[ronjroy]

Thanks Trent,

I’ve tried to use the old information and I have re-installed and deleted and reinstalled bbpress and still getting the same error. I’m stumped since I have very little knowledge about data base.

[Trent Adams]

Assuming the database before your “upgrade” still exists, putting in the correct information for that database connection in your config.php will get the old bbPress installation back. If you “deleted” the database, you will have to put the new database information back into your config.php and run the installation script again.

Hope that helps.

Trent

[ronjroy]

Thanks,

So do I then complete a new config.php and the data base will then be created, if so, how does this affect access to bbpress forum?

[ronjroy]

Hi,

I had to uninstall and re-install EasyPHP and now I am unable to connect to my forum through localhost as I get ‘cannot open DB. I have no understanding of configuring MYSQL and I am thinking that this might be the problem. Will I need to uninstall bbpress and re-install it and if so, will I use the same config.php? I tried this and it is not working. What to do?

[Heliotropen]

Well i just tried it out, and the plugin dont work with the newest mediawiki; i got: “Wiki has a problem

Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.

Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.

(Can’t contact the database server: Unknown error)”

[Heliotropen]

That is my logik too, but have you tried it? ; on the web-site they write:

“This extension is tested with Mediawiki 1.6.9 (the latest release for PHP4) and wordpress 2.1. It will not work (yet) for Mediawiki > 1.6.9 (because of PHP5) but the next version will be PHP5 ready.”

[Heliotropen]

I ended up making my own themes from scratch..

[fel64]

I don’t understand. PHP5 runs PHP4 code just fine; if it runs on 4, it will run on 5. (Other way around may be a problem, but that doesn’t seem to be it?) The plugin might not use features of 5, but it will run under 5.

[Heliotropen]

What a cool guide, – huge shoulder claps from me to you!

There is one HUGE problem though;

1.this plugin is no longer avaible?

https://codex.wordpress.org/User:RobLa/bbPress_Auth_for_MediaWiki

2. this IS, BUT, it is wrtiten that it dosn’t suport php5 (therefor any useable media wiki installations right now.)

http://hery.blaogy.org/2007/02/21/mediawiki-wordpress-integration/

Is there any plugin or way out there, to make the step nr. 4 in the guide possible. – The mix is not soo cool, with wordpress & bbpress intigration only.

In advance thnx.

/Helio

[llabrealityblog]

Here it is.

// ** MySQL settings **

//define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘xxxx’);

// The name of the databasedefine(‘BBDB_USER’, xxxx);

// Your MySQL usernamedefine(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxx’);

// …and passworddefine(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

// 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

// 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://llabrealityblog.x10hosting.com/wordpress/bbpress’;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘LLAB`s Reality Board’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘worldostuff@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 = 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’, ‘English’);

// 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’

$bb->wp_siteurl = ”;

// WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL)

// Example: ‘http://example.com’

/* Stop editing *

/if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) ) define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

[chrishajer]

OK – everything appears to be in the correct location now. I think there is just a simple problem with the config.php database details now. Can you verify that these 4 are absolutely accurate in your config.php?

define('BBDB_NAME', 'xxxxxxxx');

define('BBDB_USER', 'xxxxxxxxx');

define('BBDB_PASSWORD', 'xxxxxxxx');

define('BBDB_HOST', 'xxxxxxxx');

The host might not be localhost. Mine is not. And you don’t have a syntax error in the file (like a missing or extra quote) but something like one of those values is inaccurate. Posting it here in edited form won’t help, you have to verify that the database name, user, password and host are all accurate. You’re the only one who can do that. Once you have that, we need to get back to the original problem.

[llabrealityblog]

Okay, I moved the config.php file, and the same error keeps coming up.

I’ve also deleted the forums folder and moved the bbPress folder to /wordpress.

[llabrealityblog]

No, it was in the control panel.

[chrishajer]

This is accessible:

http://llabrealityblog.x10hosting.com/wordpress/forums/bbpress/bb-templates/kakumei/screenshot.png

So, my guess is that extra directory “forums” is causing trouble, and that you have the config.php in that directory instead of the proper bbpress directory.

You can eliminate that forums directory if you want, unless you’re planning on running multiple forum software. If you eliminate that forum directory, make sure you update the config.php so the paths there match your webserver paths.

The big problem I think is that your config.php is in the forums folder instead of the bbpress folder where it belongs.

And I don’t think it has anything to do with phpMyAdmin (I thought it did since that’s when you said you couldn’t log in, after the talk of phpMyAdmin – maybe you never installed that?)

[chrishajer]

regarding your setup

1. did you install phpMyAdmin yourself, or is it part of a control panel?

2. did you edit any config files by hand?

3. what do your installation directories look like (i.e. where did you install phpMyAdmin in relation to the other directories you have for your WP and bbPress installations?)

is it something like

/home/llab/public_html/wordpress/

/home/llab/public_html/wordpress/forums/bbpress/

---

(why the extra directory here ^?)

/home/llab/public_html/phpMyAdmin/

Is your config file for bbpress in the forums directory or the bbpress directory? (IMPORTANT)

I think the forums directory is extra, and maybe that’s causing problems?

[llabrealityblog]

> Can you give more details about what you setup?

I simply added my username and password into the user database.

—

> Clear your cookies, attempt to log in, check what cookies were set. Tell us.

I would, if I could get into the board.

[fel64]

> I have it installed, now I can’t log in.

Cookie problem. Clear your cookies, attempt to log in, check what cookies were set. Tell us.

[chrishajer]

Sounds like you need to set the database details in the config for phpMyAdmin. Can you give more details about what you setup?

[llabrealityblog]

I added my account in using phpMyAdmin, but now I’m getting this error:

Cannot select DB.

I can’t load my forum anymore. It keeps displaying that error.

[chrishajer]

Depending on your host, there might be a control panel of some sort. In there, you want to find a tool called phpMyAdmin. If that’s there, you’re in good shape. You can also access the database from the command line, if you have ssh access, or if you just have FTP access, you can still install phpMyAdmin in your own account. You need some way to access the database, at least to see if the users are being created.

[llabrealityblog]

I will do that.

Thanks for all your help so far, guys, I really appreciate it.

ETA: I have no idea how to look in the database. I’m kind of new to the whole “hosting my own forums” thing.

[neyoung]

ok. I’ve figured out whats causing the problem. It comes down to the Default Role Plugin. There is nothing wrong with the plugin itself other than the fact that it relies on wordpress functions. Thus you need to load wp along with bbpress. To do so I have the following added to the top of my config.php file.

require_once('../wp-blog-header.php');

define('WP_BB', true);

With the two lines in the config.php file the allow images plugin does no work. I even tried disabling the Default Roles plugin and leaving the 2 lines in config.php to make sure the plugin wasn’t the culprit. If I remove the two lines the Allow Images plugin works as expected.

I don’t know much, but I could take a stab at whats happening. Is it possible that when a reply/topic is made, bbpress is calling wordpress functions instead of bbpress functions?

[Trent Adams]

I reported it Chris. Just one of those things. I think bbPress is on the same server as WordPress MU, but I can’t confirm that. It just seems they are both slow at the same time…..

Trent

[howtogeek]

Sweet, I didn’t realize I was in the top 100 too… I just opened mine a month ago.

[chrishajer]

And, the previous one, 20 seconds