Hi,

Greetings.

I’m using WP 3.3.2, BuddyPress 1.55. New installation on http://www.mydomain.com (via softaculous) . Permalink Settings: Post name http://www.mydomain.com/sample-post/

I encountered a problem while installing ‘Site Wide Forums’ (bbPress plugin). I followed exactly all the steps at:-

http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/2/

But I got a blank page. I did setup the ‘Forums’ page during the initial installation, but when I tried to open the page http://www.mydomain.com/forums/ it says ‘The forums component has not been set up yet.’

I tried on my other hosting provider (Quickinstall), I encountered the ‘404 Not Found’ error message

Anyone has the similar problem?

Please help.

[@mercime Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

What could very well be causing your issue is that you used a webhost script to install WordPress in the first place and it could very well be causing issues with your BuddyPress installation – see https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#system-server where “WordPress should be installed manually i.e. via FTP, cpanel, etc. and NOT via webhost scripts which bring about numerous issues when BuddyPress is activated.”

[@orebian Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

Hello,

It doesn’t work as well. I tried buddypress 1.5.5 on another domain. This time I install WordPress 3.3.2 manually via FileZilla.

I still encountered the same problem while installing ‘Site Wide Forums’ (bbPress plugin).

This is my site – http://www.backpackventure.com/

When I load http://www.backpackventure.com/forums/ , the page says ‘The forums component has not been set up yet.’ (I already setup during the buddypress installation)

And I get a blank page for the forum I installed – http://www.backpackventure.com/forums/forum/discussion/

Anyone has the similar problem?

Please help.

[@mercime Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

Per instruction in BP Codex, add shortcode `[bbp-forum-index]` to Show the forum index/archive or any/mix of shortcodes posted at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
Go to dashboard Pages > All and click on “Forums” then add the shortcode/s you prefer.

Start creating forums in dashboard Forums > New Forum and add topic/s to forums.

[@orebian Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

Hello Mercime,

Thank you for your support. It works!

I added the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] to my ‘Forums’ page. At first the forum didn’t show up until I remove the ‘Forums’ as the selected page at “BuddyPress > Pages > Discussion Forums > -None-.

Is it suppose to look like this — http://www.backpackventure.com/forums/ ?

Now I’ve a message displayed at the top of WP, ‘The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Discussion Forums. Repair’

Guess I just ignore it?

Please advice.

[@mercime Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

Yes, that’s the way it’s supposed to look for a default install. As for the message, you can disregard/ignore that for the meantime – that would be resolved in next bbPress version.

[@orebian Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

@mercime: Thank you very much for your support. Appreciate it!