Anybody any ideas as to what to do with this?
Warning: require(/home/ifoundu/public_html/forum/bbpress/bb-includes/compat.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ifoundu/public_html/forum/bbpress/bb-settings.php on line 68
Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/ifoundu/public_html/forum/bbpress/bb-includes/compat.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/ifoundu/public_html/forum/bbpress/bb-settings.php on line 68
ok I understand. But where can I find this pseudo-widget ?
Hi Fishbowl81,
I want to make the bbpress forum to load in my buddypress site from a tab ‘forum’ which is like other tabs like home, blog, members. As you have on your site gorgeousgamers.com.
So that it incorporates the sites design theme and can still navigate through other tabs.
What is the best way around this?
Many thanks,
At this stage in development, there is no Forum widget unfortunately, and there may not be one based on the complexity of how it is put together.
There is a pseudo-widget, that will allow for some recent topic and forum display layouts, but past that everything in terms of posting, replying, etc. must be done within bbPress itself, via some integration and theme duplication.
No there’s no debug mechanism for the group forums. It’s supposed to just be correct. 
Here’s a little test rig I created that just tests the connection link between mu and bbpress.
http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/xmlrpc-test-rig.zip
It’s a wpmu client plugin and a bbpress server plugin. All it does is use the settings found in site admin > bbpress forums and makes bbpress say ‘hello’.
Uses the URL, username, and password. Authenticates them and says ‘hello’.
What is this thing called keymaster? What is the link to install bbpress? Was it a
good idea to install the bbpress in wp-conent/plugins or is it beter to perhaps
put it in mu-plugins maybe create a new directory in the root and call it forums.
1) you have bbpress installed and a new user created on the “bbPress” side which you granted “administrator” rights by the keymaster
Regards, Charles Pisano
./wordpress-mu-root-dirctory/whatever-you-want
Mine is at delsolownersclub.com/discussions/
You just need to make sure you reference that directory everyplace you need to within BuddyPress and bbPress to make sure they see each other.
Ok can anyone tell me where to install the bbpress is it
wp-content plugins?
mu-plugins?
maybe it is mu-plugins/bbpress hmmmmm
Where does one put the my-plugin folder hmmm
Regards Charles Pisano
Burt, no need… I got it working using your trick in the other topic… I posted my fix there also because I didn’t want to confuse my personal issue with others’ global successes…
Either way, it’s working 100% now… Perfectly.
Woo woo!
SWEEET SUCCESSSSS!
Okay… For those of that might be using “deep integration” namely using your BuddyPress/MU functions in bbPress, at the time of this writing at the top of your bb-config.php file, put…
if ( !defined( 'ABSPATH' ) & !defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST')) {
include_once( 'absolute/path/to/your/wordpressmu-directory/wp-blog-header.php' );
}
This way, it only tries to include the MU/BP functions if they haven’t already been defined and if it’s NOT a xmlrpc request!
DUH! Yay! Burt, haha you rule…
@john.. no there isn’t anything like a ‘hello’ you can do. There is an xmlrpc function that does that but you have to have the link between them working for it to return anything. Lemme see what I can cobble together from the bbGroups plugin. I actually used that ‘say hello’ fn to see if I had a link going or if it was just my plugins not working right.
You can put the forum wherever you want to be honest, but my directions was assuming you knew what bbPress is. It is a completely seperate software package and needs to be installed somewhere 
In my example it was mydomain.com/forum/ and I installed it from downloading from https://bbpress.org/download/
That is the first step and most people install it so that it uses the same userbase from your WPMU install (which is part of the bbPress installation steps)
Hope that makes it clear.
Trent
Burt, I hope it’s okay to post this in this topic. I didn’t want to muck up the sticky so I figured this might be best?
I did your debug trick, and this is what I got out of it…
TRANS:array(3) {
["headers"]=>
array(11) {
["date"]=>
string(29) "Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:38:04 GMT"
["server"]=>
string(6) "Apache"
["cache-control"]=>
string(62) "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"
["expires"]=>
string(29) "Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT"
["pragma"]=>
string(
"no-cache"
["x-pingback"]=>
string(50) "http://delsolownersclub.com/discussions/xmlrpc.php"
["x-powered-by"]=>
string(9) "PHP/5.2.8"
["set-cookie"]=>
string(50) "PHPSESSID=3b8ae666f00ea382cab1706711f718d7; path=/"
["last-modified"]=>
string(29) "Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:38:05 GMT"
["transfer-encoding"]=>
string(7) "chunked"
["content-type"]=>
string(24) "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
}
["body"]=>
string(18499) [...]
["response"]=>
array(2) {
["code"]=>
int(404)
["message"]=>
string(9) "Not Found"
}
}
Now, the URL for x-pingback is valid, I know it is because I’m looking right at it now. I’m assuming that the 404 is for that file, responding back saying it can’t find it? Is it possible that my .htaccess is disallowing it? Hmm….
WAIT I know what it is! Maybe… When I try to access that file directly, I get a redeclare error, something to do with IXR_IntrospectionServer. My guess is this deep integration business is causing it to be included twice…
I am attempting to install the forum myself now. Ok so what I did first was to go ahead and in the root dirctory created a folder called forums. Next, what I did was to go ahead and download from wordpress the bp press forum module. Is this correct so far?
