[lookfab]

Yes, the wordpress user exists. The passwords are the same.

The really strange thing now is that WP has stopped working (it did before I started tinkering with bbpress). I get “Error establishing a database connection” when I try to view the blog.

Even weirder, it seems that IIS “forgot” that index.php was a valid default page. I had to go back in and change this setting.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

How are you calling bbPress from WordPress?

There seems to be something wrong with your webserver. Requests to a real pdf file should not be executing any PHP at all.

[jolaedana]

I didn’t have any parent children forums- stayed away from that and kept it all top level.

I basically just modified the basic theme that comes with the forums- the only thing I changed was the CSS, so the index.php file should be the same, aside from the few things I added in to call the “who’s online” list and the like.

<?php

require(‘./bb-load.php’);

$bb_db_override = false;

do_action( ‘bb_index.php_pre_db’, ” );

if ( isset($_GET) && ‘1’ == $_GET ) :

$forums = false;

elseif ( !$bb_db_override ) :

$forums = get_forums(); // Comment to hide forums

$topics = get_latest_topics();

$super_stickies = get_sticky_topics();

endif;

do_action( ‘bb_index.php’, ” );

bb_load_template( ‘front-page.php’, array(‘bb_db_override’, ‘super_stickies’) );

?>

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

On second thought, I’m not sure how much that will help. Prior to upgrading, did you have hierarchical forums (parents and children)?

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Strange indeed. Can you open up your theme’s index.php and paste the code that displays the forum table? (If you need help finding that code, just let me know).

[jolaedana]

I’m getting the vibe this is a mystery. I haven’t been able to find anything similar so far, and looking through the source hasn’t helped out at all either.

[Jaithn]

And this line to use the user table from wpmu.



define('CUSTOM_USER_TABLE', 'wp_users');



And IIRC, that's already in the config file, just commented out.

i don’t have these lines in my bbpress config file…do i need them?

jaithn

[chrishajer]

Is there anything logged by MySQL? Does the wordpress user actually exist, and is the password in both wp-config.php and (bbpress) config.php the same?

Sorta stumped …

[_ck_]

New (permanent) home for the showcase:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

In other news I’ll be returning to work on the showcase later this week/month and finally updating the list as well as releasing some more plugins/themes.

[_ck_]

New (permanent) home for the list and the showcase:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100

In other news I’ll be returning to work on the showcase later this week/month and finally updating the list as well as releasing some more plugins/themes.

[_ck_]

See #3 in my post here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-intregation-between-wordpress-038-bbpress-not-work?replies=7#post-10428

[lookfab]

Thanks Chris.

> can you try connecting to that database

Yes, I did this with the MySQL cmd line client and I can connect fine. The bbpress settings are really simple:

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘wordpress’);

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘XXXXXXXX’);

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”);

And for WP:

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘wordpress’);

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘XXXXXXXX’);

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

Here is the info from the MySQL database after connecting as the ‘wordpress’ user:

mysql> show databases;

+

---

+

| Database |

+

---

+

| information_schema |

| wordpress |

+

---

+

3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Is there any way to get more detailed diagnostic info from the install process?

[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