akismet says my API key is invalid, why?

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maphew
Member

Hi All,

When I go to "bbpress dashboard > Content > Akismet Spam" I'm told "The API key you have specified is invalid. Please double check the $bb->akismet_key variable in your config.php file. If you don't have an API key yet, you can get one at WordPress.com."

Which I've checked and double-checked. I'm positive I'm putting the same string in that I see when I login to http://wordpress.com/profile/
When I check my wordpress blog, running on a different host and different domain from bbpress, the same key is there and wp reports the akismet plugin is working.

Another post from 6 months ago said replacing single quotes with double quotes in config.php fixed the problem for them. Doesn't work for me though. http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/146?replies=4

I'm running bbpress 0.8.1 on Sourceforge.net.

Any ideas what's wrong?
thanks!

-matt

Posted 1 year ago #
Trent
Moderator

What exactly do you have for syntax in config.php (replacing your number with 12345678) ?

Trent

Posted 1 year ago #
drmike
Member

I think sourceforge.net blocks all outbound PHP calls.

Posted 1 year ago #
maphew
Member
Trent:
```
$bb->akismet_key = '12345678'; // Example: '0123456789ab'
```
but I think drmike might be right.
Posted 1 year ago #
Trent
Moderator

It sure looks that way doesn't it.

Trent

Posted 1 year ago #

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