Using version 1.0x

I have install step 1 successfully completed. When I hit ‘goto Step 2’ it tells me “Oh dear! bbPress is already installed.”

and I have no way going to install Step 3 – site settings. That’s where my problem starts.

When I browse the install directory: ctubeslabs.com/bp/ I get a rudimentary login screen where it tells me that http://ctubeslabs.com/forum/ can not be found. No wonder, this should be …/bp/

but where can I configure the forum path? I searched through all PHP files but did not find this config value.

I am stuck, thanks for any help,

cTubes

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

Try this?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/step-two-questions#post-38871

[@ctubes Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

Thank you! Install worked now, but there is still a directory problem (I did some browsing in this forum but did not find a specific answer)

I have WP and BB installed in separate directories (WP and BP) under htdocs.

The WordPress blog address is ctubeslabs.com

At bb install I chose ctubeslabs.com/forum as the forums address

Now, when I go to ctubeslabs.com/forum WP handles it and responds with ‘not found’.

At http://ctubeslabs.com/bp/ I get the (unstyled) forum homepage without content.

When I manually type in ctubeslabs.com/bp/bb-admin it redirects to ctubeslabs.com/forum

So missing a clear concept how it should work I am a bit stuck again. For example what is the intended mechanism to make WP ignore the bb url and let bb handle it?

Thanks again for any help!

[@rohan_kapoor Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

You need to make a page in wordpress called forums that will allow you to access the /forums directory.

[@ctubes Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

you mean a redirect page? from ./forum/… to ./bp/…. ? looks as if this would require a WP plugin

Sorry, perhaps its trivial but I do not see it yet!

[@ipstenu Moderator 15 years, 4 months ago]

Try renaming the bp folder to forum?

[@rohan_kapoor Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

rename your bp folder to forum and then create a PAGE in wordpress that says forum. If you have a folder named forum wordpress will transfer the page control over to it and when you click the link to that page it will go to the forum.

[@ctubes Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

This solved it, thanks a lot!

I created the ./forum page, plus a subpage ./forum/bb-admin in wordpress, for some reason admin did not work immediately. After taking a snapshot of the VM the bb admin function works now, strange. I assume some caching issue.

Thanks for the great product, I can already say this is the forum I have been looking for!