I just went to add a bbpress forum to a site I upgraded from 2.3.3 to 2.5. On step 2 of the bbpress install, it requests a "cookie secret key" which is supposedly in my wp-config.
I don't see a secret key there so what am I supposed to do?
"This value must match the value of the constant named "SECRET_KEY" in your WordPress wp-config.php file. This will replace the bbPress cookie secret key set in the first step."
FYI - I tried creating a secret-key according to what I read which lets me finish the install of bbPress however when I try to log in to wordpress I can't. In fact, I get a message saying that I don't have permissions!
When I remove my invented secret key, I can login like normal...
my question is what happens to bbPress when I remove the key from wp-config?
I don't have one either. And I am totally perplexed as to where you found documentation about creating one. My wp-config has no such animal and my bbpress install is blocked. I'm stopped until I get my mind around this one. HELP!
Scott
scott@scottnoon.com
You need to create the Secret Key in your WordPress config.
Read the WordPress Codex for more info.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Secret_key_for_salting_password
When I added the key to wp-config it wouldn't let me login into the wp admin either. What I had done was put the define() line at the end thinking that would work. I moved it up under the other define() line instead of the very end and the permissions problem went away.
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