[michael3185]

I’ve tried installing bbPress 0.9.0.4 twice now, and with the same results both times. It installs, runs, lets me into the ACP to change things, etc. I add nothing more than a topic and a post, and get this for every link I select;

Not Found

The requested URL /topic/welcome-to-the-forum was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

It’s all in the DB, so what’s happening? Any help appreciated before I go mad (have tried 5 BB packages in 3 weeks trying to meet my users requirements).

[edit]

Aha! Found a post elsewhere about changing Pretty Permalinks, and that was what wrecked it. Should perhaps have some sort of internal test when you click the dropdown list..?

[Elias]

Oh, I checked my webserver’s log and found that my rather obsolete German translation is still downloaded frequently. So I decided to rework it for the latest stable bbPress 0.9.0.4.

You can download my language file on my German blog.

And now for the folks that understand German better than English:

Oha, ich habe einen Blick in die Logdateien meines Webservers geworfen und musste dabei feststellen, dass meine ziemlich veraltete deutsche Übersetzung immer noch häufig heruntergeladen wird. Deshalb habe ich meine Übersetzung für die aktuelle stabile Version 0.9.0.4 von bbPress überarbeitet.

Wer mag, kann meine Sprachdatei in meinem kleinen Blog herunterladen…

[citizenkeith]

Here are the working plugins that I’m using with RC1:

• Allow Images 0.7.1
• bb-chunk 0.1
• BBcode Buttons Toolbar 0.0.9
• BBcode Lite 1.0.3
• bbPress signatures 0.2.0
• bbPress Smilies 0.0.8
• bb Topic Views 1.6.4
• BBVideo 0.24
• Censor 0.1
• Change Number of Front Page Topics 0.1
• Check For Updates 0.0.2
• Hidden Forums 0.0.8
• Human Test for bbPress 0.9.1
• Move It 0.14
• Post Count Plus – Dynamic.Titles & More! 1.1.11
• Quote 0.2 with add-ons by fel64
• Simple Onlinelist 1.5
• Strike 0.1
• Unread Topics 0.4
• Wiki Post 0.1.5

Plugins that AREN’T working:

• Admin add user 1.3
• Approve User Registration 0.3

[deadlyhifi]

Working Plugins:

• Human Test for bbPress 0.9.1
• Report Post 0.1.4
• Super Search 0.0.3
• C*nsor 0.1
• bbPress Smilies 0.0.7
• BBcode Lite 1.0.3
• BBcode Buttons Toolbar 0.0.9
• Allow Images 0.7.1

[johnhiler]

When my users click the same link while signed out, they get sent to a similar link:

http://boards.weddingbee.com/bb-login.php?re=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.weddingbee.com%2F%3Fnew%3D1

So it looks like bbPress is sending users to the right place. So I played around with your URL a bit:

http://www.endsofearth.com/forum/bb-login.php?re=http://www.endsofearth.com/

That didn’t work either, so I stripped off the re= part completely:

http://www.endsofearth.com/forum/bb-login.php

That worked… suggesting that the problem is with the re= part and your htaccess file.

Just when I was feeling clever, I did a quick Google search and ck had already figured it all out:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/latest-discussions-add-new-link-problem-if-not-logged

Maybe try disabling MultiViews or checking your htaccess file?

[Erunafailaro]

Same problem here. There are no mismatches between my manually set cookie paths. However, is there a list of all cookie paths that could be set?

All I did was upgrading to RC1. Before that, with the latest alpha-release, this problem did not occur.

I am using WP 2.7.1 (not WPMU).

[_ck_]

Here is an untested variation of Mark’s WP plugin for bbPress, it’s a little more sophisticated in that it tries to return the person back to the topic they were in if it exists or if they were starting a topic, to the forum they were posting in.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Moderation Notification

Author: _ck_

*/



add_action( 'bb_post.php', 'moderation_notification', 999);

add_action( 'bb_head', 'moderation_notification_alert', 999);



function moderation_notification($post_id) {

if (empty($post_id)) {return;}	 //   invalid post

$post = bb_get_post($post_id);

if ($post->post_status==0) {return;} 	//  not moderated



if ($post->post_position>1) {

$link = get_topic_last_post_link($post->topic_id);	// return them to the last known good post in the topic

} else {

$link = get_forum_link($post->forum_id);		// return them to the forum that they posted in since there's no valid topic yet

}



$link=add_query_arg('moderated','true',$link); 		// set the flag



wp_redirect($link);

exit;

}



function moderation_notification_alert() {

if (!isset($_GET['moderated'])) {return;}

$out = <<<EOF

<script type="text/javascript">

<!--

alert ("You post was successfully processed, \n\n however it was placed on hold and will appear once a moderator verifies that it is not spam.\n\n Please be patient and do not resubmit your comment.");

//-->

</script>

EOF;

echo $out;

}



?>

You can see the notice by putting ?moderated=true on one of your urls

I don’t recommend trying to purposely cause spam to test it because akismet might flag you globally as a spammer and you’ll end up being bozo’ed across multiple forums/blogs.

