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I’m having this same problem and I have disabled all plugins and reverted to the bp-default theme – no luck. I also can’t find a solution to this anywhere.

Everything works fine on my localhost version, but things went haywire when I transferred the site and my database to the server. All my bugs up until now have been database-related, and considering my admin panel no longer had Forums for Groups activated at first (even though it was prior to transfer, and all my other settings were saved just fine), I think this might be as well.

Also, I only receive the “This group does not have a forum” error when I try to post a new topic to a new group I create, post-migration. If I try to post a new topic to an existing group, that I previously set up while on my localhost, I receive the error “There was an error when creating the topic.”

Okay well its the darndest thing…

I created a brand new group (the first I’ve created since updating bb-config.php) and successfully posted a topic. Everything appears to be working fine!

Osha, all of the above is my way of saying – check your bb-config.php file, located in your root folder. Make sure you have the correct `BBDB_NAME`, `BBDB_USER`, `BBDB_PASSWORD` and `BBDB_HOST` filled in. At least that’s where the solution was for me.

@davidveldt updating DB info in bb-config.php along with wp-config.php is definitely something to remember when you migrate site from localhost.

@kingary – do you mean you also migrated from localhost and/or that you can’t get Group Forums going?

@mercime It’s a new buddypress install on a new WP install: http://social.ourenglishclass.net. The admin pages say everything’s set up fine, but I can’t create a forum through the groups page or through the main forum page. I always get this message:

“This group does not have a forum setup yet.”

Sorry I didn’t get to this sooner, I’m glad you resolved your problem!

For anyone else searching this same issue and landing on this thread. The file you may need to check is bb-config.php. You’ll notice it looks very similar to wp-config.php:

`// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for bbPress */
define( ‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘Your Database Name Here’ );

/** MySQL database username */
define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘Your Username Here’ );

/** MySQL database password */
define( ‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘Your Database Password Here’ );

/** MySQL hostname */
define( ‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘Your Host Name Here’ );`

If you are unsure about any of these settings, ask your webhost.