[chrishajer]

If it cannot connect to the database, but the database server is working with WordPress, then I suspect something is wrong in the config.php for bbPress. Since we can’t help you with that on your local machine, can you try connecting to that database using the connection details you entered in config.php, with some other tool (phpMyAdmin or whatever comes with a MySQL install)?

[chrishajer]

If you would like to watch the whole forum, there are lots of RSS feeds set up by default in bbPress (tags, new posts, topics, etc), and you could just have those feeds emailed to you by something like Feedblitz http://www.feedblitz.com

You’re also looking for a way to post to the forum via email though, and I don’t know of a way to do that. I know you can post to a blog via email, but I have not seen anything like that for bbPress (or any other forum actually.)

[lookfab]

I have a WP 2.3 blog and a bbpress 0.83 install 0n a LAMP server and everything seems fine.

I’m now creating a staging server on a Vista PC. I have WP 2.3 installed fine. When I install bbpress (i.e. browse to bb-admin/install.php) I get the dreaded “Cannot select DB” message.

I have tried both…

1. creating a new db for bbpress

2. using the existing WP db and username

I’m using mySQL 5.0.37 and PHP 4.

There are other topics that talk about this error, but they don’t seem to be relevant to my case. Please point me in the right direction if I have missed something in the forums.

[jolaedana]

Hello all,

Very odd issue!

I seem to be missing some forums:

http://forums.audreysargent.com/

There should be three additional forums, “The Cafe”, “The Design Divan” and “Written Role Play”.

They’re still there, is the odd thing. You just can’t see them in the forum listing on the index page, and they’re not showing up in my admin control panel either.

To prove it, here are links to each of the forums:

http://forums.audreysargent.com/forum/written-role-play

http://forums.audreysargent.com/forum/the-cafe

http://forums.audreysargent.com/forum/the-design-divan

In addition, this problem seems to happen with or without plugins- so it doesn’t seem to be a plugin issue. Though I could be wrong.

I’m not seeing any PHP errors, so I’m not sure how to diagnose the issue. It’s obvious all the content is still there, and even still accessible.

I upgraded the forum BEFORE I upgraded WordPress. Also, it is a fully integrated installation, they share the same database.

Any thoughts? Big thanks in advance to anyone willing to help me troubleshoot.

[chrishajer]

Stefan, take a look at this trac ticket:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/745

mdawaffe is actively working on it.

[besonen]

has anyone expressed a desire to have bbpress integrate/interoperate with mailing lists?

[stefanjohansson]

Just noticed, while installing and integrating WP and BBP.

In WP users can register with a username including a space, such as

“Mr Pace”

In BBP this user would not be able to log in, since usernames with spaces does not work. “Mr Pace” is correctly noticed in the admin control panel but when trying to long theres an error message saying that “MrPace” (without the space between Mr and Pace) is not a registr user.

[kchila]

I am looking to do the exact same thing that has been done in this forum:

subforums and markup

I want to hide the sub-forums from being shown in the homepage because they take up a lot of space, but I simply don’t get it. When it says edit the templates so this looks like this. Which file in the template do I edit. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could explain how to do this.

Thanks,

K

[henrybb]

Well! The plugin has been added to the plugin db:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/69

[_ck_]

Hi, I’ll be working on my bbpress stuff again later in October but thanks for figuring this out. I wouldn’t normally test it with the support forum plugin so I wasn’t aware of that behavior.

Not sure why My Views is trashing the support forum views but I’ll investigate further sometime soon – it might have to do with the way My Views lets you re-order the views, though it should not delete any.

(you’re using v0.08 correct?)

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/db-access-problem-in-the-first-installation-step?replies=7#post-11200

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Miraploy, thanks!

I’ve started a trac ticket to keep track of this bug.

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/745

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

I’ve started a trac ticket to keep track of this bug.

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/745

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Try the info here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/intergration-will-not-let-me-logon-using-my-wordpress-login#post-11183

[chrishajer]

Please post a URL where this can be seen in action. Thanks.

Does your problem sound like this?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-structure-1?replies=12

[kchila]

Hey!