[doublebuser]

Everything matches, everything is UTF8 (since I am running a Russian site). All headers and meta show utf8. The DB is all UTF8…

Could you tell me what function reads users from WP db? I would follow from there.

Example: http://www.ourtx.com/ourtx/forum/topic/43

DB is WP 2.7.1 all UTF8_general_ci where it concerns text fields

Plus, I have a chron job that gets latest posts and prints them on the left side of the website, it gets that user name in Cyrillic just fine.

[Clicknathan]

Today I installed the bbPress Attachments plugin, which seems to work well.

But then I tried to delete a topic, got a PHP header already sent error, and when I returned to the Front Page, in the Forums and Latest Discussions tables I no longer have the Topics & Posts counts in the Forums table, nor do I have the Posts, Last Poster and Freshness columns in the Latest Discussions.

I’m running .9.0.3.

Anyone have any ideas what might have happened and/or how I could resolve this?

[Ivaylo Draganov]

a wiki-plugin already exists:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wiki-post/

a revision tracking plugin also:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/edit-history/

But it seems like it does much more than we basically desire.

I just tested the Edit History plugin and it does indeed track all that data – last edit, last editor and number of edits. But it does not output the message in the normal topic view. Instead it uses a separate page with all the revisions of a post. And that page is not visible to everyone.

I guess it is not hard to add that feature to the plugin. Wish I had the programming skills to do it!

[bisonback]

Installation seemed to go perfectly. The forum was completely operable and Test Users registering through bbpress were created on the WP side. Unfortunately, I received errors trying to log into WP backend. Calling “myurl.com/wp-admin” resulted in a blank page with:

“Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/user/public_html/sitefolder/wp-config.php:80) in /home/user/public_html/sitefolder/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850”

In order to finally get back into my admin panel

I deleted all BB_tables from db – didn’t work.

Deleted all bbpress files – didn’t work.

Refreshed wp-includes folder and root wp files – worked.

Now I’m back to a WP site with no forum tables or software and will try again after work.

Any ideas what’s going on here?

[Sam Bauers]

For anyone having problems with WPMU integration with bbPress, make sure you have the latest (1.0-alpha-6) version of the bbPress Integration plugin.

This newer version of the plugin is compatible with bbPress 1.0-rc-1 and should give you better advice about what to manually insert into your WPMU wp-config.php

[doublebuser]

One of the users has set in WP a nickname in Cyrillic (which reads in place of the username in latin). In WP it shows up fine, however, when that user info read by BB it is displayed as ??????????. My guess is that it read from db utf8 but then it goes through single byte string function that kinda kills it. Any other parts of the posts, topics, body and such are read and displayed fine in Cyrillic. Thus it is my understanding that the user name gets de-utf8 somewhere in the process of maybe checking for its validity or something else.

The $collation_query is “SET NAMES ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘utf8_general_ci'” in class.bpdb.php

Any idea where to start looking? I have what was the latest alpha.

What function reads users from WP db?

[Sam Bauers]

Try the latest 1.0 release (1.0-rc-1). There was a bug in the way orphaned users got their roles applied. If you upgrade, then re-save the role map in the admin, it might fix your problems.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Cool. Upgrade went easy. Shared login with WP 2.7.1 works. Now to test…

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I’m using Allow Images on 1.0a6(trunk from last month) and it seems to still be working. But I’m not using the bbCode plugin so people just put in <img src="http://mylink.com/image.jpg" />

I just tested now and it’s working okay.

[chrishajer]

That might be an interesting discussion, but for another forum. We’re not going to change that here. Maybe try the wp-hackers maling list?

Or, there is some pretty good info here on why NOT to do it:

http://us3.php.net/function.mysql-pconnect

[doublebuser]

Thanks, why in BB and WP no one is using _pconnection ? Would it not be better than _connection?

[chrishajer]

I don’t have the latest beta installed, but I do have an Alpha 2 installation and the database connection is here:

./bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php:123:

$this->dbh = mysql_connect($host, $user, $password, true);

[doublebuser]

Trying to locate the file that has the routine that does msql_connect or _pconnect…

[lakelady]

I’m attempting to install bbPress on a completely fresh site, latest WPmu and bbPress and have php5 and I’m getting the same message.

please help!

site http://twilighttearoom.com

intstall http://twilighttearoom.com/forum

[_ck_]

It would be possible to do that via a plugin.

this might work, untested:

add_action('bb_head','close_long_topics');

function close_long_topics() {

global $topic;

if (is_topic() && $topic->topic_open===1 && $topic->topic_posts>299) {

bb_close_topic($topic->topic_id);

$topic->topic_open=0;

}

}

[_ck_]

bbPress 1.0 rc1 will be announced shortly,

aka 1.0 alpha 7, Sam has decided to jump the beta test phase.

