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Can't simultaneously be logged in on both WP and forum

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi.
    First of all, thank you for the great forum.
    I've used the other forums but I think bbPress is the best way to integrate with WP.

    The integration worked fine. I can use my WP account to login and post on the forum.
    But I can't login on both WP and forum simultaneously.

    If I logged into the WP, then visit the forum, WP automatically signs me out. Same thing happens vice versa.

    Is there a way to be logged in on both WP and forum simultaneously?

    Thank you for your help.

    NOTE: I've just noticed that I can switch fine between WP admin page and the forum. But somehow I cannot post on WP for comments unless if I log in, but then forum automatically signs me out as soon as I log in with WP comment area.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I fixed it.
    It wasn't simple, and honestly, I really hope that the integration with WP was a basic feature, not an option. Otherwise, it's the best forum for WP-enabled website so far, and I'm so glad that I installed it.

    The following steps are what I did, and might have unnecessary steps, but whatever made it work, made it work. I'll also assume that you have followed the integration steps that involves matching keys of config files. I would also assume that you have used the correct keymakers for the bbPress version.
    bbPress 0.9: http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/
    bbPress 1.0: http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

    1. Install the "bbPress Integration" plugin for WP. Set up everything accordingly until you see the "Manual Cookie Settings". It told me to add "define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );" on wp-config.php, but it didn't work. I had to remove / for the path because I read it somewhere that if you add /, it'll add an extra /, making it // for the cookie path with is invalid. So I added "define( 'COOKIEPATH', '' );" instead, above the "AUTH_KEY" section in wp-config.php.

    2. I've added the following lines above the ?> part in the end of the bb-config.php :
    $bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;
    $bb->cookiepath = '';
    $bb->sitecookiepath = '';

    This tip can be found in other tutorials, but notice that again, I took out / for the path.

    3. In WP Settings -> Writing, I've enabled XML-RPC.

    4. In bbPress Settings -> Writing, I've enable XML-RPC.

    5. I've cleared the cookies of the browsers (IE and FF).

    Everything should work as it is. At least it did for me.
    Now I can simultaneously be logged in for WP and bbPress without any problems.

    I really hope that one day, either from bbPress settings or a one simple plugin would resolve the problems that some of us had.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    wow, complex.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Thank you so much for sharing these details! I've been searching all over the forums, and this is the only set of instructions I found that actually worked. Step 1 wasn't enough for me, and I had already done Step 3. My site finally worked after completing Step 2, so I think that was the key to making it all work.

    Again, thanks for sharing! You made my afternoon of coding so much easier.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Thanks very much, it actually fixed a bug that didn't let me access the bbPress dashboard (redirected to forum index), even if I appeared logged-in in both WP and BB, and could access WP dashboard also.

    Now instead with a single login can access all WP, bbPress index, WP dashboard and bbPress dashboard.

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