[Deadpan110]

Im not sure if I have set my bbPress 1.0.alpha2 to work with WordPress MU 2.6.3 correctly, but its working.

http://domain.com = my WordPress MU

http://forums.domain.com = bbPress sub domain

As you can probably see, there are things within the config files that might not be needed.

WordPress/wp-config.php

define('AUTH_KEY', 'authkey');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'secureauthkey');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'secureauthsalt');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'loggedinkey');

define('SECRET_KEY', 'secretkey');

define('SECRET_SALT', 'secretsalt');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'loggedinsalt');

I copied and pasted the existing lines straight into bb-config.php replacing what was already there and then added the BB_ to each.

bbPress/bb-config.php

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');

In BOTH bb-config.php AND wp-config I added:

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.domain.com'); // remember the '.' prefix

define('COOKIEPATH', ''); // this is empty

Then I visited http://forums.domain.com/bb-admin/options-wordpress.php (Settings > WordPress Integration) and scrolled down to ‘Manual bbPress config file settings’ and copied all the text below ‘WordPress cookie integration speedup’ and pasted into bbPress/bb-config.php.

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://domain.com';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://domain.com';

$bb->cookiedomain = '.domain.com';

$bb->cookiepath = '';

$bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_LEFT_THIS_ALONE';

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_LEFT_THIS_ALONE';

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_'; // DELETE the hash part

$bb->admin_cookie_path = '/bb-admin';

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/bb-plugins';

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/my-plugins';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '';

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/wp-admin';

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/wp-content/plugins';

Oh, and I added the$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_'; too.

NOTE

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_';

The hash was removed and the line reads EXACTLY as above.

To test, just make sure you are logged out of both and then log in and visit your other site.

Final Note, as stated above – there is probably a lot of unneeded clutter in the bb-press config, but all works for me – no matter which domain I log into!

I hope this helps someone

[Sam Bauers]

@rensenieuwenhuis

Awesome to see bbPress Live in use.

The post to a forum stuff is coming really soon. It may require you to update bbPress to the latest Trunk though…

[thion]

http://forums.astateofmind.eu

Plugins:

– Human Test for bbPress

– Forums Moderators

– Allow Images

– bbSocialize

– bbPages

– bbPress Smilies

– bbFlickr

– Forum Last Poster

– BBPress Private Messaging

– BBcode Buttons Toolbar

– Private Forums

– bbPress signatures

– bbPress Polls

– BBcode Lite

Modifications: A lot! bbSocialize and bbPages plugins has been created specially for this website, there is a lot of conditional php tags (if, else, etc.), I’ve created a function to create a sidebar, and I’ve integrated some jQuery stuff, and more .

If I could only attract members as I’m coding things .

[Mark Thomas Gazel]

Thanks for the test.

Upgraded to Alpha and found out it was a plugin-error.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

So I was thinking about this in the shower, if I can get bbPress to set a cookie for / instead of /forum I think my woes would be over (See Step 2 above…)

Now, before looking into it further, I don’t think this is how it works. If the script calling for a cookie to be set is in folder ‘/forum/’ then the domain scope for that cookie is going to be set to ‘/forum/’ by the webserver.

But to test the obvious, I rushed to bb-config and tried variations on

// Cookie Scope

$bb->cookiedomain = '';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '/';

No joy.

Maybe if I had the wp-login code on the forum site…with bb-admin cookies… let me try some things…

The ‘/’ cookie to rule them all is the way to go. If I can just get it to work…

[Vietson]

Its my first time using bbPress and first time theming it. I must say, the easiest forum to theme I’ve ever come across.

I mimic WordPress (.com and .org) forums layout structure and color palette. Still working to iron out some css issue.

I wanted to update jquery to the current latest but it broke a few things. So I’m currently writing a plug-in that will hopefully update the jQuery and fixes the few broken items.

BBCode Lite,

BBCode Button

Allow Image

BB Smilies (maybe I should change this to something better)

BB Video

Askimet

TOS (Terms of Service)

Demo: http://idolsavenue.com/forums/

[kannued]

I did use web developer tool. The buffalo’s outer box is div class=”threadpost”. Then the next box which the picture sits in is div class=”post”. For the text only post, the outer box sits outside of the threadpost, inside the thread li.

