[febwa1976]

I get 400 error – bad request when trying to run the bb-admin/install script.

I am installing on http://subdomain.domain.com

Host is ASO

Check database username :pass 10 times.

No trailing / at end of http://subdomain.domain.com in config.php

I have tried “/” and /forum/ in config file

I am probably doing something stupid

Any clues?

[Elad Salomons]

I had no problems with the same configuration (host site5).

Is your config file located in the subdomain directory?

[febwa1976]

yes its in the subdomain directory. .. I am going to try on a new domain root install.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

What is the url you’re tring to install it to?

http://subdomain.domain.com/forums/ ?

If that’s the case, you need to install bbPress in the directory on your server that that url points to. You config should then look like:

$bb->domain = 'http://subdomain.domain.com';

$bb->path = '/forums/';

[febwa1976]

OK – This is what I did at the beginning.

ASO has cpanel.

I went to cpanel and created “subdomain” called “forum”

When you do this cpanel automatically creates a directory “forum”

I uploaded BBpress to this directory.

I created a database in cpanel and completed the fields in config.php

I tried $bb->domain = ‘http://forum.domain.com’;

$bb->path = ‘/forums/’; plus a lot of others.

Does not work.

So,

I went to a current subdomain I have http://test.domain.com and in cpanel physically created a directory /forum/.

I populated config.php with the data and it WORKS! (looks good by the way!!).

The only thing is that my forum is at

test.domain.com/forum/

I cannot get it to the root at

test.domain.com

(by the way when I install WP to testexample.domain.com it works first time every time and I do not have to install it to, and call it from testexample.domain.com/wpdirectory/

Sorry for the long post and hope it is clear…

What am I missing here?

[Matt Mullenweg]

The path is for the URL.

So if forums.example.com is public_html/forums/ on your server, you still just want / to be your path because when you load it in a browser it’s: http://forums.example.com/.

[febwa1976]

Soooo. It works!

As usual it was the unexpected simple thing. My domain is at one host and the subdomain is at another. The A record was not propogating correctly. I fixed this and the install worked first time.

Thanks for taking the time to help.

[liyacaty]

I populated config.php with the data and it WORKS! (looks good by the way!!).

The only thing is that my forum is at

test.domain.com/forum/

I cannot get it to the root at

test.domain.com