I have a similar situation, although I will have forums on other subsites eventually, so I have it enabled over the whole site, but I only created forums on one subsite.
The only thing I think I had to do was set up rewrites in .htaccess from all other subsites and the main site to view user profile pages.
For the main page:
RewriteRule ^users/(.*)$ /forums/users/$1 [L,R=301]
For subsites:
RewriteRule ^[subsite]/users/(.*)$ /forums/users/$1 [L,R=301]
Also, I am using the “Move Privacy Options” plugin to make the subsite private, and I noticed that the bbpess rss feeds are not private. I am currently woking on fixing this and so far this is what I have got, which is by no means perfect.
You will need to find the functions bbp_display_topics_feed_rss2 and bbp_display_replies_feed_rss2 in bbp-topic-functions.php and bbp-reply-functions.php respectively, and add this code to the beginning of each fuction
if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) {
header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Website"');
header('HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required');
exit;
}
$user = wp_authenticate($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'], $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']);
if ( !$user || is_wp_error($user) ) {
header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Website"');
header('HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required');
}
Which should limit who can read the rss feeds to people who have a login to your wordpress site.
Thanks for this info, can you also tell me where to place the re-write rules for the main site and sub sites?
I’m sorry I see that its to add to .htaccess…thanks again, I’ll let you know how I go. CHeers