I would be willing to email the link to the moderators or to yourself. But I’m not willing to post the link here for the test site.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

Until someone who know what they’re doing chimes in… you could use CSS Selectors (of your own making e.g. ‘foo’) to trap and apply styles to elements with the ‘foo’ attribute…

[foo]        -- Has an attribute named "foo"

[foo="bar"]  -- Has an attribute named "foo" with a value of "bar" ("bar")

[foo~="bar"] -- Value has the word "bar" in it somewhere ("blue bar stools")

[foo^="bar"] -- Value begins with "bar" ("barstool")

[foo$="bar"] -- Value ends with "bar" ("I was at the bar")

[foo*="bar"] -- Value has bar somewhere ("I was looking for barstools")

So I guess, if you had <img foo='inpost'... and

[foo ="inpost"] { background-color: transparent; max-width:100%;} that might work.

If you posted an actual link to the test site (or emailed it), folks could use FF web developer plugins etc to nail down the CSS tree for that theme…

I hope this helps.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

It’s like trying to open the wrapper on a new CD you’re dying to listen to…if I can just get it open without using a hammer…

This is a thread. There are many threads like this thread. This thread is my thread.

Follow the cookie path please. Visit with the config file settings. See the pattern and you will bend the spoon. Then let me eat ice-cream with that spoon, please.

Paths:



WP: http://mydomain.org/

bbPress: http://mydomain.org/forum/



Apache version	1.3.41 (Unix)

PHP version	5.2.5

MySQL version	5.0.51a-community

Architecture	i686

Operating system	Linux



#########################################

bb-config.php:

// URI’s

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://mydomain.org’; // No trailing slash

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://mydomain.org’;

// Cookie Scope

$bb->cookiedomain = ”;

$bb->cookiepath = ”;

$bb->sitecookiepath = ”;

$bb->admin_cookie_path = ‘/forum/bb-admin’;

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = ‘/forum/bb-plugins’;

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = ‘/forum/my-plugins’;

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = ‘/wp-admin’;

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = ‘/wp-content/plugins’;

// The name of the cookies

$bb->authcookie = ‘wordpress_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = ‘wordpress_sec_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

$bb->logged_in_cookie = ‘wordpress_logged_in_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘ahhpushit’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘pushpushit’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘realgood’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ‘andpepper’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘arehere’);

#########################################



wp-config.php:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘ahhpushit’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘pushpushit’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘realgood’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘andpepper’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘arehere’);

$wp->authcookie = ‘wordpress_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

$wp->secure_auth_cookie = ‘wordpress_sec_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

$wp->logged_in_cookie = ‘wordpress_logged_in_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

// bbPress WP integration

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ”);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ”);

#########################################



1)Clear all cookies



#########################################



2) Log into bbPress: (mydomain.org/forum/): role 'member':

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

#########################################



3) Visit WP site: (not logged in)

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

PHPSESSID => /

various 3rd party cookies from picasa etc



#########################################



4) Visit wp-login.php: (not logged in)

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

PHPSESSID => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

#########################################



5) Log into wp-login.php as 'subscriber' user (same user as bbPress) which puts me /wp-admin/

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

PHPSESSID => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

#########################################



6) 'Visit site' from wp-admin

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

PHPSESSID => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

#########################################



7) Click on '//mySite.org/forum' link on main site (bbPress install dir)

Forum's first page displays: No extra cookies made.  These cookies are from WP in the previous step:

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

PHPSESSID => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

#########################################



 Log out from bbPress:

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

STILL LOGGED INTO bbPress!



#########################################



9) Visit wp site

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



10) Logout from WP site: (wp-login.php?loggedout=true)

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



11) Visit forum site.



logged out.



#########################################

12) Clear all cookies



#########################################



13) Log into bbPress:

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

#########################################



14)Log out of bbPress:



All cookies cleared.



#########################################



15) Visit WP site + clear cookies.



#########################################



16) Log into WP

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



17) Visit bbPress site.



Already Logged in as wp user.

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



18) Logout from bbPress:

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

Still logged in to bbPress!



#########################################



19) Logout from main site:

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



20)  Eat stapler.

