I think the usual problem is because it sets a cookie for the wrong domain. Are you running a local copy on xampp or the like? You will need to add this to your config.php if you are.
$bb->cookiedomain = '';
$bb->cookiepath = '/forums/';
Cookiedomain should be blank, and cookiepath should obviously be the folder your forums are in (so you should change that value).
Your HTML has improved. This is your current structure of major div elements:
div id="wrap"
div header [1]
div header [2]
div wrap [x]
div right
div sidebar
div content
div hottags
div discussions
div footer
You have two div elements with id wrap. IDs should always be unique, and the second one, marked with [x], is empty anyway so you can go ahead and delete it. You also have duplicate headers. The content of header [2] should be the only thing in header [1]. Div sidebar should be at the same level as div header is, not a child element. You can also delete the div right, as it’s kind of pointless.
Div footer should not be in content. It should be on the same level, not as a child. That should fix some problems with it, too. You can take out both float: left; and display: inline; in the CSS file for div content – they seem to cancel each other out, and floating it is unnecessary anyway and could come back to bite you later.
Your main problems in IE seem to be (seem, I don’t have dev tools for it) that major wrap is not centered and that content is just wide enough to conflict with sidebar. Slowly decrement the width of content and test if that makes it work. I am surprised it’s not centered in IE7, I’m fairly sure that the CSS margin: 0 auto; worked. However, to center it in IE6, you need to add the text-align: center; property to the wrap element (in CSS). To counter the effect this has on text, you need to add text-align: left; to header, sidebar and content.
When logged in, the div class post at the very bottom of the sidebar is not closed. You can just get rid of it I think. You are also using li elements for your Private Message Manager and Community Forum links, without actually having opened a ul or ol for them, which would probably cause problems so just remove the li tags.
That’s a start, anyway. Try it and we’ll see if it’s fixed anything.
It seems to have been played around with in the past, the upshot being that code is overflow: auto. Good solution in my opinion, much more convenient for reading code, anyway.
//a really reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally long line of code
some random text
//a kinda short line of code
Same Problem with me – No luck at all. i am using both FF and IE. 
I tried everything about this issue and still i can not log in. dunno what the problem is. it does not show anything – if i try to login – it puts me back to then login page. Need help pls.
I am sorry if this has already been posted, but I seem to not be able to find the exact answer to my question.
Question: I want to make my bbPress forum completely private so that no one can see the post of anything like that UNLESS that register AND I also want it so that I have to approve a user before they can view and use the forum. So that everything displayed on the forum if completely private.
Answer: I have the answer to the first question (http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/34?replies=1) but I need the answer to the second and I want to make sure that is will work with making the forum complete private (the first question).
Thank you. 
In the bbPress forums stylesheet (in the custom theme for bbPress.org, not the default theme), you have this:
.post {
overflow: hidden;
}
Can I request that you change the value to auto, to make it heaps easier to read users’ code postings (as they frequently overflow)?
.post {
overflow: auto;
}
#1: There are no style rules to tell the forum to go into the column. It’s just made of unstyled divs inside the body element. I don’t know how comfortable you are with HTML, but they should go inside the div with id wrap. That would really fix the greatest issue. You don’t need CSS to do that, since the wrap element would already do that (and the forum could actually be next to the sidebar).
#2: Please create a test account for us to see the HTML that’s causing a problem, or log in and copy the HTML to a pastebin and link to it here. My clue would be that there’s something wrong with the HTML, by the way. Is this an IE7 exclusive problem?
Exactly the same problem? You’re hosted at GoDaddy, and IE will not download rewrite-rules.php? For this problem there is no guide, but it can probably be solved without an expensive programmer
Saboy, have you tried getting around the IE problem by using a plugin that adds a menu page to bb-admin and includeing rewrite-rules.php to output the code there instead? Worth a try.
If they are, install this plugin, mark yourself and anyone else as 0 in the bozo field and update the profiles. That should fix it.
I know its been asked. Yes I have searched. Have everything integrated besides the positioning.
mysoberlife.com/forums/
Problem 1: My forum loads on the left of the screen, below sidebar and above the header.
