The original KeyMaster created on install has suddenly lost the ability to create new forums. The following error message is displayed.
“You don’t have permission to do that.”
I created a new user and bumped it up to Keymaster and it does have the ability to create new forums.
With some guidance from _ck_ I went into phpmyadmin and compared the bb_capabilities between the two users. There was a slight difference (which I stupidly didn’t record), so I copied the capabilities from the new keymaster and pasted them in place of the old keymasters capabilities.
Unfortunately this did not resolve the problem. Both keymasters have identical usermeta now, and its still not working.
I have bbpress integrated with WordPress, so the user data is shared between the two systems.
Any ideas?
This is still an issue for me. I downloaded bbPress a few days ago. I don’t have a reply form when viewing single topics. When I click the >> next to Reply, I get the following path: topic/13?replies=1#postform (I’m using pretty urls)
What is the correct path to the reply form?
It’s absolutely based on the traffic of your forum… my forum seems to have new content indexed within about 12 hours, but sometimes it might be up to a day.
Requirements
MySQL 4.0 ( I would look for 5.x for futureproofing)
PHP 4.2 ( Again, I would look for 5.x here)
Apache with mod_rewrite
That’s all your host needs to offer. I would expect to pay less than $10/month. It might be a lot less if the host does not offer shell access (just FTP.)
I learned from a search on The WordPress forums that my “Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted” can be addressed via an edit of php.ini. However I don’t think that is an option as I’m on a shared server and it is pre set and the host won’t budge.
Additionally I also learned they are running a very old version of php and have no plans of upgrading.
So I think it will be time to make a change.
I lack the experience and ability to have a broader view as to what my needs are and will be regarding seeking a new host and would like some guidance from people not only more experienced but with an eye to the future development of bbpress and wordpress.
In short, what minimum features should I be looking for, who do you recommend, and what should I pay? I will need a company with good tech support as I’m a dog trainer first and site manager second and that’s a really distant second. It wouldn’t be possible at all without the assistance these forums provide.
jw
bbPress does not create the .htaccess file. You have to manually create it with a text editor either on the server, on locally, then upload it. The file can contain one of two things:
1. Options +MultiViews
or
2. visit http://website.com/dir/bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php
That script will generate the rules you need to put in your .htaccess file. Use this if the first option does not work.
If you cannot get permalinks working, just change the mod_rewrite line to false in your config, so you can at least use your forum until you get permalinks working.
$bb->mod_rewrite = false;
I noticed that it depends on how much traffic the forum gets. If the forum has lots of activity, it gets indexed more quickly. It also seems to matter if you use the Google webmaster tools like the sitemap. I notice that soon after logging into the webmaster tools to check on *whatever*, Google crawls most of my sites.
I also see a direct correlation between how busy the forum is and how many spam registrations there are. More legitimate activity, more spammers register every day.
I’ve had a look through the forum and this seems common, but my problem seems different.
The forum is there, but almost everything I click on goes to a 404 page.
I’ve tried changing the config.php back to mod rewrite = false, and I’ve tried deleting the database and starting again.
I’d be grateful for any help and advice.
It’s at http://www.gudbux.com/community/bbpress
Thank you.
MC
How long does it take for Google to index your bbPress posts? Minutes, hours, days?
I think i’m going to take your advice ck and not include the call to wp in bbpress.
There’s little reason to run WP *inside* bbPress and it only makes for headaches. Running them integrated but standalone makes each of them faster and has a side benefit – one can work while the other is down for some reason.
Virtually any of the data you might want from WP can be accessed with a few creative PHP/mysql calls from bbPress. If you let me know specifically what you are trying to do, I will try to help.
Regarding incompatibilities between WP and bbP, see this:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-038-wordpress-integration#post-13713
There *are* incompatibilities right now. Things are in flux.
Still, the only thing i can think of that is causing this is some sort of incompatibility between WordPress 2.3.3 and BBpress 0.8.3.1.
I don’t think problem is with plugins, I think the problem is with the way WordPress is being called by bbPress, in both cases here. Hard to keep things straight with two people reporting problems, but since they’re the same type of problem, I think it’s good that they’re both in the same place.
dreamsofthequill: since _ck_ caught the session issue, I recalled that dotq.org also had a session in the response:
u39872340:~/riverside/bbpress-831 > time curl -I dotq.org
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:33:49 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://dotq.org/xmlrpc.php
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=263b0ed23debf73f72bb98c377fb5fbb; path=/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
real 0m5.749s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.000s
Maybe the issues are the same?
The server that Chris tested did have a few of plugins running at the time (Allow Images, Avatar Upload, Quote, Comment Quicktags) but regardless, the second test forum has no plugins and has the same errors.
As far as why i’m running wp and bbpress, thats so i don’t have to change multiple files whenever there’s an update to the header, footer, sidebar etc. and so i can use wordpress functions in sidebar to show recent posts, etc. Its one website so i’d like it to have just one set up templates.
noyz319: I would try a stock installation of bbPress without the WordPress stuff. The require_once wp-blog-header.php seems to be fouling it up.
Just out of curiosity, why are you trying to run WP at the same time (within) bbPress? I don’t just mean integration, but simultaneous loading of WP within bbPress.
It’s a massive load that should be avoided if possible.
The command line test Chris made shows a PHP session.
bbPress by iteself without plugins does not initiate PHP sessions.
So what’s causing the sessions?
On the second test site i have setup i am not using any plugins in bbpress. I think the problem might be bigger than just IE, as indicated by the command line test Chris made and also since validator.w3.org is returning a 404 every time.
You’re possibly getting 404’s only in IE because of session issues in Internet Explorer.
bbPress doesn’t use sessions by default so some other plugin must be putting them in (I have one that does and so does bb-post-views and possibly a few others).
IE is *very* picky about how sessions are done.
What plugins are you using?
Also, are you using multiviews in the .htaccess for bbPress? That could cause some issues. If so, use the real rewrite rules instead.
I have the code to work with the new field in the DB all ready and tested. To test it I just created a new column in the user table manually. Is there a way to do it automatically on install?
I.E. bbpress creates a bunch of tables and fields when it is first activated, how can I alter what tables are created and what columns they possess?
Since godaddy takes a few hours to recognize htaccess files i did the php5 thing on the hostgator hosted site (formatmag.com) instead and it’s still giving the 404 errors despite the change.
http://clutchmagonline.com/forums/phpinfo.php (running 4.3.11)
http://formatmag.com/bbpress/phpinfo.php (now running php 5.2.2)
Also, one other thing i noticed with the hostgator hosted site is when i login into the admin and click the Users link it gives me this message “You are not allowed to do this here”.
As soon as i remove the call to wp-blog-header.php then the 404’s stop and the validator sites work with the forum URLs again.
When clicking the reply button, the ‘reply’ string appears in the url, but the comment form does not appear.
When I enable pretty urls, the urls do not work. This is because I don’t have a .htaccess file, though. Why don’t I have one? I thought that bbPress creates it, like WP does.