Did you install bbPress via dashboard BuddyPress > Forums Set Up? That would be needed to get the forums page going.
Yep I did that, and when it said everything was fine, I did it again and then reinstalled it one more time to be sure
It’s getting more interesting now:
After going through the forum install one more time, I looked into the bb-config.php file that was generated.
$bb_table_prefix = ‘wp_bb_’;
There is no table in the database that starts with wp_bb_.
I even removed the bb-config.php and ran the forum installation again and still no tables. It’s like it’s making the config file without doing the backend stuff.
Any ideas?
I had the same problem yesterday. I installed the BBPress plugin from the Plugins menu. I don’t know exactly what I did to fix it but here is a list:
I deleted the BBpress folder from the plugins folder.
I deleted all the test groups (new site) that I had created.
I let BuddyPress do the installation again.
Just reinstalled everything and no dice. It didn’t work at all.
I’ve tried every combination of reinstall I can think of but it just won’t load the database tables.
There is a number of forum problems on other threads at the moment – I’m having issues too. I can post to the forums but my subscribers now can’t…
@rohan_kapoor – install same as your configurations; check bb-config.php – sample here http://wordpress.pastebin.com/1qAdu2q3
– after correcting your bb-config.php at root, you can re-run forum creation – BuddyPress > Forums Setup and click on re-install link. There should be 7 tables of bbPress generated in database wp_bb_forums, wp_bb_meta etc. as well as a new bbPress folder generated within wp-content/plugins/buddypress folder in server.
My installation for the bbpress folder is in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums. Does the extra folder level make a difference to the plugin working properly?