Is there a problem on Windows servers, or just on localhost on Windows?
Of course my suggestion is only a temporary solution. But I am of the belief that the QA or dev server should be the same configuration as the production server, to eliminate the possibility of bugs being introduced when you go live. Installing this on localhost on a Windows desktop machine and ‘making it work’ when your production site is on a linux server seems to me like too much work.
With bbPress still being beta, I’m not too worried about it. WordPress 1.0-RC1 was released somewhere around Jan 1 2004. Their version before that, 0.72 beta1 was released in August 2003. There’s certainly time to get it right.
How about installing a linux distro in house since your server is linux also?
That’s a temporary solution, but once bbPress goes final and gets publicity the likes of WordPress, this Windows/localhost problem will need to be addressed.
This plugin is a companion to my Add Titles to Replies plugin — that is, the ‘Add Titles to Rplies’ plugin is required for the ‘Latest Replies’ plugin to work.
What it does is to display the latest replies, by title, on the front page of the forum (similar to “Latest Discussions”).
More info and download:
Latest Replies Plugin
Add Titles to Replies Plugin
I have exactly the same “problem”. It all started after converting my phpBB to bbPress so I think thats the problem.
this has happened to me as well. Two new users have registered and have IDs 99999999 and 1000000000. They appear to be spam though so I was very worried that they’d somehow managed to hack their user id from the front end??? Highly unlikely though.
I am wondering if the conversion from phpBB to bbpress has anything to do with it? ( https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/47?replies=12 )
Did you use this wittmania? I did, and these are the first users to register since the migration. I will investigate a bit further over the next few days when i get the chance….
I see that forum in WordPress.org have this toolbar function in reply text area, is it tinyMCE or whatelse Editor?
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/5784/bbpresstoolsqg1.jpg
Here’s how to fix this problem: Download the plugin called Fix bbPress (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/37?replies=4) refresh, and that should fix your problem. It isn’t that you aren’t logging in, it’s just it doesn’t show that you did. Try logging in, then it will show the user name and password fields. Then refresh the page, and it will say you are logged in. Install that plugin though and that will fix your problem.
Do you have any issues transitioning from a desktop environment to a server environment (as I did, with MySQL and PHP versions and configs and such)?
To tell you the truth, I didn’t have any issues going from my Xampp Lite localhost copies, straight to my live servers. I just find it odd though that this whole time of running that bbPress on the localhost, and just applying the SVN updated files from time to time. It was fine..
It was only when I installed it fresh, with the latest copies of Trunk that it gave me this problem. I SVN CO the trunk on my other new domain via SSH and it went smoothly… no troubles though, I guess that’s to be expected. Hmm.. I’ll have to look into the problem a little deeper.
I’m trying to when I have the time, but with being so busy.. it’s hard taking a gander at it…sigh.
How about installing a linux distro in house since your server is linux also?
Geesh, didn’t even think of that, or try it. Thanks for that, I’ll have to give it a go then. 
spencerp
You could disable it just to see if that’s the problem. In addition to removing or modifying the .htaccess file, you need to set
$bb->mod_rewrite = false;
in your config. That will turn off the rewriting completely. Both need to be working for the pretty permalinks to work (i.e. the .htaccess is present, and the $bb->mod_rewrite = true. It doesn’t work on all servers though. Oddly, it works for my WordPress just fine, but not for bbPress which is in a subdirectory, so I have mine set to false for bbPress.)
I would disable it for now, just to see if that’s causing your problem.
It happens for me if people don’t wait for their post to appear. My server has a response time of about 8 seconds (i.e. the “Posted xx seconds ago” at the bottom of the post, always shows 8 there, where on this site, bbpress.org normally shows 0 seconds ago.) So, yes, that does happen, but not enough that I worry about it. It is from people hitting submit twice.
I read about a javascript solution once, but I never looked into it.
I’m getting occasional duplicate posts on bbPress. I’m guessing part of it might be users clicking the submit button twice but I wondered whether this is a problem for anyone else?
