[Lance Willett]

OK, a clean install sounds like a great idea. Keep us posted!

[mypop]

@Lance

I used the readme file, and cross checked with Trent’s notes.

I’ve just lost my admin log in to the system, not done anything, it’s just started to not let men in, other users OK, but not admin, weird,

I’ve even deleted wp_config.php and re-installed and it won;t let me in.

So I’m going to clear everything out and start completely from scratch, ifi it doesn’t work this time, it must be something to do with the xml-rpc calls or hosting configuration.

[Lance Willett]

Are there any errors in your server logs?

Based on those database values I’d say that it’s clear that when you create a new group it’s not creating a new forum in bbPress, otherwise your new group would also have a meta_key with a value of “forum_id” and your bp_forums table would have a new entry as well.

This might be a hard one to track down as it could be a problem with your host/server and not with BuddyPress/bbPress.

Just as a matter of being thorough… did you follow Trent’s steps or the steps in the forum component readme file?

When I did my setup I used the readme file steps and everything worked smoothly. Nothing against Trent’s tips and tricks, but I found that if I followed the readme steps it worked fine.

Do you have a way to try the same setup on a different server or maybe on your local machine?

[mypop]

@Lance,

Done it may times, just done it again, here’s the infor for the new forum from

id creator_id name slug

17 1 Lance Group8 lance-group8

“groupmeta” data:

id group_id meta_key meta_value

65 17 total_member_count 1

66 17 last_activity 1239056228

67 17 theme buddypress

68 17 stylesheet buddypress

There is only one entry in the bb_forums table:

forum_id forum_name forum_slug forum_desc

1 Test test qwswsq

This is driving me nuts!

[Lance Willett]

and even created new forums

Have you tried creating a brand new group and enabling the forum for it? I only see one group on your site. You could try creating a new group, enabling the forum, then test again.

Since the issue is with an existing forum/group connection, it could be that BuddyPress thinks the forum exists (with a certain “id”) which doesn’t exist in bbPress any more.

If you look in the “wp_bp_groups_groupmeta” table in your database, find the “group_id” for the group you are testing, and then look in the “bp_forums” table and see if the same id is being used there for a forum (look at the “forum_id”).

[mypop]

@Mesgains, thanks for that, I’d already added the $bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true; so it’s not that,

I’ve been through Trent’s tutorials double checking everything as a I go, and as he says “If you have made it this far, it will work” …!!**!!

The bbPress forums are located here: http://mypartyonparty.biz/forums

@Lance, tried, I get the red message of death! “There was an error posting that topic.”

I’ve switched “Enable discussion forum” off and on again, and even created new forums, and there’s nothing of significance in wp_bp_groups_groupmeta

I’ve even tried a different user set up with wp and bb admin priviledges.

[Lance Willett]

I looked at your site, and in the one group (Test group7), I am seeing the forum (http://mypartyonparty.biz/groups/test-group7/forum). Looks like it’s working… did you try adding a new forum topic yet?

[mesgains]

hi Mypop,

Do you add this line into your bbPress bb-config.php to enable user switching ? $bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;

i followed those advices below to install my forum. I hope it can help you

here is a video :

http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/23/integrating-a-bbpress-forum-with-your-self-installed-wordpress/

and there some good tips :

http://trentadams.com/2009/04/01/buddypress-forums-tutorial/

I notice that the twitter plugin makes some conflits with the bb_press install. I deleted it.

[mypop]

p.s. yes I have also enabled XML-RPC and pingbacks in bbPREss ..

[mypop]

@Lance,

Thanks, already did that! ( I saw the new menu at the bottom of the screen) – It actually carried over my previous settings, so I deleted and re-entered them, and saved twice, just in case the refresh bug was still about…

I went through each of those new options and hit save / update on each page to make sure that the settings had been set.

[Lance Willett]

Mypop, when you are in the MU admin area — go to the last menu item (it should be labeled “BuddyPress”). Click “Component Setup” and make sure that bbPress Forums is enabled.

