Hi!

I am encountering issues with a fresh install of bbPress 2.0 plugin:

http://squales.high-bridge.fr/forums shows 404 error.

Plugin settings are all by default. My permalinks settings are default : (i.e.: http://squales.high-bridge.fr/?p=123)

I created a page with the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] linked in my nav bar.

Forums show OK, but bbPress navigation link “Forums” shows a blank page.

Any help would be appreciated

Many thanks in advance!!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 12 years, 6 months ago]

Try visiting your permalinks page, and saving them. Sometimes they need a refresh after bbPress is installed.

[@squalesblog Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

Hi John!

I followed several walthroughs like trying to refresh permalinks and re-saving bbPress settings, with no luck! :'(

Any ideas?

Thanks

[@squalesblog Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

OK, so I tried to change the permalinks to “http://squales.high-bridge.fr/%post_name%/” and “http://squales.high-bridge.fr/forums” works by I get a blank page.

I found what’s causing the issue: the bbp-forum-index points to “http://website/forum” (without the s) instead of forums.

This is why the navigation “Home > Forums” link is also broken…

Could anyone tell me how to fix this, please??

Many thanks!

[@squalesblog Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

Hi again!

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Does anyone know what’s wrong with the shortcode bbp-forum-index pointing to url “forum” instead of “forums”?

Many thanks in advance.

[@lynq Participant 12 years, 6 months ago]

Whenever I have a fairly serious issue like this I follow these three steps first:

– Switch to a default theme like twentyten

– Disable plugins

– Update permalinks

Give that a go then see what happens when you disable each individual plugin.

[@squalesblog Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

Hi!

@Lynq: Thanks for you reply. I tried all those troubleshooting, with no luck :”'(

@bookespana: Thanks. Hopefully, I know what a http404 error is and this does not help much more…

As explained, if you go to http://squales.high-bridge.fr, then click on the link in the navbar “Forums”, you reach the following url: http://squales.high-bridge.fr/forum –> here’s the error as it should be “Forums” (with an S).

Then click on any forum. You’ll see navigation links “Accueil > Forums”.

If you make an onmouseover on the “Forums” link, you’ll see that it points to http://squales.high-bridge.fr/forums.

Finally, if you click, you get a blank page…

Any ideas?

Thanks for your replies,

Regards.

[@enderandrew Participant 12 years, 6 months ago]

I’ve run into this a few times myself with bbPress 2.0. Sadly I didn’t find the root cause and a proper fix, but I did find a workaround. I change the root slug of the forums to Discussion and then I uncheck “Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug (Recommended)”

So my Movies forum is:

http://site.com/forum/Movies and that works. Then I used “Page Links to” and create a menu entry for Forums that links to http://site.com/Discussion as the root of the forums.