[bforeste]

Just when I was ready to throw in the towel for the weekend!

I just attempted to do a perfectly clean upgrade: still getting the db connection issue after bb upgrade tells me I need to upgrade my DB. These are my only instructions: https://bbpress.org/documentation/upgrading/

Chris – I do have a solid / tested 0.9 backup. That’s where I was headed before checking the boards one last time. I’m installing this on a test sub-domain of my production website – so no LAMP. I use the Media Temple Grid Server (poor man’s server) and have scoured the other Media Temple quirkiness posts here. I tried hard-coding the db host https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mysql_connect-cant-connect-through-socket with no luck.

Regarding the 0.9 bb-config…I did find some remnants of a WP integration attempt (keys and whatnot). But, because my 1.0.2 upgrade ‘overlays’ the old bb-config – I’m starting with a new, clean (non integrated) bb-config doc. My problem is that, I can’t get to Step #2 of the install – that’s where I hit the db connection issue every time.

I’ve gone through the bb-config doc, and the DB host / user / pw settings a million times. I’ve updated all my schemas to UTF8 and the UTF8 charset – and I’m applying those config settings into my bb-config. Nothing works.

I’d like to blast my tables too…but that feels pretty invasive to me. A real test of my backup / recover abilities. I may not have the legs to get it done today.

Thanks as always for any help.

[chrishajer]

You can get a zipped version here:

https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/2401/trunk?old_path=%2F&format=zip

Or you can check out the latest via subversion:

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/ .

Either of those two methods will get you the latest trunk (development) version.

[kajrietberg]

I downloaded the latest stable version right here. And I didn’t do anything about it, only changed the name of the folder bbPress to forum.

Do you mean themes and plugins for WordPress or bbPress?

[hydroweb]

Where do we find latest dev version for those of us on localhosts?

[chrishajer]

I don’t recommend editing core bbPress files. This is fixed in the latest development version already as well.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

forums will be within groups and not site wide in BuddyPress’s latest version

[chandersbs]

@BerryReview I’d love to use that plugin if available, I don’t mind editing the codes at all.

I tested your page with this website http://iphonetester.com/ and it’s looking good.

Good work, man!

[chrishajer]

I just tried including wp-load.php from another WordPress site on the same server, like this, and it worked just fine:

require_once('../../dev/wp-load.php');

Maybe our PHP or server configurations are different. But this worked fine and did not error out. I also tried just including a test.php file that I created in the same directory (the file is empty) and that works fine too. PHP doesn’t care what’s in that file (or if there is even anything in there at all), so long as there is no syntax error.

[chrishajer]

Can you try to require_once some other random file in the same directory as wp-load.php? Just create a file called test.php in the directory as wp-load.php and try requiring that without requiring the wp-load.php. If it does not error out, then you probably have the path right and the system is configured to allow this type of file inclusion.

Also, if anyone has access to php error logs, that will help pinpoint the problem. Or, you can temporarily display errors to the screen, or create a custom logging. The blank screen tells you there IS a problem, but not WHAT the problem is. We’re just guessing without knowing the actual error.

[bforeste]

Upgrading bbpress from 0.9.0.2 to 1.0.2

I also have WP installed, same DB & standard table prefixes (bb_ and wp_)

This is my test site, so I don’t have ‘active’ WP / BB integration

I’m on Media Temple Grid Server

DB Server is version 5.1.26-rc-5.1.26rc

MySQL Client is 4.1.11

When I followed the instructions on Upgrading, I mistakenly went to ‘install.php’ instead of ‘upgrade.php’. I don’t think this was a big deal though, because I wiped out the install directory and tried a ‘clean’ upgrade – with the same results.

I get all the way through to step 3, and I receive a ‘minor’ error that my Database is out of date & needs upgraded. I click ‘okay’ to upgrade…and I receive this error:

ERROR: Could not establish a database connection

I have gone through my wp-config and my new (and backed up versions of) the bb-config docs, and all are pointing to the correct db server, host, username, password, etc.

When I did the first install – it actually presented me with my main ‘forums’ page (I knew it was upgraded, because of the new theme). My posts were there. When I tried logging into the ‘admin’ area of bbPress, I got the ERROR: Could not establish a database connection reply again.