Then click the link in that same admin menu that says “Forum setup”, and make sure the settings there are correct.

I noticed when I recently upgraded my BuddyPress to the latest trunk (rev 1324) that those forum settings were empty, so I had to enter them again (URL, username, and password).

[Jeff Sayre]

I’ve tried it on MU 2.7 and MU trunk

If you simply updated to the recent BP trunk without following this notice ( https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994 ), then you will have all sorts of issues.

[Johanhorak]

Hi BuddyPress is Core: 1.0-RC1 / Messages: 1.0-RC1 / Profile: 1.0-RC1 / Groups: 1.0-RC1 / Friends: 1.0-RC1 / Blogs: 1.0-RC1 / Activity: 1.0-RC1 / Wire: 1.0-RC1 / Forums: 1.0-RC1 /

MU 2.7

Some more symptoms or are they causes:

When I try and search for a member/user created at MU I cannot find the member. When I update the member/user’s profile at buddypress I get the member/user.

From an error message I am being told in bp that a member need to have complete at least one field in their profile to be active.

[mStudios]

nm – I was not working off the alpha version. though with the alpha the whole install gives problems. back to the drawing board for me.

[mStudios]

alright, same outcome problem but with a little twist:

4) Edit \”settings\” to enable xmlrpc and pingbacks (both)

can\’t do as I do not have these checkboxes anywhere, not in bbpress nor wpmu.

bbpress works fine by itself but obviously is not connected as the bp theme does not translate and getting the dreaded error in groups when I try to post a topic.

so, where should those checkboxes be? up to there I followed all points and also 6) and 7) seem fine.

any hint appreciated!

downloaded all 3 installs within the past 3 days, so all should be the latest.

[Burt Adsit]

Some people will want to keep everything in bp and only use group forums. Don’t want their users going out of bp. Perhaps they don’t want to create another theme for bbpress. Keeps the forum solution simple.

Keeping all group forum activity in the group *is* the purpose of bp’s group forums.

There isn’t a forum in the demo other than the individual group forums.

[Andy Peatling]

Follow these instructions, you will need to update WPMU too.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994

[Jeff Sayre]

I prefer Slicehost over MediaTemple. Given your stated requirements, a 1GB slice will work fine. You\’d probably even be okay with a 512 slice. In fact, you can start with 512 and upgrade if you find it is insufficient.

By the way, here is a Slicehost forum thread you may find useful: http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=1082&page=1#Item_0

[takuya]

here.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1877

[Jeff Sayre]

Gpo1-

I, too, have been investigating Amazon EC2. I will be using Amazon’s S3 for a site, but have not yet determined if I want to also take advantage of Amazon’s Compute Cloud services. Either way, here are a few links that might point you in the right direction:

1. This guy is already doing what you want to do. He runs his WordPress-based site on EC2 using S3. He talks about the process in this article. Perhaps you could contact him for more details if needed.

This Web Site is Now Hosted on Amazon EC2 & S3

2. Information on using Amazon’s S3 with WordPress Mu:

– http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wordpress-s3/

– https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=6351

– http://www.ringofblogs.com/2008/04/12/off-loading-wpmu-theme-files-to-amazon-s3/

Good luck! Let us know if you get this working.

[oldskoo1]

If anyone else is looking for the answer to this see my post here : https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1979#post-10620

Simply, i made a dirty little hack, as follows:

“

So, simply put, add the following SQL : AND EXTRACT(DAY_MINUTE FROM wb.last_updated)!=EXTRACT(DAY_MINUTE FROM wb.registered)

to the functions :

function get_by_letter

function get_all

in the file:

/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-blogs/directories/bp-blogs-directory-blogs.php

“

[Lance Willett]

I changed Wire to Wall, see my notes at https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1877#post-9953.

[Jeff Sayre]

Some useful ideas can be found here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1651

[Deli Yaban]

great information..thanks very much..

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

English posts, please.

BP is really WPMU. I suggest you go to those forums and do some research.