[edwinfoo]

The 2 key issues are server uptime and email reliability.

In the short 4 months that my forum has been running, I’ve had so many incidences of users registering 2 usernames. I’ve come to learn that the 2nd one is out of frustration that the email containing the password did not arrive.

This weekend, I have had no outbound email and sick of spending money on AdWords to bring in people that can’t sign up.

Apart from the registration email, I am using both Auto Favorite & Post Notification plugins. Therefore, reliable email is very important to maintain posting activity.

I’ve read alot about concerns that bbPress isn’t sending email. After extensive testing and in my situation, the problem is with the host.

I’m looking to avoid dedicated hosting at this time because my day job is funding this venture already. Can anyone recommend a hosting service that offers good reliability in both uptime and email?

[howtogeek]

This is a great idea.

I’m not sure if anybody made an official plugin out of this one:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/limit-long-words?replies=13#post-10120

[fel64]

Maybe post-1.0. I think the barrier for entry for running a pre-1.0 thing should be at least being able to install it yourself.

[chrishajer]

That’s a good idea: if a host can offer it pre-installed, it would definitely increase usage. We’d need to get it to a pretty stable point before doing that though.

[_ck_]

I’ve never participated in the WP one but if it’s straightforward enough and has no liability I’ll volunteer to do basic bbPress installs.

I’ve been thinking of looking at the fantastico script for wordpress and hacking it to do bbpress and sending to them to include. That would radically increase the number of installs. Maybe even try to make a regular cpanel script too like the phpbb install (cpaddon).

[_ck_]

If you are installing on a home pc, try installing XAMPP to get an instant (like 1 minute tops) install of apache+mysql+php

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61776

It’s absolutely wonderful.

this is the one for windows specifically if that’s what you have:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61776&package_id=89552

[_ck_]

Before I got to the bottom I almost knew right off it was dreamhost and a localhost issue.

Slugs aren’t working because they don’t do multiviews.

You’ll have to place a real htaccess file into the directory with rewrite rules.

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

[salman1485]

problem solved..

instead of localhost i had to enter the other thing which dreamhost told me …

but now another problem

the forum is working fine http://test.nofullstop.com/bbpress/

but the slugs arnt??

what went wrong now??

[Olaf Lederer]

Well done, maybe you should change the pathes a little. I use geshi on other parts of my website and can’t/won’t use it this way

[_ck_]

I have now updated “My-Views” to support pagination (multi-page) views for all the standard style views.

version 0.09 should be in the plugin browser shortly…

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/67

you can see a demonstration of the feature here:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/latest-discussions

[egonvomberg]

no I didn´t delete the bbpress data. only the wpdata.

I reinstalled all, but still no admin panel.

Users can still register and posting are still there and possible to make.

is there no other way?

[chrishajer]

I think installing PHP and MySQL on localhost is beyond the scope of the bbPress support forums. Looks like you already found this:

http://us2.php.net/mysql

It would be less stressful to just get a hosting account that already supports those PHP and MySQL, then install bbPress there. Then the site can be Internet accessible as well.

Regarding flat file forum software:

myUPB

PBLang

I don’t have experience with any of those, just found them at http://www.opensourcecms.com/

You could also use a hosted solution like Yahoo! Groups or something like that.

[thetooth]

ok ok i’ve try to set it up on my pc again, i installed mysql but how do i compile it with php

ok all i can get is: For compiling, simply use the –with-mysql[=DIR] configuration option where the optional [DIR] points to the MySQL installation directory.

wtf dose that mean can someone tell me what to do. :'(

[thetooth]

hi i was wondering if there is a way to get bbpress to run on a flat-file insted of my sql

i really need this so if you can write something i’d like that too

[Graeme]

There is a facility in the plugin to enter additional URLs that will be generated into the sitemap. This is a way to point google at “/forums/” for a bbPress installation that falls under a wordpress main site. If the sitemap is not valid then I expect it is unlikely that the sitemap will be crawled.

There are also other tools around for validating sitemaps but the google webmaster tools would be the one to trust.

[Andrew]

After much hacking about I figured out the problem.

This post offered a clue:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/getting-bbpress-and-wordpress-to-talk-to-each-other?replies=6#post-6068

It turns out that any global variables declared or set in header.php must also be set in the calling page. I added the following to the top of front_page.php and now the variables are properly set after calling bb_head().

