The documentation is out of date, basically.
I have to disagree there, chrisgoat
I have WordPress in /blog and bbPress in /forums and I have had WordPress on my site for a couple years before integration.
I did set my cookies to all be treated as from root, mind you, but I do that for both bbPress and WordPress, and it works fine.
Whew! I was worried (about those keys).
Which bb 1 are you using? Alpha 6? I have it working on the trunk build right now but it was fine on 1.0-alpha6
circuit – Try TextWrangler ( http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ ) instead of textEdit on a Mac. It’s MUCH better and handles my php files perfectly.
Also it’s free 
bardthebowman – The KEYs are named AUTH etc on WP but BB_AUTH on bb, right?
The only WP plugin I ‘ported’ to BB was bad-behavior, which was as simple as taking that plugin’s blank template, slapping a bbpress plugin header to the top, and praying. Seems to work. You’d have to reverse engineer something as complex as wp-super-cache.
frooyo, thank you. That was (to me) helpful and explanatory.
My guess is that until bbPress stops being used as WordPress’s forum of choice, it will continue to have a future. At that point, worry.
Mrphs. Please don’t make those auth key values public again. They should be kept secret.
Also: Your second link is broken.
Anyway. Shared login depends on those keys, see, so the fact that they’re not working (even though the DB tables are pulling the right info around) is because the keys probably aren’t right. That or the cookie settings are wrong. Are you using the integration speedup? That is you pasted info into your bb-config.php file?
The value for AUTH_KEY in wp-config.php should be the same as the value for BB_AUTH_KEY in bb-config.php and so on and so forth.
> An employee only has to report his results to his employer
Yes, and so what? I’m asking is he employee or not
That information is confidential in many states. No one is required to tell someone who they work for, even for insurance (your insurance has the right to turn you down due to lack of trust in that case, but still). As such, that question can be dismissed as ‘not your business’, pardon me for the crudity
So here’s my question for you. Towards what end will you go with the information of Sam’s employment? If you find out that yes, he is an Automattic employee and assigned to bbPress, will that make you react differently than if you found out, say, he was assigned to bbPress, WordPress and was asked to fill in at Akismet?
Basically this: Why does it matter who he works for?
If you’re asking ‘Why is bbPress development so slow?’ you could just ask that and anyone would tell you: There are few developers working on it at the moment. Cause the only other question I can find is like when you watch Survivor, and the Jury person says ‘My question for the finalists is that you suck.’ While entertaining to watch, it’s not a question. 
Dump all your cookies and cache. If you’re using Firefox, you can actually leave your cookies open while browsing, so with that open, log back into WP.
Make a note of your cookies.
Log in to BB. See if the cookies have the same name. You should have about 6 or so called wordpress_LONGSTRING and if you look at those cookies, the folder locations will be / or /forums or /blog etc etc. If they’re NOT the same cookie name, then you have missmatched AUTH keys in your forum.
Hmm. Okay, we need some people with translations on bbPress (alone, no WP/WPMU integration) to give us their results. This could just be the bbPress translation, or it may be due to the integration, but until we test it both ways, it’s hard to say. I don’t use a translation so I can’t really poke around that for you 
*LOL!* It’s always good to state, up-front, what you’ve done before That way people know and don’t give you useless answers like I did!
Have other buddyPress language translations had the same problem?
_dan_ – buddyPress already has a French language mod. Have you tried that? I’m not sure why the prefs would be overwritten, but I think it’s the integration, whcih means it may be a buddyPress forum question.
https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/french-france-fr_fr/
johnjamesjacoby, you see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear. I predict no less than 10 people will read this post and think I’m being bitchy. I’m not, but I can’t help what you want to see and hear.
Close your eyes and pretend _ck_ said all that with a bright smile and a sympathetic attitude, if it helps. But those are the facts.
Example: Calling sam ‘your majesty’ and other similar titles sounded smarmy to me, and really insulting to a developer giving his time to a free product. But. I decided that I was wrong with that assumption and chose to ignore any feeling of ‘attitude’ I caught from wiseacre, or you, because you were probably frustrated with the lack of development of a product you dig. And you’re venting. Which is perfectly fine.
Beta products, baby products, aren’t for sissies (note: NOT calling you a sissy!). They break, they’re poorly supported because more time is spent developing than helping. Have patience. Have faith. Offer help. Go through the trac tickets and suggest solutions if you know of them, or offer more information (i.e. I could reproduce this by doing the hokey pokey on v 1.0-a6). _ck_ has certainly done that, which is why, for her dedication and perseverance, she’s a forum mod.
Banging away and complaining it’s not done yet isn’t endearing and it’s not really polite either. It causes dev burn out, because who wants to write product for people who don’t appreciate the work?
So yes, Matt! “Developers, Developers, Developers!”
ganzua – While documenting the unstable may appear useful, it’s a stone cold mother to realize, six months later, that all your work was for nothing, because things were re-written. In order to discourage burnout, never have the tech writers start until you have it baked.
What part isn’t working?
If you login to bbPress, what happens on WordPress? What happens when you log out?
Please be descriptive. “It doesn’t work” is near impossible to debug (I spent my day arguing that there is a difference between ‘The page gave me a 404 error’ and ‘your webserver is broken!’ and the latter was nearly useless to me)
Can you get to it if you go directly to the admin site?
http://yourdomain.com/bbpress/bb-admin
It’s possible that you didn’t set up user integration correctly, and you are no longer the admin of your bbPress site.
Emails should have been fixed in #1004 (tested and I can change them just fine on 1.0a6-trunk).
I had thought we made one about the website, but … hrm. #1038 is opened.
You have three possible answers to who ‘someone’ was.
1) You (unlikely)
2) Your client (who figured out how to screw himself up – always a possibility)
3) Someone else using unauthorized methods (be they hacks or using a computer you didn’t fully log off of)
I think that’s pretty much it… Speaking as one who has served her time on Hell Desk, the simplest reason why is usually the right one.
You don’t.
WP of 2.5 means you use BB .9 so I assume 2.4 is the same. They changed a lot between 2.5 and 2.7 with logins.
Sorry.
The only time I saw mrc2407’s error was when my KEY strings weren’t actually matched up. After I dumped all cookies and repasted from WP into BB, it magically started working.
I’m of the ‘better safe than sorry’ variety of nerd.
By ‘changing your password’ I mean all of ’em.
your ftp password
your cpanel password (if they’re not the same)
your email password (ditto)
your SQL db password to that DB
your WordPress/bbPress password
anything else you use on this site
Yeah, pain in the ass. But again, safer vs sorrier. This all could be one colossal typo of yours that you forgot, or what have you. But if you’re worried it was a hack, then you do what needs doing to stop it cold turkey.
OK I will change all passwords but no one else knew them anyway so if someone was able to get into the system somehow won’t they be able to do it again?
Depends on how they got your password. Also, always use SFTP and SSH to edit your site. Cleartext passwords is bad.
It’s a bit late for it, but you could have checked the ‘last edited’ timestamp on that file.
As is, check your bbPress (and WP if integrated) for any users with weird access levels. See if anything else is weird. Change your passwords, too.
