Wonder if it’s a server option then. Something do with character encoding?
I’ve found though that in these issues you can’t manual change the characters as it just reverts when you submit.
as per johnhiler’s advice; in those unique situations the solution was just to hard-code the end result.
There was a similar report here and we weren’t able to figure it out:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/add-new-goes-to-404-for-logged-out-users
We did narrow it down to most probably an htaccess issue. In the end, the user just hardcoded the Add New link… which actually worked pretty well.
I just tried in IE and have the same issue. Using IE8 but the characters after the .php? are not encoded, tried encoding them in the URL but no luck…
So when you click “Add New” and your not logged in your link generated appears as
http://domain.com/forum/bb-login.php?re=http://domain.com/forum/?new=1
?
Mine is similar however the characters after the .php? are encoded IE:
http://domain.com/forum/bb-login.php?re=http%3A%2F%2Fdomain.com%2Fforum%2F%3Fnew%3D1
Perhaps the fault is your site is generating the link correctly?
1. Create a directory on your server called my-plugins – create it on the same level as bb-plugins and bb-templates.
2. Put the unzipped plugin files into that directory.
3. Access the bbPress admin and activate the plugin.
Sadly, I think I was ignored over on WP forum site (perhaps I’m marked as a spammer there too?) 
I ended up using the “Page Links To” plug-in within wordpress to make the forum ‘page’ actually take people to the bbpress installation.
It looks naff right now since bbpress theme doesn’t match up with WP theme. I have yet to figure out how you get bbpress to appear in a frame below your site’s menu bar. I guess both themes need to match up?
Thanks again for your help.
~Andrew~
General Settings >Pretty permalink type>
Look at “If you activate “Numeric” or “Name based” permalinks, you will need to create a file at /PATH/TO/BBPRESS/.htaccess containing the url rewriting rules provided here”. The provided here is a clickable link that will get you the needed code that you will then paste into a .htaccess file that you create at the root of your bbpress directory.
Edit: Noticed that you got it. 
Thanks, Nightgunner5. I actually got the root password for the box and turned it off at the php.ini level. However it’s still not working. sambauers is there any info/log that will help me troubleshoot this? Thank You for your help.
Here is the info as listed by my info.php:
magic_quotes_gpc Off Off
magic_quotes_runtime Off Off
magic_quotes_sybase Off Off
With .htaccess, you’d need to use one of the two following commands:
#PHP4
php_value magic_quotes_gpc off
#PHP5
php_admin_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
Sure, I’d be glad to help rewrite and edit info on bbPress.org on a separate site – as well as contribute to a codex wiki.
But just to be clear: I’m not attempting to evangelize bbPress on Wikipedia. I think of Wikipedia as an fairly comprehensive encyclopedia, and as such it should have an article on software like bbPress. Some outside references would help on that front, which is where the impetus for this post came from.
Just let us know how we can help with the copy editing and codex writing, and I’d be glad to pitch in!
The deletion from Wikipedia was pretty random and I think a better structured and written page would probably survive. Interestingly the BuddyPress page has only one self-published reference.
I appreciate people’s desire to evangelize bbPress (thanks johnhiler) but I at least agree with kevinjohngallagher’s sentiments about putting the cart before the horse. If there is willingness to write something to promote bbPress, then how about we put some effort into our own site?
If anyone wants to have a go at comprehensive editing and/or rewriting any of the information on bbPress.org I’m happy to help with that process. I think this would be far more valuable to us.
So I guess I’d like to hijack the enthusiasm that some people are showing and direct it closer to home. I can easily create a sandboxed WordPress install that volunteer editors can use to re-work the existing content. Then once we are happy with it, we can migrate it over to the main site.
I also think that a “codex” wiki site for bbPress would be beneficial at this stage but I need some reassurance that it won’t just sit there empty either. So take this poll and we can see if there is traction for that to be created…
http://www.polldaddy.com/p/1650020/
Hello,
I’ve been running 0.9.4 for about six months now without major problems but today something happened. No new posts can be made and the following error displays:
bbPress database error: [Duplicate entry '7582' for key 1]
INSERT INTO bb_posts (<code>topic_id</code>,<code>post_text</code>,<code>post_time</code>,<code>poster_id</code>,<code>poster_ip</code>,<code>post_status</code>,<code>post_position</code>,<code>forum_id</code>) VALUES ('6','
test post text text text text
','2009-05-25 11:56:28','3','88.222.104.78','0','121','8')
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /path-to-bbpress/bb-includes/db-mysql.php:130) in /path-to-bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 232
New posts get registered in the latest-discussions list but the link to them is “#post-0” and they don’t display in the actual topic, nor in the admin panels. They actually don’t exist in the DB.
The last existing post in bb_posts is with post_id of 7581
Luckily I have a working backup before the error occurred but I want to know what might have caused it.
Hi, coud you please suggest how to display users’s email addres or nickname (display_name) instead of user login in page header? bbpress 0.9.0.4
thanks
One of the things BBpress does really well is putting the horse before the cart.
Given that we skipped the last alpha, wrote off all the grand plans that had been coded to for 1.0a7, entirely skipped the beta stages, and released an RC thats not exactly been put through its paces yet… maybe just maybe we should hold off on getting on Wikipedia until, i dunno, the software is ready?
Apache version 2.2.11 (Unix)
PHP version 5.2.9
MySQL version 5.0.77-community
Architecture i686
Operating system Linux
Kernel version 2.6.28.8-VISION
It isn’t our job to promote unfinished and undeveloped software.
What Automattic’s marketing staff think about missed “reliable souces”?
OK, OK I know – it’s not my job too
Problem is, where would you find a site that talks about new software? BLOGS!
Review sites are blogs essentially if you think about it
I mean, I don’t recall seeing phpBB in the news anytime recently..
While I have not reviewed Nightgunner’s code, that version is a completely rewrite so I suspect it avoids the pitfalls of the original version and is probably safe to use.
In your template file called front-page.php, find the section that outputs the table of forums (#forumlist) and make the cells taller or fixed width and variable height or something. It can all be done in your template files and your style.css.
Drag them into order in the admin area.
Yes, yes they can. You should NEVER have blank lines outside the wrapping <?php ... ?> (they cause all sorts of weirdness)
Good catch, magicgirl.
Never mind I figured it out.
<?php topic_posts($bb_post->topic_id); ?>
it seems i have no secure_auth_salt listed in options.php :S
@byles; ive replaced all security codes a few times
I’ve got the exact same problem, and it’s driving me mad.
I’ve tried to get this working on several fresh installs and it just ain’t happening!
Update: Oh! Fixed! I went to wp-admin/options.php and changed the salts to something else (button mashed), and updated those in bbpress too, and now it works. Don’t quite understand why nobody mentions this in any of the tutorials… Never mind
Yes, you should create a page with the same name as the directory where you installed bbPress. So, if you installed bbPress in a directory called /forums/ create a page called “Forums” with a slug of “forums” and WordPress will use that directory before it ever shows your blank page.
If that does NOT work, there are simple plugins to redirect any WordPress Page to a URL, so you could use one of those if you wanted to do that instead.
