config-sample.php says:

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores

I do want to have multiple forums in a single database.

Why do I need to change it from bb_?

What would be intelligent to change it to?

Duh?

Thanks

[@sambauers Participant 17 years ago]

You could prefix the first install “bb1_” an the second “bb2_” (you get the idea)…

Whatever makes sense to you, there is no guideline.

[@sambauers Participant 17 years ago]

…you need to change them unless you want the same data in each installation.

[@imagiscapeca Member 17 years ago]

So I should list

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb1_’;

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb2_’;

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb3_’;

?

(I don’t understand how the program would determine which prefix to apply to which forum.)

“what makes sense to me”

Ok, so I might use, for example:

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_installation_’;

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_plugins_’;

…

Does “each installation” refer to multiple forums or multiple what?

Do I need to install something more than once?

Thank you.

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years ago]

If you want multiple forums, you need to do multiple installations, and each bbPress installation will be in a directory of its own, and the config.php in each individual directory should have a unique table prefix, as Sam suggested, like bb1_, bb2_.

In that case, each forum would be access with a different URL as well.

Maybe your site is at http://www.website.com . A normal bbPress installation would be in something like http://www.website.com/forums/ or http://www.website.com/bbpress/ . To have multiple forums, you would access them like this:

http://www.website.com/forum1/

http://www.website.com/forum2/

http://www.website.com/forum3/

or

http://www.website.com/football/

http://www.website.com/baseball/

http://www.website.com/hockey/

and the associated directories on the server would be

/var/www/htdocs/yourname/football/

/var/www/htdocs/yourname/baseball/

/var/www/htdocs/yourname/hockey/

If you just want multiple forums or subforums in your bbPress installation, you just need to install one time, then set up the forums/subforums within bbPress. You don’t need multiple forum installations.

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years ago]

If you are going to do something like bb_installation_ and bb_plugins_, it sounds like you want subforums. You would have one installation in a directory like /forums/ then you create subforums in your admin panel.

You would NOT create multiple $bb_table_prefix = lines – that wouldn’t work.