Hi,

I have installed WordPress (3.3.1) and BuddyPress (1.5.2). I have no other plugins.

Every time I try to post a “New Topic” in the group forum it comes back with a red error message: “This group does not have a forum setup yet.”. If I try doing it through the main Forum tab instead then I get an error saying I haven’t selected a Group to put it in, even though I have done exactly that.

I have tried deactivating and reactivating BuddyPress. I have tried deselecting and reselecting the forum option within the group. I have checked to see if the 7 tables were created. I have checked to see if the bp-config.php file is in the root directory.

I can’t find any other solutions in this Forum…. anyone got any ideas!?

Many thanks.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 12 years, 11 months ago]

Were the 7 tables created?

[@lucust Member 12 years, 11 months ago]

The 7 tables were created. Where they should be “yourPrefix_bb_forums” (for example), mine are all prefixed with “wp”. But I assume that is just the default setting?

[@wceolin Member 12 years, 11 months ago]

@lucust

I had the same issue. I found BP hadn’t created bb-config.php at root directory. I just created it and it worked fine.

You have to define some lines like wp-config.php:

define( ‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘dbname’ );
define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘dbuser’ );
define( ‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘dbpass’ );
define( ‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘dbhost’ );
define( ‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘myGLOBALDB’ );
$bb_table_prefix = ‘wp_bb_’;
$bb->custom_user_table = ‘wp_users’;
$bb->custom_user_meta_table = ‘wp_usermeta’;

I also had to copy those following lines from wp-config.php:
define(‘AUTH_KEY’,”);
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ”);
define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ”);
define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ”);
define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ”);
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ”);
define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ”);
define(‘NONCE_SALT’, ”);

[@dcavins Keymaster 12 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks for the suggestion. I had a copy of bbconfig from my MAMP installation and bbpress couldn’t find its tables. Updating the bbconfig to the server settings fixed the problem.