Hello.

I just installed the bbpress to my wordpress site. I was just setting it up, and int he settings it had a line where you could set the url of the install. I mistakenly thought I could use this to change it to a shorter version.

I was on: http://www.mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bb-admin/ (I think)

and I changed to http://www.mydomain.com/forum

Now its broken. All I get is a 404 page from my wordpress site.

I tried deleting and reinstalling but it won’t work!

Any idea how I can fix this?

Please help!!!

Thanks

[@collmonster Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

Phew! Fixed it (found it in an old topic):

Find: “bb-config.php” and add the following:

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://www.mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress’;

Ok so if I do actually want to change the url to mydomain.com/forum – how do I do this, can anyone tell me please?

Thanks in advance!

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

Are you installing bbPress as a plugin under your WordPress?

[@collmonster Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

Yes, from within WordPress 2.8.4 I found the plugin and did the automatic install.

Is this not how I should do it? Should I just upload the files to a /forum directory and install from there?

How can i then link it to my main menu on my wordpress blog?

Thanks!

[@ipstenu Moderator 15 years, 4 months ago]

bbPress isn’t a plugin. It should have been installed in the http://www.mydomain.com/forum directory. You should move it there and then remove that bb->uri setting.

Any integration from WP to BB may need to be re-set at this point (just changing the locations etc).