Group forums not working? On a DV?
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I haven’t been able to get group forums up and running. Until now that is.
If you have problems getting this up and running and you are on a Dedicated Virtual Server (DV) then you may need to edit the /etc/hosts file on your box. bp uses a goodie from sambauers that uses xmlrpc to talk to bbpress.
The little goodie relies on a php lib called curl. curl goes out and gets some stuff from bbpress to find an xmlrpc connection endpoint to talk to. Well, curl relies on the operating system to tell it the ip address of the url we need to talk to. I want to connect to ‘ourcommoninterest.org/bbpress/’ in my case.
To resove the host ‘ourcommoninterest.org’ into an ip address it first looks in my local /etc/hosts file. If it can’t find what it’s looking for then it goes out and uses dns to resolve the host name.
Since I’m running on a dv my hosts file just contains a standard entry for my domain with an alias for ‘localhost’. It read:
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 ourcommoninterest.org localhost localhost.localdomain
Evidently apache pays some attention to this hosts file but not much since it’s been resolving my domain name to the proper ip address all along and it’s only 127.0.0.1 to utils that run on the box.
mu is a util that runs on the box if it is using the curl lib to GET results from an url. So sam’s goodie, mu and bp were being told by the curl lib that my domain didn’t exist. That the url I have bbpres setup at was 404. The curl, thru the hosts file thought my ip address was 127.0.0.1
I went to tech support at my host and explained that I was using curl and getting 404s for valid urls on my domain. They explained that ‘well yah ya dummy’ the hosts file contains such and such and is returning so and so.
I changed my hosts file to the following and everything is happy now.
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
99.99.99.999 ourcommoninterest.org ourcommoninterest
The 99’s are obviously not my actual ip address. curl goes out and finds my domain and my ip address and purrs merrily along.
Don’t forget to keep the localhost line in there. Just add your ip/hostname to the list.
If you want to know *way* more than you care to about the linux hosts file just google ‘linux hosts file’.
Welcome to linux sysadmin 101. This is your first lesson Burt. Pay attention now.
(can I go back to hacking my theme up again?)
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@stix1972 again. I have no idea how shared hosting works. I don’t know that you *can* modify the /etc/hosts file at all. Maybe they won’t let you. I dunno. I get to play with whatever I want on my server because I got the whole thing to myself. Well, virtually to myself.
Anybody else running on a shared host and got forums up?
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…
Haha I used one of my three wishes to make it work, so I’ve got two left. Burt is my genie.
First things first. You need to use WPMU 2.7, BuddyPress RC1, and bbPress 1.0alpha6. Any other combination will result in a giant stress headache on your behalf for at least a few days.
To address part 1: When you say that you haven’t gotten the forums to work flawlessly, are you speaking of integration, or alone? Obviously the first thing we need to have is a fully functioning bbPress installation before we can attempt to integrate them together.
To address part 2: That is bizarre. When you say closed, do you mean the topic is marked as closed, or that when you submit the post that it just refreshes the page immediately back to the main front page?
The BuddyPress forums are currently running the most stable version of bbPress in the 0.9 branch. The alpha’s have gone through some growing pains in the past few months, mostly due to pressure to make integration work with the rapidly changing WordPress.org updates. bbPress and BuddyPress are both going to get some major super mega awesome momentum this year however, so the next few weeks are going to be pretty fun.
I beat you by 4 minutes. Too slow!
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