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1. sepidol
   Member

   i just solved my login cookie issue after one night debugging...
   i found these things:
   - by default, wpmu generate auth_cookie as "wordpress", but bbpress generate as "wordpress_xxxxx(hash)"

   - wpmu not using "database secret" for cookie hashing, but it use the SECRET_SALT constant defined in the wp-config.php, bbpress using "database secret". so the cookie result will never be the same.

   you need to update your bb-config.php file to meet these situations.
   assumed you've successfully install wpmu + bbpress, then edit your bb-config.php and add these line:

   define('BB_SECRET_KEY', 'yourreallysecretkey');
   define('BB_SECRET_SALT', 'yourreallysecretsalt');

   $bb->authcookie = 'wordpress';
   $bb->cookiedomain = '.yourdomain.com';
   $bb->cookiepath = '/';
   $bb->sitecookiepath = '';

   and try to login... voila.. you can switch to bbpress and wpmu without re-login... :)

   good luck,

   --
   rh

   Posted 3 months ago #

2. sepidol
   Member

   my mistake,
   make sure your BB_SECRET_KEY and BB_SECRET_SALT value on your bb-config.php are the same with SECRET_KEY and SECRET_SALT value on your wp-config.php

   cheers,

   --
   rh

   Posted 3 months ago #

3. sambauers
   Key Master

   Actually, the bbPress secret can live in the database. But you are right that the WPMU one cannot, mostly for login compatibility between blogs within WPMU.

   Obviously you should choose your own secret and salt values, not the one's given above.

   Posted 3 months ago #

4. tdjcbe
   Member

   Thanks for this. It fixed our issue with the login cookies.

   Posted 2 months ago #

5. caesarsgrunt
   Member

   Thank you so, so much, sepidol! You've made my day! I've spent hours trawling the bbPress and WPMU forums for this...

   For what it's worth, my problem was the SECRET_SALT. I'd done everything else right, but each time I logged into either bb or wp I was logged out of the other 'cause of the cookie value being encrypted differently... I thought the salt may have been the problem, but I wasn't quite sure what it did. This is the first thread I've found which even mentions it!

   Thanks...
   Caesar

   Posted 1 month ago #

6. matjack1
   Member

   thank you!!

   works also for me! :-P

   Posted 1 month ago #

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