During step 3 of the installation process, I accidentally inputted the wrong URL for my forum.

It asked me for the Site address (URL), which was defaulted to:

http://mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/

I changed this to

http://mysite.com/forums/

Now I can’t access the forums at all, and I can’t figure out how to change the URL back. I looked at bb-config.php, but didn’t see any way to fix this.

I’m not good with PHP and I’m new to WordPress in general, so any novice advice would be much appreciated!

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

Are the files actually installed in the WordPress plugin folder, or in a folder called forums now, located beside or or below the root WordPress folder?

[Inactive 16 years, 5 months ago]

The files are located in wp-content/plugins/plugins/bbpress

I’d like to switch my settings to point back to this directory, but can’t find a way to do this.

Thanks for your help!

[@poioioing Member 16 years, 5 months ago]

in table bb_topicmeta

look for meta_key = uri

[@sambauers Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

You shouldn’t be installing bbPress in the WordPress plugin folder.

It’s not a plugin.

[Inactive 16 years, 5 months ago]

@ sambauers: Ok — good to know

So I’ve moved the bbpress files over to

http://mysite.com/forums

And now things seem to look better. I can see the admin page for bbpress.

However, now it seems that a link to the forum stylesheet is broken. When I look at http://mysite.com/forms, I see the forum homepage, but with no CSS styling. Then, when I click on to view a forum topic, like http://mysite.com/forums/topic/test-topic, I seem to get redirected to my blog’s homepage. I’m confused!

Sorry for all the novice questions! Your help is much appreciated.

[Inactive 16 years, 5 months ago]

One other quick note. I just tried to view the default forum stylesheet in my browser, so navigated to:

http://mysite.com/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

And again was redirected to my blog’s homepage. I’m confused as to why this is happening?

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

1. Please post a link to your forum so we can take a look.

2. No styling usually means the path to the stylesheet is wrong. You can look in the source of the HTML to see that.

3. Redirecting is probably because you have true or slugs for your permalinks setting, but you haven’t set up permalinks yet. You can set the permalinks to false to get the forum working right now, then take the next step and make permalinks work.

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

Either that, or the stylesheet is really not there at the URL you tried, and WordPress is intercepting that and sending you to 404 page.