Tried changing the position of the get_header to the end of the files in bbpress, that only created sidebar problems.
Am I missing something simple? I assume that I need to modify the CSS file for displaying the content to make it reference the correct location. I tried using an absolute tag but that creates problems for people with different screen sizes. Any recommendations on the CSS code to use?
Anyone have an idea of what to do? I’m loading the sidebar at the beginning instead of the end of bbpress php files.
By the way I’m having the config for bbpress call the wp-get-header. Inserted the relevant bbpress styling into my wpmu themes stylesheet.
Problem 2: On IE 7 part of my sidebar loads in the area where I want the forum to go. I believe it thinks that the sidebar is ending, some div work fixed it for the wpmu part of the site.
I have a login form that loads different information (control panel) once a user logs in. the problem only occurs when a user is logged in. If anyone has a clue I’d appreciate it.
Thanks
-Matt
Make sure you aren’t inserting the html inside a block of PHP. Can you post the code here for better analysis?
Per the readme, the template’s search.php must be modified to show post results. How, it doesn’t quite say, though I suspect that if I actually looked at search.php it’d be fairly obvious. 
Yeah, when I looked at the source code I noticed that "‘s were being used instead of "‘s only on the checkbox and value attributes.
Don’t worry about it
My template-functions might be different, but at a guess that fixes the HTML for people to checkbox if a user is a bozo or not? Problem was that different quotation marks were being used inconsistently, right?
I don’t know if people are still having this problem, but the same thing happened to me and I used a simple hack to fix it. So for anyone who wants a solution, here goes:
Open the ‘bb-includes/template-functions.php’ file
Go to line 1228 where it reads: echo attribute_escape( $label[2] );
Replace it with: echo str_replace('"','"',attribute_escape( $label[2] ));
The problem I found was that it was using "‘s instead of “‘s for some unexplainable reason, so I just used a simple str_replace() function to solve the problem. I hope this helps some people, I know the last post was 3 months ago.
Downloads:
.po: http://rapidshare.com/files/34134310/zh_CN.po
.mo: http://rapidshare.com/files/34134331/zh_CN.mo
Place zh_CN.mo into bb-includes/languages directory (you may have to create the languages directory yourself), and edit define('BBLANG', ''); to define('BBLANG', 'zh_CN'); in config.php.
Ha, that was too simple! It’s the akismet.php file but no error code. The server alaways has returned an error code in the past, just not on this.
Thanks!
I assume there were files containing code in the my-plugins folder? There is probably some PHP error being triggered. Most production servers write this error to a log instead of displaying it in the browser and then cease execution of the PHP script.
You need to locate and read this log to begin to troubleshoot.
If there are multiple files in your my-plugins folder, then try uploading them one by one until the error occurs. That way you will know which file is broken.
No guarantees about this one….
Add this to an .htaccess file in the base of your bbPress installlation.
You will need to modify where specified.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase <<Insert real path to your installation>>
RewriteRule ^about([0-9]+).html(.*)$ <<Insert real path to your installation>>topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum-([0-9]+).html(.*)$ <<Insert real path to your installation>>forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
Asking for paid support in a support forum is a no-no. I can suggest that you leave your contact information and then I can close the thread and/or drop a line over at the paid support list at:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists#Professional
I know that is WP list, but there are people that might help there as well.
Trent
Hi guys,
“Small” problem: when I try to activate Vili’s plugin in my WordPress plugin admin pannel, I get the following message:
“The plugin could not be activated for it’s causing a fatal error.”
:'( Any clue what the problem might be?
I’m using Wordpres 2.2 and BBpress 0.8.1, French install.
I didn’t change anything in Vili’s PHP, but maybe I should have?
I’m not programmer, so please help me Thank you so much in advance!
Ya I’m having the same problem. Seems there’s no logic that says:
If (post is not from member)
then pass post to spam rules
else always accept
Either that or it’s broken.
Perhaps you should name this the “bbPress 0.8.1 Tuneup Plugin” in line with Mark Jaquith.
