[tvon]

i’d love to use bbpress! Any idea when a phpbb3 converter is being made?

[chrishajer]

To start a new topic or reply to a thread? I think it would be easy enough to have a form on a page that submits to bb-post.php, but how would it keep all the topic and reply stuff straight? (I guess that’s not your question, but I just can’t get past it.)

I don’t think you would call a template page directly though. Those template files are called by bbPress files in the root folder. So calling one directly is probably not intended.

Just thinking out loud. Not sure how to accomplish it but it’s interesting to think about.

[chrishajer]

This is a common problem with the latest release, especially on GoDaddy (and Dreamhost too, I think.) Anyway, the problem you’re describing has been fixed in the trunk releases but not in the public release. The best thing to do would be to download a later revision like r971 or r980. See these posts from sambauers:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/intergration-will-not-let-me-logon-using-my-wordpress-login?replies=30#post-12803

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/broken-profiles-for-users-with-spaces-in-the-names?replies=5#post-12769

Here is the page where you can download r971 (probably your best bet):

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk?rev=971

[livibetter]

You must login, then click on New Ticket.

WordPress Support/Extend/Trac and bbPress Forums/Extend/Trac all can be logged in with the same username and password.

[joeknockz]

Sadly enough I thinK I’m going to have to give up on this one. I’ve tried everything and I can’t get something as simple as the Install.php to perform. Beyond that, while reading around it seems that the majority of problems come AFTER the install..so this journey could be a troublesome one if I continued. I try not to be a quitter but “ease of use” isn’t something that goes hand-in-hand with bbpress and I have a deadline. I don’t have a few days to wait to get it all settled, but thanks if you read this far……I’ll probably settle with smf or vanilla…

[joeknockz]

I think my problem lies within my database area……I was adding database name and usernames that were in my wordpress wp_config.php

Do I have to create my own database for bbpress through MySQL on my godaddy Linux hosting……..?

I’ve really been trying for about 5 hours straight to figure this out….

Install directions just seem so vague to me

[joeknockz]

Hi during the install of bbpress something must have gone wrong since I’m getting a “page not found” display when I attempt to bring up my “install.php”

I’ll go over every step in hopes to find the problem.

When opening config.php I changed:

BBDB_NAME

BBDB_USER

BBDB_PASSWORD

BBDB_DOMAIN

and

BBDB_EMAIL

All to what those fields said in my wordpress wp_config.php file.

I installed my bbpress folder inside my wordpress folder.

My wordpress folder is directly under my site folder.

I do have multiple domains under the same server but that shouldn’t create any type of problem.

The location of my bbpress should be: http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/bbpress/

So I changed the value in my config.php file to the address above.

I also changed the values of >wp_home and >wp_siteurl

to reflect what it says under my wordpress/options/

Do you see anything that I’ve done wrong? Or am forgetting to do?

[Ben L.]

I can’t seem to make a ticket on the trac. Here’s the contents of what I want to say:

With the way bbPress is currently set up, an Administrator could, just by editing the profile of a Key Master, remove the Key Master privileges. I suggest editing Key Master profiles cannot be done by anyone but Key Masters, or the administration portion of the profile should not be shown to anyone lower than Key Master if they are editing the profile of a Key Master.

[joeknockz]

Hi my website is thelegalhustle.com

I just tried installing bbpress, did everything as it said and when I go to the install page i get this message:

“Warning: mysql_get_server_info(): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/usr/local/mysql-5.0/data/mysql.sock’ (2) in /home/content/j/o/e/joeknockz/html/thelegalhustle/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/db.php on line 73

Warning: mysql_get_server_info(): A link to the server could not be established in /home/content/j/o/e/joeknockz/html/thelegalhustle/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/db.php on line 73

Cannot select DB.”

I go through GoDaddy on a Linux server so it supports everything bbpress needs…I’m not sure where the error lies..

[tvon]

any progress on importing phpbb3??

[djuggler]

To eliminate WordPress as a possible problem, I have tried a fresh install of BBPress 0.8.3 in a new directory ~/make2for1_com/ for a throwaway domain I had laying around http://make2for1.com/ The database is a freshly created MySQL 4 db. PHP is using version 4.4.7 The .htaccess uses the code generated with http://make2for1.com//bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php and nothing else. The config is the sample file with all the appropriate blanks filled in and nothing more.

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘slugs’; is set.

Trying to get to a profiles produces a 404. Trying to read a discussion produces a 404. If I change $bb->mod_rewrite = false; it works.

[djuggler]

This is the most recent .htaccess based upon /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ /tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /tags.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ /profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ /view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/?$ /rss.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ /rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>

I also tried:

Options +MultiViews

And here’s the config.php

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘CORRECT’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘CORRECT’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘CORRECT’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘CORRECT’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// 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://talk.tnlotteryresults.com/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Discuss the Tennessee Lottery’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘juggler@gmail.com’;

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

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘slugs’;

// 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 = -5;

// 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 = ‘0123456789ab’; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ”; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://new.tnlotteryresults.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://new.tnlotteryresults.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

//The following allow users from the WordPress blog to mix with the bbpress users

define(‘USER_BBDB_NAME’,’CORRECT_BUT_DIFFERENT_THAN_ABOVE’);

define(‘USER_BBDB_USER’,’CORRECT_BUT_DIFFERENT_THAN_ABOVE’);

define(‘USER_BBDB_PASSWORD’,’CORRECT_BUT_DIFFERENT_THAN_ABOVE’);

define(‘USER_BBDB_HOST’,’CORRECT_BUT_DIFFERENT_THAN_ABOVE’);

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

Thanks for gandering!