I think this is the plugin you were thinking about, Null. It worked very well for me:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/3?replies=7
Thanks. Got it going, but now I get nothing but 404 pages that insist on a call to “http://ourdomain/forum/install/install.php” — which doesn’t exist, and doesn’t exist in any of the documents on the site. Hrmmmm…
This happens when I try to access the main forum page as well as any of the bbpress admin pages. Very strange…
Dear rose01,
All your base are belong to us.
Sincerely,
Your new bbpress.org overlords
As The Animals said, “Oh, Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood!”
Kessel, you may need to try this plugin: Usernames I18N Fix. I had the same problem b/c I had a space in my username and it wouldn’t recognize it. I’m not sure if you can install the plugin before you have run the install routine. If not, go back into WP and create a new user with a *very* simple name, give the dummy user admin rights, and then go through the install. Once you’re in, go to your *real* username, make it a keymaster, and if you have this plugin running you should be all set.
And don’t be such a tool, spencerp. Sheesh. Give the new guy a break.
Here’s one site’s informations:
http://spencerp.net/blah.php
Yeah, I’ve played on the live environments before. Sub domains and such. However, I’m also on crap dial-up connections and don’t always have time to be online. Also, since there is only ONE phone line in the house and the family using the line .. it sucks.
But this issue wasn’t that bad before, it just started up I think the past few times of fondling the bbPress software. They need to fix this shit, and once it’s working good.. leave it the hell alone! LoL! 
spencerp
What OS is the live site/server running? I have always had problems testing on platforms other than the final one, even from linux to linux, with things like PHP and MySQL versions. So, the testing I did never seemed worth it. Why not set up a subfolder or subdomain on the live host and play there, to eliminate variables?
I think the developers could better use their resources making bbPress work in production environments (MS and *nix) rather than on localhost. There seem to be quite a few path/slashconfig issues getting it running on localhost.
OK. At the “First Step” in the installation, bbpress asks for the following:
Administrator
(form box) <—- there is supposed to be a dropdown here!
Enter your username below. You will be made the first Key Master on these forums. Leave this blank if you want to create a new account.
First Forum
Forum Name:* (form box)
Description: (form box)
I get no dropdown. Regardless of what I enter — or even if I leave it blank — it returns, “Username not found.”
Yeah, I setup Xampp Lite on my computer to be able to run WordPress and bbPress. Then I modify things, and play with it on the localhost before uploading things to my live sites/forums..
spencerp
I can access everything. I can log in and log out to WordPress, Coppermine, phpMyAdmin –basically everything.
bbpress still tells me it can’t find the username.
What is bbPress used for when installed locally on a Windows machine? Is that just a test environment?
I searched for this and didn’t find anything, but by scrounging through the code I found the necessary functions to make it work. I long for the day when the tags/functions in bbpress are documented like they are in WP.
At any rate, I don’t really care for the “Title” line under a post author’s name, and I wanted to replace it with a simple link to the post author’s profile instead. The code I used was:
<a href="<?php bb_option('uri'); ?>profile.php?id=<?php echo (get_post_author_id()); ?>">View Profile</a>
I added this in post.php, where the <?php post_author_title(); ?> line had been inside the threadauthor div.
I’m so proud of myself, I think I’ll go have a snack!
Installing bbpress to replace phpBB. Got through everything, using the same database as WP, can access the database, WP, Coppermine — everything with my username. It’s correct in config.php. When I enter the username (I get no dropdown), it tells me:
“Username not found. Go back and try again.”
I’m no slouch at PHP, and I’ve tried everything.
Ideas?
Just a note, and it would be nice if this was FIXED in core soon please! I currently just did a fresh install of the TRUNK on localhost, and have the same problem as Kirkk here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/700?replies=36#post-4849
Stylesheet URL is this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://localhostforum/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css" type="text/css" />
That plugin Trent posted is applied, and is NOT working… Please, fix this issue soon guys.. And by the way, no, my localhost copy of the forums are still borked.. >_<
And course! My config.php file settings are right.. I’ve done this numerous of times before.. wheee! Even used the original config.php file from before, when it was installed before and working.. she still borked regardless sigh..
spencerp
