Hi to all; a friend of mine is having troubles with his BBPress installation, so He asked me for help.

He has got a WordPress blog with BBPress integrated.

He changed hosting. He says he simpled moved the files and the database dumps.

Now, WordPress works fine, while BBPress doesn’t logs in anyone and doesn’t let to register new users.

I tried to install a fresh installation of BBPress, and it works fine; but after that, if I try to overwrite the fresh database with the old datas, it doesn’t work again.

How can I save old topics, post etc?

Thanks to all! ^^

PS: I’m not an english guy, so excuse me for any mistake!

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Cookie issues? Have you tried clearing all the cookies?

Also, there are probably places in the database that have references to file system paths and things like that (I know WordPress does this, for uploads for example.) Maybe there is something in the bbPress tables like that that is preventing it from working correctly?

What I usually do is search the tables for a string that was unique to my old host (a customer number or something else in the path that is unique) then once I find those records, I do a global search and replace on the whole string.

Maybe it’s something like that. I don’t think the database dump will just work straight-away on a new host without modification.

[@sydarex Member 15 years, 8 months ago]

Mmh, I don’t think are cookies; I tried to reinstall everything, after all!

Thank you, I’ll try to look in the database; anyway, it seems strange to me: it’s the login/registration that doesn’t work – posts and topics are alright.

I’ll try and then report here!

Thanks again! ^^

[@_ck_ Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

If you login on the wordpress side does bbPress see the user logged in?

If not, the cookie hash has probably changed and might need to be forced on both sides.

This is simple integration right, not full/deep integration?

[@sydarex Member 15 years, 8 months ago]

BBPress doesn’t see the user logged anyway.

Mmh, but I reinstalled BBPress, and then it worked right until I’ve uploaded again the old database. So I thought that the cookie hash, if corrupted, was fixed by the reinstall process. Isn’t right?

Mmh, I integrated users, cookies, everything I found on BBPress installation.

[@_ck_ Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

There are settings that stay in the database.

For example the “WordPress database secret” is stored in your database settings and would be changed when you restored the db. That will completely affect cookies.

So double check that it’s still same in WP and bbPress after you restore.

[@sydarex Member 15 years, 8 months ago]

Oh.. Can you tell me where are this setting in the database?

[@_ck_ Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

The instructions are right under the wordpress integration menu in bbpress

[@sydarex Member 15 years, 8 months ago]

I’ve solved.

Listening to _ck_, I’ve worked a little around the settings in the database. I found that some settings are stored in the bb_topicmeta table. There are some records with topic_id “0”. Obviously there are no topics with id 0 – so I deduced that are general settings.

I’ve just took the values generated by the fresh installation and put them in the old database. Now everything works fine.

Thank you all for help; particularly to _ck_ that sent me to the right way.

Bye bye!