phpBB integration
By Max Sarte on Thursday, 05 June 2014
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Hi,
I am curious to know what exactly does that Komento-phpBB integration accomplish. My guess is that if they are integrated, they share logins/userID information from users so that a user need to register only one on either system. But I can't find this information anywhere.
Also, in the settings where the phpBB path is required, in what format does this path needs to be for a Windows box and a Unix box?
Hello Max,

The phpbb-komento integration is actually integrate the profile. Hence, the profile link you click in Komento comment will be directed to phpbb profile and also the avatar will use the phpbb avatar. As in the phpBB path, you need to fill in the path that lead to where PHPBB's config.php file is located. Say if the config is located at /nameofforum/config.php, then path is just "nameofforum" without leading slashes.

Hope this helps.
Nik Faris
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Thursday, 05 June 2014 09:19
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Thank you for your answer, however, it does not work.
My test setup is on a LAN and I am using Xampp on a separate computer (Dell-pc). If it works here, then I'll move it to the production environment.
The absolute path to phpBB is:
\\Dell-pc\xampp\htdocs\PHPBB3012c
The absolute path to Joomla is:
\\Dell-pc\xampp\htdocs\R03-2014

Once Xampp is fully operational, Joomla and phpBB can be accessed from a regular browser at the following addresses respectively:
192.168.1.40/R03-2014
192.168.1.40/PHPBB2012c

As far as I understand, the Profile Settings must be set-up as follows:

Name Type = Registered Name
Integration = PHPBB
Path to PHPBB = XXXX
PHPBB URL = http://192.168.1.40/PHPBB3012c

I have tried the following paths (an many backslash and forward slash permutations) in XXXX without any success:

PHPBB2012c
htdocs\R05-2014
xampp\htdocs\R05-2014
\\Dell-pc\xampp\htdocs\R05-2014

Every single time when I tried to login into Komento to post a comment with a UID/PWD available *only* in phpBB, I get the following error message in Joomla:
"Warning" "Username and password do not match or you do not have an account yet."
I am 300% the UID/PWD in phpBB are indeed correct.

Does this means that Komento is not retrieving UID/PWD from the phpBB database and it cannot do so?

Tx!
Max Sarte
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Friday, 06 June 2014 09:39
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Hello Max,

Sorry for the late reply. We need to debug your site to identify the issue. Can you upload your site to any temp server so we can test it from here? Please advise.
Nik Faris
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Monday, 09 June 2014 10:18
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