I don’t want people to use 1.0 on live sites because you can never go back to 0.9 once you upgrade. There is always an upgrade path, there is no downgrade. It is very tedious for plugin developers to keep up with radical changes in the alpha development, bbPress 1.0 is a different creature internally than 0.9

You can read more about my reasons here.

[aquagrrl]

Okay, I’ve managed to figure some of it out, I’m using:

<br />

<pre><code><?php $posts = get_thread( $topic->topic_id, $page ); //pulls posts fo each topic?>

<li <?php topic_class(); ?> style="border: 1px solid green;">

<?php foreach ($posts as $bb_post) : $del_class = post_del_class(); ?>

<ul class="TopicStarterInfo">

<li><?php post_author_avatar(); ?></li>

<li><?php post_author_link(); ?></li>

<li><?php post_author_title(); ?>

<li><?php printf( __('Posted %s ago'), bb_get_post_time() ); ?> </li>

<li><?php echo $bb_post->forum_id;?></li>

</ul>

<?php endforeach; ?>

But its pulling all the post authors. I think I need to limit to the first one, but I’m not exactly sure how to do that.

Edit: figured it out from: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/separating-the-first-post-of-each-topic#post-21808

using:

<?php $bb_post = $posts[0]; unset($posts[0]); $del_class = post_del_class();?>

instead of the foreach.

[lookfab]

Today I did the reverse integration of an existing WordPress blog (2.7.1) and BBPress forum (0.9.4). I described my plans here. With some help from bobbyh and a lot of digging into these forums, things worked out well.

Here are the steps (all but the final 2 are database operations, which I did using phpMyAdmin):

1. I didn’t need to do backups because I was using a test site, but if you are trying this, don’t go any further without full backups of everything.
2. Copied the “bb_users” and “bb_usermeta” tables from the BBPress database to the WordPress database. I was a bit worried that the row sizes weren’t exactly the same in the destination copy, but as it turns out, that wasn’t an issue.
3. Added a “user_activation_key” field to the copy of “bb_users” to ensure that the schema matched my current “wp-users” table in the WordPress database.
4. Renamed the “wp_users” and “wp_usermeta” tables to “wp_users_old” and “wp_usermeta_old” respectively.
5. Renamed the new “bb_users” and “bb_usermeta” tables to “wp_users” and “wp_usermeta” respectively.
6. Added WordPress admin rights and metadata to the new admin user. To do this I ran the following query:
   

   INSERT INTO wp_usermeta (user_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES (‘1’, ‘wp_capabilities’, ‘a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}’);

7. Added WordPress user metadata for the rest of the users (since I’m using the BBPress user tables as the starting point they know nothing about WP capabilities). Here is the query:
   

   INSERT INTO wp_usermeta (user_id, meta_key, meta_value) SELECT user_id, ‘wp_capabilities’ AS meta_key, ‘a:1:{s:10:”subscriber”;b:1;}’ AS meta_value from wp_usermeta WHERE user_id NOT IN (SELECT user_id from wp_usermeta WHERE meta_key = ‘wp_capabilities’) GROUP BY user_id;

8. Changed the user_id references in the “wp_posts” and “wp_comments” tables so that they pointed to the correct users (you need to do this because equivalent users don’t necessarily have the same ID in the previously separate WordPress and BBPress databases). Here are the queries I ran:
   

   UPDATE wp_posts SET post_author=NEW_ID WHERE post_author = OLD_ID

   UPDATE wp_comments SET user_id=NEW_ID WHERE user_id = OLD_ID

   NOTE that you need to think carefully about the order in which you do these changes. You don’t want to change a user’s ID to one that already exists in the WordPress table.

9. Installed superann’s plugin to downgrade WP 2.7.1’s cookie handling for compatibility with BBP 0.9.4: http://superann.com/2009/02/26/wordpress-26-27-bbpress-09-cookie-integration-plugin/
10. Told BBPress to find its user data in the new WordPress user tables. This is done in the BBPress admin page for WordPress integration: […]/bb-admin/options-wordpress.php. You need to follow the instructions carefully. In particular, note that the WordPress database secret should be copied from the current WordPress setting and not vice versa.

Some other notes:

• This is not something to do in a rush. I checked the results of each step carefully before moving on. This included browsing the database and, later in the process, logging in to the blog and forum to check whether things were working as expected.
• This worked for me. Your mileage may vary.