What am I missing? Is the ‘initial’ mistake of running the ‘install’ versus ‘upgrade’ script my downfall? How can I recover?

many thanks

bforeste

[Moominmama]

I am running WPMU 2.9.2 with BuddyPress 1.2.1

When I post to a group forum I get a 404. If I hit the back arrow on my browser and then hit refresh, then the post is listed there.

If I click the title of the post, I get “There are no posts for this topic.”

http://supportforspecialneeds.com/groups/arizona/forum/topic/testing-yet-again/

(You can see even by that url that there IS a post.)

I didn’t install this BuddyPress install but I did upgrade it from the BP version just before this one and I’m thinking maybe something got lost in the translation?

I’ve asked on the BuddyPress site and haven’t heard back yet so I’m checking here to see if it’s exclusively a BBPress issue.

Thank you!!

Dawn

[johnhiler]

I emailed you!

If you send it over, I’d be happy to diff the latest code to yours and post details on what code changed…

Thanks!!

[kevinator]

So even though it gives me this error, “Private Messages” still shows up as an option in bbPress forums, even though I have deactivated the plugin.

So, what the heck, let’s try to send a PM. First, no user list, so I’m guessing I’ll just type the user’s name and see if it works. Test message took me to the following URL:

http://www.cwnp.com/bbpress/my-plugins/my-plugins/pm.php

So I’ve put the entire contents of bbPM plugin into bbpress/my-plugins but it’s trying to operate pm.php from my-plugins/my-plugins.

Not to mention that bbPM shows up in both “Active” and “Inactive” plugin lists. DOH!

Help?

[paulhawke]

I wrote a plugin recently called “freshness” that filters the list of recent topics to only show the ones newer than a particular date/time. Filtering the list to only show topics from a given list of forums wouldnt be too bad. If there isnt already a plugin to do this, I’d be happy to write you one that would.

[bbuser12345]

I have one particular forum for which I would like the threads in that forum to NOT appear in the latest discussions list. Is there a small bit of code I can add to do this. I would also love it if there was an additional column that indicated the forum that the thread listed in “Latest Discussions” came from.

[xananax]

Ok, thanks to your idea, I’ve got it working. I quickly slapped together a theme that names the forums “categories” and uses the “latest topics” as the main view. It’s a very awkward theme, the CSS is crap, there is repeated code here and there but it is just a proof of concept. I’ll work more on it later.

You can get it here:

http://www.yelostudio.com/dump/yelobbpress.zip

[xananax]

Hello. I am lost; I’ve been scouring the internets for a few days to no avail.

I thought what I was looking for should be quite easy, but I can’t find it.

What I need is a forum-less forum, where all topics would be displayed according to date (kind of like the view inside a forum, or the “latest topics” in bbpress), with tags and/or categories for easy search.

All the forums I find are multiple-forums by default. I can’t find one that allows me, if I set a single forum, to display the topics only.

What would be even more ideal is a forum that doesn’t make a difference between a topic, a post, and a forum. Anything could be replied to, and nested, to infinity. But I guess this really doesn’t exist.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[johnhiler]

I’m not clear on how buddyPress’s progress impacts the bbPress project? I use bbPress for its message boards functionality, and don’t really want all the social functionality of buddyPress. So whether or not they use the latest bbPress doesn’t really affect me.

From what I understand, bbPress is moving in the same direction as buddyPress – it is becoming a WordPress plugin and will use the same theme as WordPress. So in that sense, buddyPress’ efforts here are a proof-of-concept for bbPress’ path?

Trying to understand how this development means any of us are wasting our time here!

[thelobbyist]

Just doing some searching and see that RSS feeds for forums were broken. I discovered this myself when I tried to load my forum feeds for my new site into Google Reader today and it couldn’t find the feed. I have updated my code with the patch update and feed validator says my feed is fine, but it still won’t load in Google Reader.

From what I’ve read on the forums there was a wide spread problem, but I can’t seem to locate if there was ever a definite solution. I am running the latest WP with BBpress 1.0.2 with deep integration.

