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Unless you’re experiencing heavy traffic loads (think huge) that would require the use of another server for specific data storage, having all of them installed in 1 database is the standard installation procedure.

The Forums link appears regardless of the forum physically existing or not. Once the BuddyPress forums plugin is turned on, it turns on all of the links also.

Regarding the steps you’ve taken, they’re all correct, so don’t second guess yourself there.

My guess is this is a PHP Memory error. Your host probably has you defaulted to 8MB, and you’re going to need much more than that allocated to run WPMU and XMLRPC.

In your .htaccess files (both WPMU and bbPress) put

php_value memory_limit 32M

You can also alternatively make a php.ini file, put that in your root directory, and inside it put

memory_limit = 32M

If it still doesn’t work, report back.

Which versions of bbPress are you both using?

I have the same problem as Leadingminds – I don’t get the dropdown menu to choose ‘admin’ and when I type in admin I get the same keymaster error.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Ian

You can have WPMU, bbPress, BuddyPress, and for that matter, phpBB all in the same database.

I am understand all this. But the answer will be short – is not present? It is a pity that I cannot make a forum similar to a forum of this site.

I now try to understand, can I do migration from phpbb3 community on buddypress engine. While the answer one – I can not.

But the project very interesting. It is more than possibilities on moderation and to improve integration with popular forums…

Ilya-

If you are asking about bbPress themes in general, then Google and you’ll see that there are a number of themes available for bbPress.

If you’re asking about specially customized BuddyPress-friendly bbPress themes, then the answer is as jjj points out above. With v1.0 of BuddyPress just released, theme designers are more than likely working hard at creating new, custom themes.

Once bbPress is publicly released in a stable version, I would imagine that some theme designers will create BuddyPress-friendly bbPress themes as well.

Remember, these are open source projects. The vast majority of the human resources poured into the community are done so for free. WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress all come with themes by default. It is up to the community to take those basic themes and create more flexible, powerful designs.

So, themes by default for bbpress are not present till now?

Have you included this code in your bbpress header.php theme?

<div id="search-login-bar">

<?php bp_search_form() ?>

<?php bp_login_bar() ?>



<div class="clear"></div>

</div>

Have you seen this?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2356#post-12856

Unless things have changed and I’m way behind on the new version, you need bbPress in order to use BuddyPress to its full potential. bbPress is what makes the groups work.

I had lots of login and logout issues. And to fix them, I had to “mess around with cookies and stuff like that.”

1 thing was that I copied all of the auth keys from the wp-config and put them into bb-config. Another modification was that I had to define the cookiehash. When logging into bbPress, I didn’t have that hash so there were 2 separate cookies being created. 2 separate cookies means that logging out of 1 side doesn’t kick you out of the other.

LOL. “Didn’t think I could be that much of a pain already.”

Well this is bbpress but lots of posts with multiple links get spammed by akismet. It’s not you, it’s the post.

That is a relief,

I thought it was like bbPress’ bozo feature. Didn’t think I could be that much of a pain already.

Did you search releated topics on bbpress?

To move xoops users to wpmu, you should visit wpmu forum.

Arghagain-

Adding to what jjj and TheEasyButton are saying, if you are still having issues then it is important to start from scratch. You must get WPMU functioning properly before installing BuddyPress. Then make sure BuddyPress is functioning properly before installing and integrating bbPress.

From what you are saying, it is not clear if you are upgrading WPMU from 2.6 or 2.7? Did you already have a working copy of WPMU installed? If so, what version?

If you are upgrading from 2.7 to 2.7.1 following these upgrading instructions, then make sure you finish the upgrading process by logging into WPMU’s backend as site admin and going to “Site Admin -> Upgrade”. Also, make sure you use the wp-config-sample.php file that comes with WPMU 2.7.1 and modify that version as needed. Do not use an older version of the wp-config.php file.

If you do not have an active site with real members and you are only in testing mode, then you can safely delete everything and perform a clean install. This means that you do not have any data in the MySQL DB that is worth saving.

If that is the case,save to a separate file any custom themes you may have created or installed. Also, save any 3rd-party plugins you may have installed for WPMU. Then, start from scratch. Delete everything including your MySQL DB. Once you have reinstalled WPMU succesfully, you can copy back your custom themes and 3rd-party plugins into their proper locations.

Finally, if you are still using BP RC2, it is time to switch to BuddyPress 1.0, the public release version of BP.

Hi,

I am also relatively new to WPMU/Buddypress/bbPress collection but have been doing a fare bit of playing around and testing of late.

The following plugins have worked fine for me during testing. Note that I have installed “Plugin Commander” and activated each plugin through the PC interface…

– All in one SEO

– Ozh Admin Dropdown menu

Note that the testing was done on all the latest versions of each component.

R

I agree with JJJ – If removing those lines fixes it, leave it as is. But if you\’re still unhappy with the way something is working, you could try my integration tutorial.

I\’m assuming there\’s nothing important in your bbPress database yet since you said you wiped it all out and tried again. If this assumption is correct, start with a clean install of bbPress by deleting the forums/bb-config.php file. Also, drop the tables in your database that start with bb_

You can find the tutorial at http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/04/30/integrating-buddypress-10-wpmu-and-bbpress/

It was written for BuddyPress 1.0 but works exactly the same for RC2.

Good luck and if you fix it, please remember to let us know so we\’re not still trying to find a better answer for you.

WordPress and bbPress use several cookies to ensure your identity across all directories and areas that are important to the applications. When those cookies are out of alignment, things start working strangely like you describe.

The best thing is to check the cookies that your site is dropping, review the information inside them (typically with Firefox) and see if there are any places that are obviously incorrect or pointing to the wrong locations. Then, you use those global variables to adjust the settings back into place.

This is one of those bugs that’s difficult to diagnose, difficult to direct you to a fix, and hard to explain where to even start.

It’s also PIVOTAL that all of your separate applications (WPMU, BP, bbP) are all correctly installed/upgraded to begin with. If you’ve never gotten to a point where they were playing nice together in the first place, it will be extremely hard to figure out what’s wrong.