Regards,
Charles Pisano
Hi Ok I am thinking about installing the forums. However, these directions are not clear. Lets start at the beginning for everyone shall we. Should I create a folder
called forums and inside forums put my-plugins? Should I download the BP Press into the forum directory.
Regards, Charles Pisano
The part I slam my head against is that it DID work, one time. It created the forum, remember that’s how I knew it appended “-forum” at the end of it. It hasn’t worked since that day… And I don’t know what I did… If anythng… Arg… Ha!
That’s a good post though… I’ll try your debugging method and see what I get out of it… Is there a sure-fire way to check if the bridge between the two apps is playing nice, say by echo’ing a value somewhere to see which directories it’s pointing to, etc?
John, the user you use for group forums just has to have an ‘Administrator’ role or better. Keymaster should work. You should be aware that the password for that user is stored on the wpmu side in plain text in the blog 1 meta data table. Gotta have access to phpmyadmin to get it but..
Your permalinks on the bbpress side don’t have anything to do with it at all. XMLRPC is used and the only query for any type of asset by URL is to the xmlrpc.php file. Permalinks don’t come into play at all. As long as the wpmu side can find your site’s root url and the xmlrpc.php file that is supposed to live there all is well.
Don’t know about the deep integration question.
I followed all the steps and it still wasn’t working. I was doing everything right. I did everything right about 10 times. Still wasn’t working. This thread is me finding out why: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=426
Question about step 1.
You say that the user has to be created on the “bbPress” side. Does this refer to a user that is registered through register.php via the forums? What if my forums were integrated from day 1 with WordPress? Is it okay to just use the “admin” keymaster account?
Question about permalinks and .htaccess.
I am using pretty permalinks on the bbPress side, and there is an .htaccess file on the root of the bbpress install folder. What would I want to look out for to prevent this from causing a problem?
Question about “deep integration”
I am currently including my wp-blog-header.php file inside my bb-config.php file. Will this cause conflicts?
Question about what to do if I swear I’ve followed the steps the way they are written and the ways everyone else has said, and it isn’t working.
egerrits, come on over to this thread and contribute to the discussion there.
BP Content Tags Project – Call For Ideas
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1304
Andy, I can’t seem to post such a lengthy response in this forum…it wont save my post. I will try upload it somewhere for download (for the response), but here is some info:
The console shows a red error:
POST http://jurnl.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-ajax-handler.php
http://jurnl.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-ajax-handler.php
404 Not Found
456ms
Although I got excited, I verified the file is there.
The Request looks like this:
_wpnonce
318ee4a2ca
action
addremove_friend
cookie
PHPSESSID%3D5085d0cb2f4434771cfa8a20d63358cf%3B%20wordpress_test_cookie%3DWP%2BCookie%2Bcheck
fid
1
The Response I can’t post here so will upload it and let you know.
Will post soon.
Thanks
His previous post on same problem https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1256
I can point to other threads about this same issue on the mu forums by Bill. Wouldn’t do much good though it’s the same problem and there was no resolution over there either.
I don’t know how the problem was resolved in the thread above. I was just told by Bill that it was fixed in a PM. I got the impression that Bill had found the problem and it was a *smack forehead* duh! kinda thing. I didn’t pursue it any further. Closed the topic so people wouldn’t think it was an outstanding issue.
Nobody else is having this particular issue and yes it’s been going on for some time now.
I made a snarky post because it was the only thing that generated any sort of assistance. I expect to have problems with RC-1 versions. I also expect the support forum to work. This is the first comment I’ve been able to successfully post in days. I spend months telling my members bloggers that BuddyPress was going to do wonders for their blog.
As I recall, the post that most recently preceded the break was one that included an image, followed by one line of text.
I’m not trying to be snarky here, but I would expect a plugin to not break when this happens. I have bloggers who post almost nothing but pictures and YouTube videos.
It’s not a theme issue, since this has happened using at least three different themes on my front page and on a member blog.
With all due respect, your attitude makes me want to help you less, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.
First of all, this is pre-release software, if you were not prepared or did not expect potential headaches, then you should not have installed BuddyPress.
The community around this project is coming on leaps and bounds, usually all threads will eventually get an answer which is almost unheard of for something so new. There have been caching issues with the forums, nothing to do with bbPress, and it has been temperamental with all forums on Automattic servers. This should be cleared up now.
Your problem sounds like perhaps something in a post is breaking the blogs widget, which would explain why it sometimes works, and sometimes does not.
If you can somehow monitor which post was the newest when the widget stopped working, that would help a great deal to address what it is in the post that is breaking the widget.
If anyone else has experienced this issue – please post a reply here.
Ok so…I have successfully installed bbpress, WPMU and buddypress via the instructions here…Still getting this when trying to create forum: “Attention Site Admin: Group forums require correct setup and configuration of a bbPress installation.”
I have ran through the steps 10 times and have MU 2.7, bbpress 1.0-alpha-6 & Buddypress beta 2.
I also should know that in dev, I followed all the same steps and had success. Would there be any reason why cookies work, duplicate log-ins work and yet no forum sync up?