So after the rather simplified installation and integration with WordPress, I finally finished setting up the forum section of my website. But after several unsuccessful attempts, I was unable to get Sub-Forums working. All of the forums I create just show up on the home page as a top-level forum. I then try to put it under a parent forum, but it just doesn’t work. I try everything. I am currently running the latest version of bbPress witht he WOrdpress INtegration Plug’-In installed. I ask that someone please help as this is very important towards the deployment of my site

THANKS!

K

[jom]

Same with me, I tried a vanilla installation of bbPress 0.8.3 on my local machine, however, there is a slight difference:

I entered the ‘root’ as username in config.php, but the error itself is

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Access denied for user ‘www-data’@’localhost’ (using password: NO) in /var/www/bbpress/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

.

There does not exist a user called ‘www-data’ on my mysql-server and I am completely sure that I filled in ‘root’ in config.php.

[ballclub]

I am the admin for a new bbpress forum. First, I cannot get backticks to work. Maybe I’m interpreting the word incorrectly, but when I try to use backticks, like this…

‘strong’bold this’strong’…or ‘strong’bold this’/strong’

it doesn’t bold the word. Please help. Note: When I try traditional tags, like bold this, it works fine. But I want to make it work with backticks since that’s what the help content on the post screen references.

Why can’t the phrasing for the instructions be more specific, like giving an example? And why can’t bbpress just use the word that everyone knows, like ‘single apostrophe’?

Secondly, most people don’t know what an ‘a’ is, or some of the other terms. This backtick content that comes with bbpress is not intuitive for the average person who doesn’t use forums that often. It would be great if there was link to a help file so the user can be shown how to construct backticks with some of the tags displayed like ul, li, img, etc.

[goodwyne]

Prior to implementing bbPress we found that between Bad Behavior and Akismet we just didn’t have a sproblem with comment spam. Of course, if we are ever able to redirect trackbacks to bbPress that could change but I don’t why it should.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

They can be in the same database, and it won’t cause any problems. They can be in different databases too. bbPress will work in either situation, though it’s easier to set up if bbPress and WordPress share the same database.

[vladbuk]

After install bbpress 0.8.3 on windows XP localhost (WAMP5 1.7.3):

if try access to Admin Panel i see warnings and nothing more…

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Access denied for user ‘ODBC’@’localhost’ (using password: NO) in C:wampwwwforumsbb-includesdb-mysqli.php on line 80

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: A link to the server could not be established in C:wampwwwforumsbb-includesdb-mysqli.php on line 80

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:wampwwwforumsbb-includesdb-mysqli.php:80) in C:wampwwwforumsbb-includespluggable.php on line 37

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:wampwwwforumsbb-includesdb-mysqli.php:80) in C:wampwwwforumsbb-includespluggable.php on line 37

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:wampwwwforumsbb-includesdb-mysqli.php:80) in C:wampwwwforumsbb-includespluggable.php on line 164

Forum some working but on top of page i see:

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Access denied for user ‘ODBC’@’localhost’ (using password: NO) in C:wampwwwforumsbb-includesdb-mysqli.php on line 80

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: A link to the server could not be established in C:wampwwwforumsbb-includesdb-mysqli.php on line 80

[stefanjohansson]

Absolutely! The DB has a password and I wrote it correctly in the config-file.

I just read in another thread about other people experiencing the same problem, here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/intergration-will-not-let-me-logon-using-my-wordpress-login?replies=8

[miraploy]

I would like to use bbpress as soon as possible, I would appreciate it if some adventerous soul took a crack at it and made a few code edits.

Thanks.

[stefanjohansson]

Hi!

I am trying to install bbpress with WP 2.3.

In the config-file for bbpress I have written EXACTLY the same databasename, username and password as in the config-file for WP.

Still, when I run the install.php for bbpress I get several lines of “warnings”/error messages before the installation text “Welcome to…”

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Access denied for user ‘nicuuorg’@’localhost’ (using password: NO) in /home/nicuuorg/public_html/neonatologyforparents/wp/bbp/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

Anyone understanding what’s going on.

The WP runs without any problems.

Could it be related to that the username is not correctly read from the config.php-file. The username is nicuuorg_stefanj, but access is denied for 'nicuuorg'@'localhost' according to the warning above.

[brickit]

I’m trying to install BBpress on my website, yet I don’t know what to do for the localhost bit in the config file. Can you help me?