[philgreen]

I set up bbpress at board.veryserious.org. It worked just fine for a few months but all of a sudden today it shows me blank page when I go to the board.

board.veryserious.org/register.php for example comes up just fine but board.veryserious.org/index.php appears to be blank (o kb). Has security been compromised somehow?

[ironbound]

Everything is working fine except the post and forum links. I can use the admin area perfectly. I can log in and out, and register new users fine.

However, I cannot access:

*View your profile

*Your first topic

*bbPress (under Hot Tags)

*Main forum under MAIN THEME (1st post)

* Topics with no replies

* Topics with no tags

Clicking any of the above brings me to a 404 error page

Please help me through this one. Thank you for your time and patience.

[janellers]

I do some more testing:

if i use the “bb_is_user_logged_in() )” Function on the entry site it returns false every time. but if I go to the register.php wich uses the same function for displaying the content it shows: “You’re already logged in, why do you need to register?”

If I now go back to the front page by clicking a link on the register page, bbPress recognize that I’am logged in. Due this process I never used the “Log in” Button of the Forum. I was justed logged in by my WP Site.

Another test:

If I login thru my bbPress site all works fine. But if i go back to my WP Site and return to the Forum I have to log in again…

[simon551]

Hi. Something strange just started occurring in my forum. I post a reply to a post and it shows me the reply and the background is yellow (this is new) and then I look at the forum and my post is registering in the number of posts counter, but not updating the “freshness” or moving the topic up the list. All of this is new. I tried logging out and then viewing the forum and my new post(s) are not registering at all.

any ideas?

[janellers]

I have three forums:

1: Forum One (Open to all)

2: Off Topic (Open to all)

3: Intern (Only for registered)

I tried it with other forum orders, or restriction roles, but nothing works.

These Options are set:

Hide Private Forums and Topics

Error Message: “%s – login”

Here you can see it: http://janellers.de/kj/forum/

[Trent Adams]

I am not 100% sure I am understanding. I have that exact plugin working on my forums and I have all the forums setup as “open to all” and just one forum (the last one) setup as “registered users only”. I have the checkbox to hide the forums checked.

Logged in users can see the forum and the topics of the private forum.

Non registered and non logged in users cannot see any of the topics in that forum or the forum itself.

You are saying that these users can see the forum, but not the topics? Have you set the options at the bottom to what to show members if they enter an area that they shouldn’t be?

Trent

[janellers]

Hi Trent,

thanks for your reply. I’am using this plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/private-forums/

The hide-option is checked, and tested in both themes. The unregistered user can only Enter the Forums flagged “open for all” but that is useless when they cant see them

Jan

[chrishajer]

I don’t believe register_globals and the glob() function are the same thing. If the glob function is disabled on your server, the administrator would have to re-enable it.

How about creating a bb-plugins folder in your forums directory, then putting a blank file called _dummy.php (that’s underscorewhatever.php) in that directory? It would look like this:

/forums/bb-plugins/_dummy.php

That would ensure the plugin directory is there, and that there is an underscore plugin there for this function to find. At least this part won’t fail any more.

BTW – it’s just a PHP warning, not an error.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/forums/bb-settings.php on line 294

You should be able to continue past it, despite the warning. Once you knock this one down, it’s on to the next one if you’re still unable to log in.

[saintmain]

“PHP – Register globals” = “glob”?

I can turn that on if it helps. did that ones, Ill try again.

I made a fresh installment using the trunk.. still cant log in

[saintmain]

Damnit, I was so looking forward to using bbpress. Im a big fan of wordpress, and I love that its so simple to mod. but there seems to be some problems with this board, and I can figure it out.

On the wery first page when installing, I get this messege;

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/bbpress/bb-settings.php on line 169

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/bbpress/config.php:1) in /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php on line 10

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/bbpress/config.php:1) in /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.php on line 1910

Im able to install just fine, but when I try to log in, I get this;

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/bbpress/bb-settings.php on line 169

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/bbpress/config.php:1) in /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 37

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/bbpress/config.php:1) in /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 37

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/bbpress/config.php:1) in /customers/cobain.dk/cobain.dk/httpd.www/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 164

Im lost when it comes to php, and its seems from this board, that there have been thiis problem for quite a wile, 6 month now. goodbuy bbpress, hello minibb??

The forum is located on http://www.cobain.dk/bbpress

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PHP5

The server has “PHP – Register globals” set to OFF

bbPress and WordPress have different table prefixes

bb_forums

bb_posts

bb_tagged

bb_tags

bb_topicmeta

bb_topics

bb_usermeta

bb_users

wp_comments

wp_links

wp_options

wp_postmeta

wp_posts

wp_terms

wp_term_relationships

wp_term_taxonomy

wp_usermeta

wp_users

[saintmain]

It is a standard installation, no language or mod.

I have installed WordPress on the same server but not in the same folder, is that a problem?

Im using PHP4, should I upgrade to PHP5 to make bbpress work?

The server has “PHP – Register globals” set to OFF.

*update. php5 is now installed on the server, still ampty site

[janellers]

Hi, iam Using bbPress with a WordPressinstallation. My WP install is in:

/blog/

and my bbPress in:

/blog/forum/

If I now log in in my WP with IE and go to the Forums all is fine. But if I do the same with FireFox I have to login again.