Anything I can do to fix this? RSS feeds for my forums are pretty vital because this particular site won’t have posts, just pages for research content, and forums for feedback and discussion.

Thanks

[johnhiler]

Let us know how the test goes!

[alanna.scott]

i am trouble shooting the forum search on a site im working on and wanted to try the same test here to see if i can replicated results… jit.window, thispatcher, etc, specificity, cycling.

[bbuser12345]

I am looking for something similar. I have one particular forum for which I would like the threads in that forum to NOT appear in the latest discussions list. Is there a small bit of code I can add to do this. I would also love it if there was an additional column that indicated the forum that the thread listed in “Latest Discussions” came from.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Morning lads and lasses,

I can’t replicate this problem with an existing/live website, but i may have some suggestions. From the time of the 0.9 to diffrent versions of WP (and SuperAnn and _ck_’s plugins), i’ve found i end up putting in a huge amount of data into my bb-config.php file, and then force everyone to login via wordpress (that way i know i’ve only got 1 point of failure).

If you can’t access the bb-admin admin area when being logged via wordpress try making sure these values are in your bb-config.php file.

define(‘BB_SECRET_KEY’, ‘bb_secret_key’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘auth_key’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘loggedinkey’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘authkey’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘secureauthkey’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘secureauthsalt’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘loggedinkey’);

define(‘BB_SECRET_KEY’, ‘secretkey’);

define(‘BB_SECRET_SALT’, ‘secretsalt’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘loggedinsalt’);

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.**********.com/’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.**********.com/’;

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wordpress_’;

$bb->user_bbdb_name = ‘**********’;

$bb->user_bbdb_user = ‘**********’;

$bb->user_bbdb_password = ‘**********’;

$bb->user_bbdb_host = ‘localhost’;

$bb->custom_user_table = ”;

$bb->custom_user_meta_table = ”;

$bb->authcookie = ‘wordpress_’;

$bb->cookiedomain = ”;

$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;

$bb->sitecookiepath = ”;

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wordpress_’;

$bb->WP_BB = true;

/* Stop editing */

I know this may sound daft, and i can’t pin point the technical reason for it, but with the combination of WP moving to a different security routine in WP2.7/2.8 and bbPress moving to BackPress i find that having that extra data in and predefined has solved 99% of my login issues.

I think, and those of you more technical than i am may debunk the idea, that bbPress does a “double dip” where it tests you as having a cookie on the front end and that the name is associated with a key master or admin, but then on the backend it actually checks your admin credentials against the WP database and cookie has and thats what fails (who do we thank for backPress??).

Sadly bbPress admin area (or any admin function) doesn’t give error messages, so the exact issue we won’t know unless you can run a profiler.

Give my additional code a try, and we’ll see if that makes a difference.

Kev

[Submachiner]

Is there any sort of plugin that prevents threads from appearing on the Latest Discussions area.

Lets say that one was to create a category and didn’t want any threads from that category appearing in the Latest Discussions area. Anyway to make this happen?

[r-a-y]

I’m going to try to answer the OP’s questions.

What is the advantage, of any, of having BBPress either instead of or in addition to BuddyPress?

Advantages of using bbPress – using bbPress plugins, forum categories and sub categories. If you want the traditional forum, go with bbPress.

BuddyPress’ internal bbPress relies on a concept called “groups” (similar to Facebook). You need to create a “group” in order to create a group forum. BP’s internal version of bbPress also uses a flat structure, you cannot categorize group forums into categories (as of now). Also, out of the box, you’ll need to port bbPress plugins to WP/BP in order to use them. Not many bbPress plugins have been ported to BP as of yet.

Advantages of using BuddyPress – template matches the rest of your site. Social networking in a box for WP (if you need it). Check out http://testbp.org/forums to view the forum layout.

Will (bbPress) now work with a straight WordPress install, or is it tied to WordPress MU at this point?

Works in both instances. bbPress integration plugin handles this fine.

(With the upcoming integration of WP and WPMU, at this juncture I simply don’t want to go through the hassle of installing MU.)

BuddyPress 1.2 is now supported by regular WP, so no need to install WPMU if you don’t need it.