[hornymelon]

The test profile that I created cannot Reply to a comment or post a new topic. However they can post a comment in WordPress. Under the User tab in the Admin panel the profile is listed as having no role. When I update the users role, click save and return to Admin user tab they still have no role. In the bbpress/wordpress intergration tab All wordpress roles are marked as member (aside from admin). What is going on?

Also while user info is shared between the two you have to log onto wordpress and bbpress seperately. Also if you are logged on to bbpress it won’t let you log on to wordpress. You have to log ouut of bbpress first then you can log in to wordpress. How do I fix this?

[kannued]

I had the 404 too when I tested from the post. Then I wondered if there was a no follow. So I copied the link, then pasted it into a new window or tab. It worked then.

[chrishajer]

beernews: yes, that’s what pretty permalinks look like. Looks like the options in trunk are now:

None   …/forums.php?id=1

Numeric   …/forums/1

Name based   …/forums/first-forum

It used to be “none, true, slugs” which correspond to the above options in order. I’m not sure if they’re on by default when you install the latest version. There was talk of creating the mod_rewrite rules automatically when turning permalinks on (like WordPress does right now), but I’m not sure if that happens automatically or not yet.

But, with name based (the old slugs option) I think the links would be pretty good for SEO. The slugs might still contain stop words or otherwise be too long, but, they’re still pretty good.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

meitershaker – In theory, the principle that worked for Adding default Gravatars to WP 2.6 should work for bbPress.

Haven’t tested it yet.

[chrishajer]

Looks like the 503 error was coming from the mini-track plugin (I confirmed this by changing the message slightly to see if the message was being generated by Apache or this plugin.) So far, it looks OK, but it’s only been a day. More testing to follow.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

Just to be clear, guys: I’m working on a WP2.6.2 site, not the WPMu version…

@eagano: I hear you man. I did as you suggested and I made sure /wp-admin/options.php matched as well.

I’m using FF3 and the error console shows only warnings generated by the theme’s CSS (doesn’t like the asterisk in declarations: Kakumei 0.01 theta-beta by Bryan Veloso)

I’m not using Google Gears to cache anything.

@Ipstenu: I linked to the cookiefix in the first post. Now that you both pointed out that it’s a WPMu-specific fix I have removed it from the WP code. Did you mean a link to the test site?

I appreciate you looking into this.

Is there some sort of trace I can place on the submit button? A setting I can toggle to make it/something verbose?

Cheers.

[keress]

I’ve checked and double checked all the steps to coodinating wp-config.php with bb-config.php but no-go. I can only log into bbpress if I’ve already logged into wp, but even then it doesn’t let me into the admin.

One possible area of confusion, I couldn’t figure out how to get the .zip file that would display cookies to work. How is it supposed to be implemented?

I got the bookmark cookie check to work, but it gave a number of different sets of numbers.

/r__utmc=162181740

__utma=162181740.1942902695.1222437978.1224615332.1224620799.21

__utmz=162181740.1222437978.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)

__utmb=162181740

wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check

Which string is relevant?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I’m about this close to making my new forums live. I’ve got WP 2.6 and bbPress alpha tied in together pretty well, but they recently announced the lockdown on 2.7, which means that may come out by years end.

Has anyone started testing with 2.7 yet? I’m not asking if I should not go forward and get my forums started, just wanted to know what kettle of worms I was opening

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

eagano – I tested, and it works fine on both subdomain and folders.

But musnake, can you link to the cookiehash fix? I’m 99% sure it’s not needed for your install, so that may be causing weirdness.

[eagano]

musnake –

I think this must be a big source of the problem for MU and getting it to work with bbPress. And why some get integration to work (standalone) and other can’t (wpmu).

In the WP standalone install, it does indeed appear to be there (is that where you got the code above?).

