BuddyPress.org

Here is a great introduction by Trent Adams to the HyperDB plugin.

As far as this issue is concerned:

If there are other blogs/sites created within the WPMU installation (but not BuddyPress) and other BBPress installations as well, is it recommended that everything reside in the same database, or should things like the additional BBPress installations use a separate database?

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I don’t want to completely kill whatever server this could potentially end up running on, but quick response times and user integration between all platforms is key. The higher-ups estimate that there would be about 1,000 or so users for the duration of the event,

In this scenario, splitting WPMU data between multiple databases on the same database server will not give you much of an advantage. In fact, it could even slow read/write down slightly. But, if this is a temporary site, which it sounds like it might be, then splitting the load between multiple DB servers is probably not realistic.

The biggest issue will be how many web server and DB server cycles are dedicated to your domain and how many to other people’s domains. If you have a small hosting account, then you’ll absolutely need to upgrade to a decent VPS.

There are a few multi-database WPMU plugins out there that help scale a website exactly like you’re talking about. I think the one that most people use is called HyperDB but I have no first hand experience with it. From what I understand, it’s also what wordpress.com uses to spread things around.

A few users here have some solid knowledge of this, and hopefully they’ll chime in to give you some more specific suggestions.

These forums are using bbPress, yes.

As far as the integration plugins that you will need, I’d recommend checking out the sticky topic and getting comfortable with everything before you start.

Trent and I are still working on the Forum Integration 2.0 documentation, so for now that sticky is your best bet.

This is a cookie integration issue with bbPress. You should be using bbPress 1.0 Alpha 6 for the easiest login integration.

Basically WordPress isn’t dropping the bbPress admin cookie. You need the integration plugin for WordPress to drop those cookies, if I remember correctly.

I might have done something stupid…

On step 3 of the bbpress installation process where it asks for site name, I put in my main domain name (instead of the installation path to bbpress – which I now assume I should have put?).

I had errors during installation and so I deleted the whole bbpress directory and uploaded bbpress again to a new directory (domain.com/forums). Now when I run the installation and finish step 1, I say move to step 2 and it takes me to my main domain instead of step 2. I have no idea how to fix this. I guess the installation instructions from the first install still exist.

Please advise as to how I can fix this! Thanks.

I’ve just done an integration and there was no mention of this plugin. bbPress has a WordPress Integration section in the admin where you can map the WP user roles to the bbPress user roles.

One thing I noticed though is that if you copy the

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ”);

line to wp-config.php as the guides suggest, you loose the single sign-on between the site and your WPMu created blogs. I also saw the need to hack bb-settings.php as outlined in the comments to this blog post: http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/04/25/integrate-bp-bbpress-wpmu/

What are your findings?

I’ll be doing a new integration tomorrow with WPMU 2.7.1, BP1.0, and bbPress 1.0a6, so I’ll be able to tell you right away.

My best guess is yes, because there still needs to be a mechanism to tell one part what the other part is thinking.

Everything worked fine for me:

– news users are automatically added to the forum

– creating groups also creates a forum topic (not sure if I want that)

but the problem is, it doesn’t integrates the bbpress in the buddypress-theme. The forum is in its own theme (Kakumei).

Shouldn’t it integrate with buddypress?

Thanks,

Eddie

Well try it anyway and see if you still get the error or not. Like I said, doing the above’s got everything working fine for me.

No, not yet. Future versions you would be able to, but I’m not aware of any timescale for this yet.

I can’t remember what the labels are called, but I just went in and enabled the ‘wp integration’, ‘cookie integration’ checkboxes etc during install and fill in the info it asked for, some of which was various cookie salts.

Are you specifying, in this case, the salts and keys from wp-config.php at that stage in the bbpress installation, or are you leaving them blank to do it later?

If you are leaving them blank, try completing them now as I think that might work around the problem.

wpmu 2.7.1, bp 1.0, bbpress 1.0-Alpha-6.

bbpress installed in http://example.com/forum/.

Your not trying this with WordPress are you? (as opposed to WordPress MU)

I installed bbpress just a few hours ago so I know it works. Hmm.

Are you using the same DB user account for both WPMU and bbpress? And you are sure that database ‘db62393_fabricadesuenos_comunidad’ table ‘wp_option’ doesn’t exist?