<?php global $research_subscriber; // ‘1’ if user is research subscriber

global $forums_subscriber; // ‘1’ if user is forums subscriber

?>

The global variables don’t need to be set in the calling page in wordpress (single.php, search.php). I have no idea why bbpress handles this differently – must be in the way the header is called.

Much frustration. I hope someone finds this post useful.

[_ck_]

This was my fault apparently.

Somehow the pluggable.php within bbpress was built 1074 when it absolutely needs 1075 to have the new wp_salt function.

So future note for integration to others:

to use the new WordPress 2.4/2.5 trunk

you MUST use bbpress build 1075

build 1074 and build 1076 will not integrate properly as is

[salman1485]

I am not sure what is wrong with my config.php file..

this is a test forum which i am not finalising so i created a new database with new password and new user and updated the config.php file with the details…please tell me what is the problem..am copying the file here (pwd, akismet key, email have been removed)

______________________________________________

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

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

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

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

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 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://test.nofullstop.com/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘test forum’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘something@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 = 15;

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

$bb->edit_lock = 1;

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

$bb->gmt_offset = 0;

// 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’, ‘en’);

// 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’

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

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

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

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

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

?>

______________________________________________

please help me ..

[_ck_]

correction: the cookie value is made from the user name | expiration time | key (where key is calculated from the username+expiration)

Essentially the expiration and therefore the key are changing and I don’t know why. The functions are based on time() so the timezone within bbpress vs wordpress should not matter. And the pluggable functions are identical between the programs.

[chrishajer]

“Put in a plugin” means:

1. create a new file with a text editor.

2. give it a name like “bb-restrict-new-topic.php”

3. create a header in the file that tells bbPress this file is a plugin, like this:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Restrict New Topic

Description: Restrict new topic creation by members

Version: 0.1

*/

4. put the text from that other page into the rest of the file.

5. be sure to close the file with a ?>

6. put that new file in your bb-plugins folder.

7. activate the plugin in your admin panel

8. test test test

I think the plugin file will look like this when you’re done.

http://pastebin.com/f488c97d5

[_ck_]

I’ve got the newest bbpress and the newest WP setup and I managed to get them to share the same cookie name fairly easily.

However the cookie value changes between the two installs for reasons I cannot seem to figure out. One forces the other to logout because of this.

The cookie value seems to be made from the user name | expiration time | hash

Essentially the expiration and hash are changing and I don’t know why.

Logic tells me that the expiration is probably changing because of the hash changing? so why is the hash being calculated differently between the installs?

Does anyone else have the two trunks working together or am I the first guinea pig?

[John Conners]

I’ve experienced this problem in 0.8.3.1. If you follow the password reset link you get emailed and then try to log in from that page you’ll get the key not found error. The reason is the ‘re’ value in the login form is getting set to that password reset link (bb-reset-password.php?key=xxxxxx) so when you log in bbPress bounces you back to that page (as it would do if you logged in from a specific topic) and now that the password has been reset, the key xxxxxx is no longer in the database and the ‘key not found’ error pops up.

The way I’ve worked around it is to do the following prior to calling login_form() on password-reset.php in my template:

<?php global $re; $re = bb_get_option(‘uri’); ?>

The trouble is that in the default template login_form() is in the header so you’ll need to set $re elsewhere or come up with another solution.

Hope that helps!

[purus]

I posted too soon, my apologies. This looks to be exactly what I am looking for. I just hope I can figure out what “put in a plugin” means…

[purus]

Is it possible to designate one board as an announcement board where only admins can create new topics but anyone can view and reply to them?

I tried installing the Restrict Forums plugin but that was buggy and doesn’t seem to be supported any more. The Private Forums works great, but only hides a forum from view.

Are there any other plugins that I am missing that might be able to provide this functionality?

[_ck_]

Nice work.

Looks like there is “only” a 6k penalty on the browser side for the extra javascript and under 1k for the extra css. Bit of work on the server side but it may be worth it for a forum that deal with a lot of code being posted.

Be sure to submit it to the bbpress plugin browser

https://bbpress.org/plugins/add/

so it gets much more exposure.