In WPMU 2.6.2 (https://mu.wordpress.org/latest.zip) wp-settings.php, line 317:

// Used to guarantee unique hash cookies

$cookiehash = '';

/**

* Used to guarantee unique hash cookies

* @since 1.5

*/

define('COOKIEHASH', '' );



$wpdb->hide_errors();

if( defined( 'MUPLUGINDIR' ) == false )

define( 'MUPLUGINDIR', 'wp-content/mu-plugins' );



if( is_dir( ABSPATH . MUPLUGINDIR ) ) {

if( $dh = opendir( ABSPATH . MUPLUGINDIR ) ) {

while( ( $plugin = readdir( $dh ) ) !== false ) {

if( substr( $plugin, -4 ) == '.php' ) {

include_once( ABSPATH . MUPLUGINDIR . '/' . $plugin );

}

}

}

}

Want to know the funny part? I actually debugged it instead of going to the source in WP standalone. At least I came to the same conclusion. This should probably be reported as an MU bug – I’ll let Donncha know.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

Caught wearing my underwear on the outside. It doesn’t make me immune to cosmic cookie rays?

This was a cherry install so I didn’t have any experience with bbPress and its issues etc. The ‘add forum’ button issue existed before I added the quick fix…I found it on my first pass through the support forums trying to see how other WP2.6 success stories started out…

Did I mention that I have the bbPress files located in a subdomain called ‘forum’ i.e. mydomain.org/forum/ ?

I’ve just gone through the phpbbb vs SMF review again, just so I can get something going while these small things get cooked off, but I think I’ll stry bbPress as a stand-alone in its own db and integrate later…Do you see any drama with that path?

I just noticed that I didn’t add the SECRET_KEY value from wp-config.php (sic) to wp-settings.php as per a comment in that file…but it turns out that’s an artifact. Strike that.

These are some of the cookies that FireBug reports:

wordpress_logged_in_f004625b18565e7c579076261d01b3a5

myDomain.org 105 B /forum/ Session



wordpress_f004625b18565e7c579076261d01b3a5

myDomain.org  95 B /wp-content/plugins Session



wordpress_f004625b18565e7c579076261d01b3a5

myDomain.org  95 B /wp-admin Session



wordpress_f004625b18565e7c579076261d01b3a5

myDomain.org  95 B /forum/my-plugins Session



wordpress_f004625b18565e7c579076261d01b3a5

myDomain.org  95 B /forum/bb-plugins Session



wordpress_f004625b18565e7c579076261d01b3a5

myDomain.org  95 B /forum/bb-admin Session



wordpress_test_cookie

myDomain.org 36 B / Session

I’m checking…

[Micheal Benedict Arul]

Hey,

Is it possible to load bbpress inside wordpress ?

I am using bbpress (latest from trunk) + wp2.6.2

I have designed a theme for wp2.6.2. And my wp2.6.2 has a lot of plugins. I wish to load bbpress into wordpress. Is it possible ?

[Micheal Benedict Arul]

I too am facing the same problem.

I am trying on a local server (apache) wp2.6.2+bbpress alpha releases and also the latest version from the trunk

I have tried on ,

mysql version 5.0.16-nt

mysql version is 5.0.67-community nt

I think it is a bug.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

but in reality, administrators should be deleting the whole topic, not the only post in that topic. When you delete the only post of a topic, what are you expecting to be left over?

Yes, it’s a case of user-error finding a bug that should be caught. The code should say ‘hey, this is the only post, he must mean delete topic’ and move on, or the ‘delete post’ option shouldn’t even be there if it’s the only post in a topic. You’re both right Code should know better, user should read more (and FWIW, I made the same error when I was testing bbpress).

[chrishajer]

In testing this, the host, Dreamhost, suggested turning off mod_security, which was done, but the errors persist.

One thing I cannot understand: when accessing this URL:

http://harrismarine.co.nz/bbpress/topic.php?id=9&page=2

Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Sometimes it gives a 503 error, service not available. However, when that happens, the main site on the same server still loads fine:

http://harrismarine.co.nz/

Also, accessing this URL from another computer (at another location):

http://harrismarine.co.nz/bbpress/topic.php?id=9&page=2

is possible. So, why would a 503 error be served to some clients and not others, at the same time?

[Bharat Karavadra]

Thanks Sam,

However, after many many hours trying to fix alpha relase issues, I felt that my time was better spent on developing thr Set Forever organisation and not just the site at http://www.setforver.org

I hope to install a 1.0 alpha 2 or future release fir testing and feedback in future.

Thank you all for your support anmd great work.