I’am using WordPress Plugin bbpress Integration and the WordPress Integration Plugin for bbPress. Did i made something wrong?

thanks,

Jan

Edit: If I’am logged in and go to the register.php with FireFox he mean that Iam already logged in… confusing…

Edit#2: If I log out in bbPress my Iam logged out in WP too…

[hitec7]

I installed your plugin _ck_ but i when i activated it din’t auto inserted the math field in my registration page. Strange so i did it my self by inserting in my register.php / bbpress theme file the function:

<?php human_registration_test(); ?>

and then it worked ok.

[janellers]

Hi,

iam using the Private Forums Plugin with bbPress in wich i created two Forums. The first one should be visible to all, unregisterd and registered members. The second one should be private. But if I want to set the Restriced Role from the second forum to “Registered Members” or higher, then the first forum didn’t appear to for all visitors who are under the Restriction Role setting. Do you have any ideas?

thanks,

Jan

[joseelsantos]

Hi there,

Anyone know how to register users using foreign characters, such as Å, Ä or Ö?

When users on my bbPress register, the name might be “mårten”, but will be added to database as “mrten” instead.

Tips anyone?

[_ck_]

So far this has solved the problem for me completely:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

I’ll augment it as they adapt.

[chrishajer]

With all those links in the posts, it appears that akismet is not working. Do you have an akismet ket and is it entered in your config.php? That would prevent the posts loaded with links, in any case.

Regarding the registrations, there is a “Human Test” plugin that might help:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/signupregistration-captcha#post-13429

Or, maybe something more complex like a CAPTCHA:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spam-registration#post-11879

Or this tip:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fight-against-auto-register-robot#post-12246

Just search this forum for registration and you’ll see lots of approaches to handling it.

[feastoffools]

Hi- We’ve been trying in desperation to stop spambots from registering profiles on our very active bbpress forums, and despite the captcha test we installed, it seems they are circumventing the registration process and creating new accounts all the time. We’re getting around 50 fake profiles a day.

We’re being told by several sources that this is a bug in the current version of bbpress and there is no solution for it. We simply can’t accept this, that bbpress would be open to such severe bugs.

Right now we’re manually deleting profiles and we’re seriously considering abandoning this plattform for a more secure foums solution that works with WordPress.

Do you have any insight into how to stop them from creating bogus profiles? Right now for some reason they are all having their birthday as Feb 2, 2008.

You can see some of the profiles here:

http://www.feastoffools.net/community/profile.php?id=2107

[_ck_]

http://pravin.insanitybegins.com/articles/running-bbpress-on-sourceforge

I also believe there is code on the WordPress side that uses 3rd party mailers like gmail or yahoo to send passwords. This could be easily adapted to bbPress as a plugin.

[chrishajer]

This thread is pretty old. I doubt master501 is coming back around. Maybe you should start a new thread and ask for help there.

[buchin]

#master501 I’ll waiting for your fix. I had the sme problem.

[t3ch33]

This is almost working for me. My bbpress was already active, so i didn’t want to run the modified install file. Here is the code that’s in the bb-admin/install.php file:

// Anonymous User

$now        = bb_current_time('mysql');

$bbdb->query("INSERT INTO $bbdb->users (user_login, user_registered)

VALUES ('anonymous', '$now')");

$bbdb->query("UPDATE $bbdb->users SET ID = '0' WHERE user_login = 'anonymous'");

bb_update_usermeta( '0', $bb_table_prefix . 'capabilities', array('anonymous' => true) );

Since my bbpress is already active, I have manually updated my users table by following the guideline in the above code. But, I have no idea what the last line of code means: bb_update_usermeta( '0', $bb_table_prefix . 'capabilities', array('anonymous' => true) );

Can you modify it so that I can manually update the db or do whatever needs to be done to make it work? Thanks.

[chrishajer]

I noticed that it depends on how much traffic the forum gets. If the forum has lots of activity, it gets indexed more quickly. It also seems to matter if you use the Google webmaster tools like the sitemap. I notice that soon after logging into the webmaster tools to check on *whatever*, Google crawls most of my sites.

I also see a direct correlation between how busy the forum is and how many spam registrations there are. More legitimate activity, more spammers register every day.

[lucaiz]

many thanks Chris! I have tested your second example (pluggable.php, row 361 etc.) was exactly what I needed!

I agree with you that a plugin would be nice, and also it would be even nicer to be able to set new users default role somewhere in the admin interface, but for the moment your suggestion just work.

thanks again!

[chrishajer]

The default role is set in bb-includes/capabilities.php around line 485

$user->set_role('member');

This is a job for a plugin, but I haven’t tried to write one yet, so if you were to change that word member to inactive, my guess would be that that would make any new member inactive and then the keymaster would need to edit their role to make them members.

ACTUALLY – that didn’t work

In bb-includes/pluggable.php, line 361 says this:

bb_update_usermeta( $user_id, $bb_table_prefix . 'capabilities', array('member' => true) );

I changed member to inactive there, and now new users are inactive when they first register.

Like I said, this is really a job for a plugin, but you could probably use this last change temporarily until a proper plugin is written.

HTH, and be warned this is not a good way of doing it. It should really be a plugin I think.