Need a bit of help with my install

[71Corvette]

Hello,

I'm having a bit of trouble getting this plugin to work on my page. As far as I can tell I've followed the setup instructions properly but no posts from my phpBB forum appear on my webpage - only the widget title "Last Topics Posts" shows up as shown in this screen shot:

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Here's my setup:

* I''m running WP 4.8.2 on a localholst. My theme is ColormagPro v2.2.0 (https://themegrill.com/wordpress-themes/)

* My forum is running phpBB 3.2.0 is live at www.forum.corvette-restoration.com

* I created a custom config.php file and saved it here "C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress02/wp-content/plugins/wp-w3all-config". This is also the absolute path I've used in the setup.

*I entered my forum URL in the setup as http://www.forum.corvette-restoration.com

* I've verified that the file page-forum.php is included in the directory \wp-content\themes\colormag-pro

* iframeResizer.contentWindow.min.js is in the phpbb root folder

* I made the phpBB-side changes regarding cookies and user names

* I edited overall_footer.html for my forum

* I named my blank page "forum" and clicked the button to recreate the template. When I navigate to "http://localhost/wordpress02/forum/" it loads and displays the complete homepage of my forum as shown in the screenshot below

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I'm at a bit of a loss and am unsure what I'm doing wrong. I'd certainly appreciate some help.

[axew3]

Hello, so:

I named my blank page "forum" and clicked the button to recreate the template. When I navigate to "http://localhost/wordpress02/forum/"

but you can't link a localhost install (as on url you report) with an online www site (domain).
So i assume that you've confuse reporting here a wrong url example?

Or all the rest is maybe subsequent that not work.
But i can't see what wrong, until you not set this online so i can check.

Create in case at http://www.corvette-restoration.com the blank WP page, and build page-forum.php via wp_w3all config, setting up on wp_w3all the name forum, for the template page (even if you copy paste the default addons/page-forum.php manually into your WP template folder it is required that on wp_w3all the name of the template is the same of the created blank wp page).

The WP phpBB iframed page as i can see, that not resize, simply not found the correct file about resizer, but again i can't see on console why it come out until not online, so i can check.

Before any further check about widget not showing, you may have to resolve these above.

To test on localhost, you need to install into your localhost the related phpBB to link. This plugin is x an integration domain/domain or domain/subdmain and not cross domain.

Your online case, is a subdomain install because your WP is at http://www.corvette-restoration.com/
while your forum is at http://forum.corvette-restoration.com/
and that's ok.
While you cannot link a localhost install with an online www domain, or different domains like mysite.com and mysite.org.

[71Corvette]

Thanks for the quick response. I'm completely redeveloping my website using Wordpress on a localhost but my forum is running live on my web server. It sounds like that may be creating the issue. I'll upload a test version of my new wordpress site on my web server to see if that resolves the issue.

I'll give that a shot and report back.

Thanks again.

[71Corvette]

I moved my forum to my localhost, updated the configuration file settings, and now the plugin is working great - the latest forum posts now show up on my Wordpress site.

However, now I'm not able to log into my wordpress admin panel. When I go to the wp-admin page and enter my username and password, I'm redirected to my homepage rather than the administration panel.

I've verified that I'm using the correct username and password, and that the admin username, password and e-mail is the same for both my wordpress site and my forum.

I've worked around the problem temporarily by commenting out the last page of the manual config file. However, that causes the plugin not to work.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

[axew3]

possibly these will solve:
1) are you using the wordpress/wp-login.php page? or a plugin or theme login page (that by the way should work in any case)
2) have you try to reset the pass, so login? Are you using the phpBB pass of the user, or the WP pass? Use phpBB pass until you not reset or update, and all should work.

[71Corvette]

Thanks again for the quick responses

possibly these will solve:
1) are you using the wordpress/wp-login.php page? or a plugin or theme login page (that by the way should work in any case)

Yes, I'm using the wp-login.php page. It's the default wordpress login page.

2) have you try to reset the pass, so login? Are you using the phpBB pass of the user, or the WP pass? Use phpBB pass until you not reset or update, and all should work.

I've reset the username and password for wordpress and the forum to be the same. If I manually deactivate the config file for WP phpBB I can successfully log into both my forum and my wordpress site using the same username and password.

As a test I logged into WP-admin and activated the WP phpBB plugin on the plugin page. As soon as I activated the plugin I got dumped out of the administration panel and redirected to my site's home page. I'm not able to log back into my wordpress site afterwards.