Title: Forums
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Forums

 *  [chriswilliams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriswilliams/)
 * (@chriswilliams)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-3-2/)
 * I am very new to this…
    I thought i saw somewhere that wordpress offers forum
   software al la vbulletin. Is this correct? If so where is the link to it? If 
   it is no so then do you have a reccomendation of one that works well?
 * Thanks

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-3-2/#post-903008)
 * yes – it’s BBPress which also integrates with the wordpress database if you desire
   that so you only have one log in for both.
    [http://bbpress.org/](http://bbpress.org/)
 *  Thread Starter [chriswilliams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriswilliams/)
 * (@chriswilliams)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-3-2/#post-903014)
 * Great thanks so much. is it a wordpress product or is it created by someone else?
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-3-2/#post-903019)
 * no – it is a wordpress product – support forums are great, too.
 * Here is a test install I did a while back to check out the integration
    [http://comeuphither.com/forums/](http://comeuphither.com/forums/)
 *  Thread Starter [chriswilliams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriswilliams/)
 * (@chriswilliams)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-3-2/#post-903058)
 * is that the out of the box install? If so it look great!
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-3-2/#post-903061)
 * yea – with the default theme installed – pretty slick
 *  Thread Starter [chriswilliams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriswilliams/)
 * (@chriswilliams)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-3-2/#post-903269)
 * So I have given this a try. I copied the content of the bbpress folder to my 
   domain_name.com/forum. I then navigate to this folder and I get an install screen.
   I get the following error message: There doesn’t seem to be a bb-config.php file.
   This usually means that you want to install bbPress.
 * I try to go through a setup but I never get there. I am not sure what to really
   do. I also tried to rename the bb-config-sample.php to bb-config.php to see if
   the same would run but then i get another error.
 * Is there a link to setup instructions?
 *  Thread Starter [chriswilliams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriswilliams/)
 * (@chriswilliams)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-3-2/#post-903272)
 * I have been poking around through the forums and it seems I need to create a 
   database first, or use one that exists… Is this correct? This is where I am stuck,
   which is the begining [http://www.vuuch.com/forum/bb-admin/install.php?step=1](http://www.vuuch.com/forum/bb-admin/install.php?step=1).
 * Should I use my wordpress database? and the wordpress user id? Or am i better
   to create a new database? I have notes about the wordpress database but what 
   file would I be looking for? In my notes I have i wrote the the db was at a link
   like this [http://gmpg.org/xfn/11&#8230](http://gmpg.org/xfn/11&#8230); Does 
   this mean it is not on my hosting account?
 * Thanks
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-3-2/#post-903273)
 * you will either need a new database or be sure the bb-config.php table prefix
   is different than wordpress (which it is by default).
    Also, if you have wp-config.
   php at closer to root level than bbpress, it won’t let you install. You will 
   need to temporarily rename your wp-config.php and do the bbpress install.
 * Any further questions should really be taken to the bbpress forums.

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forums-3-2/#post-903273)
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