[djuggler]

I have now installed wordpress2.3 at http://new.tnlotteryresults.com/ and bbpress 0.8.3 at http://talk.tnlotteryresults.com/ They are located in two physically separate directories using two different databases with no .htaccess in any parent directory. Matter of fact, all parent directories between root and each of the sites are empty. Pretty permalinks work on http://new.tnlotteryresults.com/ and fail on http://talk.tnlotteryresults.com/

I have edited the .htaccess with both methods shown in the installation instructions as well as making sure that I had ‘slugs’ in the config.php

Why does WordPress implement pretty permalinks so easily and bbpress is so resistant?

[chrishajer]

Using the currently available packaged release of bbPress has got to be frustrating a lot of people. Most people, I would guess, just want to download something and have it work, not deal with patches or trying to guess which revision is best suited (is it 980 or 971?) to their situation based on the WordPress version and whether or not they’re integrated.

At the very least, it should be a FAQ or sticky that explains how to do it, before the questions come…

[chrishajer]

Thanks for the correction Sam. Any thoughts on this post I made with regard to a new bbPress release to fix all these database issues people are having?

[Sam Bauers]

The short answer is that you can’t.

bbPress would have no way to tell whether it was searching for a topic or a forum.

[Asbjørn Ulsberg]

As I’ve written elsewhere, I’ve gotten everything up and running with trunk. As it might not be compatible with the release of WordPress I’m using (2.3.1), I’m wondering when a release of bbPress that fixes these problems and is compatible with WP 2.3.1 (or with the then latest available release of WP) will be available?

[chrishajer]

I think there should be a new release before 0.8.4 that fixes all the stuff that was messed up with db-mysqli.php and the usernames with spaces or special characters in them. Call it whatever you want, but I don’t think those fixes should wait until 0.8.4. Just look through this forum for the number of people who have had database problems. Having a release or at least posting a sticky on how to get revision 980 seems like the right thing to do. Right now 0.8.3 is broken for a lot of people. It makes bbPress look bad.

[chrishajer]

1. Go to trac.bbpress.org

2. Click login

3. Once you’re logged in, click New Ticket

[itissue]

I used a plugin at http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/63?replies=4#post-695

for signatures, and it works great except that other users aren’t able to choose a signature. The signature option isn’t available for users other than the key master. Is this supposed to happen? If not, how may I fix this problem so other users can have a signature as well?

[Sam Bauers]

I was actually suggesting that the user-level stuff stay off there and be concentrated in the documentation here on bbPress.org

But if people are keen about writing docs then perhaps bbPulp can be a sandbox for that and when content matures it can be pulled across here to the “official” documentation.

[outchy]

Hey all, I need some help. Basically, I don’t want the post form showing up on any of the main pages but instead, I’d like to create a separate page called newpost.php that contains only the post form that I can link to from all appropriate pages. But when I create this page and try hitting it, it either cannot be found by typing in /bbpress/newpost.php or shows up as a blank page when I type in the full url to the theme (bbpress/bb-templates/theme/newpost.php).

Any ideas on how to get this to work?

[livibetter]

I have kept reading this forums for about a month. I saw many similar processes of solving the same problem.

Not long ago, I asked Sam Bauers a question about bbpulp.org on IRC:

<livibetter> can we (users) expand it? like FAQ, troubleshooting, theme modifications?

<livibetter> there are many questions asked again and again on forums. If we can systematically organize a collection of these, then may be easily to give a solution for their questions.

<sambauers> Yeah, go ahead.

<sambauers> It is a wiki after all 

<sambauers> Although it was focused on being a developers resource.

<livibetter> Thanks! I will post a post for this, and hope many other user will do the same thing.

<sambauers> If you wanted to look at the actual bbPress.org documentation

<sambauers> you are welcome to suggest additions and edits of the pages there

<livibetter> I see

<sambauers> It makes more sense to compile FAQs there for instance

<sambauers> And installation/integration notes

<sambauers> Which will soon need updating anyway

<livibetter> means 0.8.4 coming soon?

<sambauers> Probably not until WordPress 2.4

If we can collect and organize these solutions well, we can be more easier to help. I did a small change on the main page, not really start to write something. I took a while to write those new entries, it’s harder than I can imagine. I can’t make them systematic. And that’s still not good, but collaboration can correct mistakes and build a great stuff.

So, Let’s collaborate!

[chrishajer]

revision 980 (scroll to the bottom and download the zip):

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk?rev=980

Discussed here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/db-access-problem-in-the-first-installation-step?replies=26#post-12711

and here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/broken-profiles-for-users-with-spaces-in-the-names?replies=5#post-12769

[chrishajer]

It is fixed in the latest development version, I believe. There just hasn’t been a release that includes that functionality.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/db-access-problem-in-the-first-installation-step?replies=26#post-12711