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@rohan_kapoor – install same as your configurations; check bb-config.php – sample here http://wordpress.pastebin.com/1qAdu2q3 – after correcting your bb-config.php at root, you can re-run forum creation – BuddyPress > Forums Setup and click on re-install link. There should be 7 tables of bbPress generated in database wp_bb_forums, wp_bb_meta etc. as well as a new bbPress folder generated [...]

I’ve tried every combination of reinstall I can think of but it just won’t load the database tables.

Just reinstalled everything and no dice. It didn’t work at all.

Actually my problem seems identical to this one:

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/one-click-forum-bbpress-install-did-not-created-bbpress-table/

The solution there isn’t working for me.

It’s getting more interesting now: After going through the forum install one more time, I looked into the bb-config.php file that was generated. $bb_table_prefix = ‘wp_bb_’; There is no table in the database that starts with wp_bb_. I even removed the bb-config.php and ran the forum installation again and still no tables. It’s like it’s [...]

Yes, that’s exactly how it will work. Buddypress simply skins the registration process. Your users can register sitewide (I would recommend on the main install) and will be able to sign on anywhere within the site.

Yep I did that, and when it said everything was fine, I did it again and then reinstalled it one more time to be sure