookie'] : $_POST['cookie'])); // AJAX scripts must pass cookie=document.cookie

foreach ( $cookie as $tasty ) {

if ( false !== strpos($tasty, bb_get_option( 'usercookie' )) )

$user = substr(strstr($tasty, '='), 1);

if ( false !== strpos($tasty, bb_get_option( 'passcookie' )) )

$pass = substr(strstr($tasty, '='), 1);

}



if ( $current_name != $user || !bb_check_login( $user, $pass, true ) )

die('-1');

do_action('bb_check_ajax_referer');

}

endif;

From above mention (wordpress) plugin:

if (!function_exists('check_ajax_referer')) :

function check_ajax_referer() {

// Explode cookie data like WordPress normally does

$cookie = explode('; ', urldecode(empty($_POST['cookie']) ? $_GET['cookie'] : $_POST['cookie'])); // AJAX scripts must pass cookie=document.cookie

foreach ( $cookie as $tasty ) {

if ( false !== strpos($tasty, USER_COOKIE) )

$user = substr(strstr($tasty, '='), 1);

if ( false !== strpos($tasty, PASS_COOKIE) )

$pass = substr(strstr($tasty, '='), 1);

}



// This variable is set when cookie data was sent in an encrypted fashion

// For more information:

// * http://forum.hardened-php.net/viewtopic.php?pid=616

// * http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/

if(isset($_SERVER['RAW_HTTP_COOKIE']))

{

// Explode the raw (HTTP) cookie data using the WP method

$crypt_cookie = explode('; ', $_SERVER['RAW_HTTP_COOKIE']);

foreach ( $crypt_cookie as $tasty ) {

if ( false !== strpos($tasty, USER_COOKIE) )

$crypt_user = substr(strstr($tasty, '='), 1);

if ( false !== strpos($tasty, PASS_COOKIE) )

$crypt_pass = substr(strstr($tasty, '='), 1);

}

// Set $user and $pass to the decrypted values if the cookies match

if($crypt_user == $user && $crypt_pass == $pass)

{

$user = $_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE];

$pass = $_COOKIE[PASS_COOKIE];

}

}



if ( !wp_login( $user, $pass, true ) )

die('-1');

do_action('check_ajax_referer');

}

endif;

[_ck_]

Well I very much appreciate the donation (though unnecessary) but you’ve only half fixed your problem by disabling the pretty permalinks you used to have. I figured your priority was getting back online asap.

You need to check that your don’t have any higher htaccess rules interfering with your bbpress htaccess, and that bbpress’s htaccess rules are fresh and correct. Don’t use multiviews in your htaccess on godaddy, make sure you go here and get the proper rules to copy into the /forums/.htaccess

http://www.eidolonai.com/forum/bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php

I also am concerned that you mention using the word “slug” (singular) in your bb-config.php when it should be

$bb->mod_rewrite = slugs;

(plural)

[Nola1974]

I was using the Display Name plugin, and now I can’t add new forums to the bbpress. Is there anythingI should do to reverse whatever it did to screw up the permissions?

After a couple of weeks and double checking I did everthing you outlined up there,, I *still* can’t get the cookie thing straightened out. I just cant seem to get single-login to work.. I’ve tried just about everyting I’ve found on the forum. (maybe that’s it… too many things?)

[chrishajer]

It worked when I did it.

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/GregJames-560.png

BTW – I just gave it 20px of whitespace on the sides. This forum here has 40px of whitespace on either side of the content. I always thought this forum looked too narrow, so I didn’t add that much whitespace when I made yours 560px wide.

[chrishajer]

Find the elements in the page that you wish to apply new styles to, then add those styles to the style.css in your bbPress template folder.

I find the web developer toolbar by Chris Pederick invaluable for this sort of thing. You can hover over the item, find out the class or ID, then edit the CSS while still viewing the page. Then, once it does what you want, make the edit permanent in your style.css.

[crazlunatic]

So what I did was take my original WordPress template and put it in the templates folder and it gave me this:

http://vistarewired.com/test2/wp-content/bbpress/

This is what I want except I want to center it, add some grey boxes behind it and that is pretty much it. How do I do this? Because I’m using the same CSS I used for my original blog template which is at http://vistarewired.com

[chrishajer]

I think you might want to get on IRC and try to raise sambauers.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/talkpress#post-13406

I’m not sure what the best bbPress revision is for using WordPress 2.5RC1. I think when WordPress 2.5 comes out, there will be a new bbPress release to match up with it. I know WordPress 2.5 was scheduled for March 10th but that’s been held up just a little bit.