[@kenburcham Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

Resolved:

Here was the problem (this is probably a bug).

At the apache level we are requiring ssl on the server I’m installing bbpress on.

When I login as the admin user, it sets the cookie in “auth” not “secure_auth” mode, but then when it goes to check for the admin cookie, it checks “secure_auth” mode because the connection is https.

the workaround was to add:

define (‘BB_FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true);

to my bb-config.php file. Log out and log in. Then the admin cookie is set in a way that it can be correctly validated.

Now I can login as admin.