[camperadmin]

Hi All,

(Newbie) I just installed bbPress and elected to integrate with WordPress, no problem initially. I then did something stupid, I saw a path name http://www.mysite.com/forum/forum/… and thought I had created a nested set of folders with the same name in my directory. It actually was the name of the first forum. So–I deleted the installation and the corresponding page in WP and then recreated the directory, installed the files, created the page again and this time, I could not get past step one of the installation. As soon as I click step 2 it goes to my root domain. I assume that there is now an entry in the wp database for the path and I can not change it. When I try to load that page, I get the login page, however it lacks the theme but does have the description I have in the original install (so that data survived my delete) and when I click submit I get a 404 page. I don’t know what to do to reset things. Please help!!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I am sure that I am doing something wrong here.

This is the vhost for the domain :

server {



listen   80;

server_name  mydomain.com;

rewrite ^/(.*) http://www.mydomain.com/$1 permanent;



}



server {



listen   80;

server_name www.mydomain.com;



access_log /home/public_html/mydomain.com/log/access.log;

error_log /home/public_html/mydomain.com/log/error.log;



location / {



root   /home/public_html/mydomain.com/public/;

index  index.php index.html;



# Basic version of WordPress parameters, supporting nice permalinks.

# include /usr/local/nginx/conf/wordpress_params.regular;

# Advanced version of WordPress parameters supporting nice permalinks and WP Super Cache plugin

include /usr/local/nginx/conf/wordpress_params.super_cache;

}



# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000

#

location ~ .php$ {

fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

fastcgi_index index.php;

include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/public_html/mydomain.com/public/$fastcgi_script_name;

}

}

I have added the rewrite rules for bbPress in /usr/local/nginx/conf/bbpress_params.regular

Now where should I add include /usr/local/nginx/conf/bbpress_params.regular; in my vhost file?

[John James Jacoby]

Here is what worked for me, on my WPMU sub-domain setup. (Sam, when you go through this, I understand that bbPress stores the salts in the DB and that they aren’t needed here, but for some reason I just feel better inside knowing I put them there the same as they are in wp-config.php )

2:05pm eastern time – UPDATE: I have confirmed these settings work on both WPMU subdomain and subdirectory installs. All logins/logouts, cookie clears, posting, and admin panel access works 100%.

WordPress MU is installed on the domain root, bbPress is installed in a SUB-DIRECTORY called “support”

Terms

SUB-DIRECTORY = Name of directory that bbPress is installed in

HASH-FROM-FIREFOX = Cookie hash taken from pre-integrated login cookie

GENERATED = String generated by WordPress key/salt generator

bb-config.php

// DEEP INTEGRATION AT THE VERY TOP

// (Sam, I can see you shaking your head right now)

if ( !defined('ABSPATH') & !defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST') & !defined('BB_IS_ADMIN')) {

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);

include_once( '/absolute/path/to/domain.com/wp-blog-header.php' );

//unset($wp_object_cache);

header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");

header("Status: 200 All rosy") ;

}



// Typical database stuff - blah blah blah



define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

define('COOKIEHASH', 'HASH-FROM-FIREFOX' );



define('BB_AUTH_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('BB_NONCE_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('BB_AUTH_SALT', 'GENERATED');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'GENERATED');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'GENERATED');



$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;



// WordPress database integration speedup

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wordpress_mu_primary_blog_id = 1;

$bb->user_bbdb_name = '';

$bb->user_bbdb_user = '';

$bb->user_bbdb_password = '';

$bb->user_bbdb_host = '';

$bb->user_bbdb_charset = '';

$bb->user_bbdb_collate = '';

$bb->custom_user_table = '';

$bb->custom_user_meta_table = '';



// WordPress cookie integration speedup

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://domain.com'; // no trailing slash

$bb->wp_home = 'http://domain.com'; // no trailing slash

$bb->cookiedomain = '';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_HASH-FROM-FIREFOX';

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_HASH-FROM-FIREFOX';

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_HASH-FROM-FIREFOX';

$bb->admin_cookie_path = '/SUB-DIRECTORY/bb-admin';

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/SUB-DIRECTORY/bb-plugins';

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/SUB-DIRECTORY/my-plugins';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '';

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/wp-admin';

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/wp-content/plugins';

define('WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION', 1);

wp-config.php

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

define('COOKIEHASH', 'HASH-FROM-FIREFOX');



define('AUTH_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('NONCE_KEY', 'GENERATED');

define('AUTH_SALT', 'GENERATED');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'GENERATED');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'GENERATED');

[Sam Bauers]

Perhaps talk to the WordPress Chinese translation group… http://www.wpcng.com/

Raw POT files for each version are here… http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/pot/tags/

[the_Wish]

The bad quoting issue is fixed, it was caused by the move to the new esc_html() function from WordPress.

Here’s the quick fix. In bb-includes/functions.bb-formatting.php go to line 83 and replace:

$text = esc_html( $text );

with:

$text = wp_specialchars( $text, ENT_NOQUOTES );

Thanks for addressing this problem but the “fix” doesn’t change a thing for me unfortunately.

[johnhiler]

Super Cache would help for slow-updating forums… but if you get a lot of traffic, I don’t think it’d really end up caching very much? Blogs don’t get nearly as many updates, so I could see it being a lot more helpful there…

Anyway to answer your question, I haven’t seen a guide on converting WordPress plugins to bbPress ones… that would be really useful!

[Sam Bauers]

Try fudging it by adding a subdomain to the WordPress URLs in the WordPress Integration section.

I’m going to look at WPMU integration now to see what else might be up there.

[Sam Bauers]

The fix on the WordPress side is to remove these defines from wp-config.php:

define('COOKIEHASH', 'whatever');

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/wp-admin');

The plugin will be updated soon, but remove those if you are running WordPress standard (i.e. Non-WPMU)

[Sam Bauers]

There is now a fix in bbPress trunk for an associated issue where bbPress would not clear all wordpress_logged_in cookies that were generated by WordPress.

Seriously, my life is wasting away chasing WordPress cookies.

[John James Jacoby]

Something must be up with the trunk…

If I install bbPress in a sub folder of WordPress, what seems to happen regardless of my settings or fudges, is that the bbPress login cookie is dropped with a “Host: domain.com” and a login via WordPress drops a cookie with a “Domain: .domain.com”

I’ve matched the URL’s, used with and without the integration speedup short-cut, deep/shallow integration, etc… Basically I’ve tried wiggling the settings back and forth, to no avail.

I was actually going to start my integration screen casts, so I suppose this will wait until tomorrow. haha!

I was able to get a WordPress login to drop cookies like “Host: domain.com” but the cookies the integration plugin drops are still “Domain: .domain.com” (If it dropped “Host: domain.com”, or if bbPress knew to look for “Domain: .domain.com” I suspect they’d work just fine.)

Note: I swear this WAS working earlier last week, as I’ve integrated two sites successfully with login/logout working from either direction.

[Sam Bauers]

There is a problem with the integration plugin. Some code which was meant to distinguish between WordPress and WPMU is now failing.

I’ll have a new plugin out soon. When you upgrade the plugin, you will need to remove the settings it previously instructed you to use in wp-config.php and then check the admin page in WordPress for the new settings to use.

[Tynan Beatty]

Please excuse my previous longwindedness as it seems it was unnecessary. I just tested a site with WP in the base folder and bbP in a subfolder of WP, and a site with WP in a subfolder of the base folder with bbP in a subfolder of WP. Neither site needs anything added to either config file except that the 3 secret keys match between them (my nonce keys also match but that shouldn’t matter). It is also necessary to fill in the wp-admin’s bbPress Integration Plugin settings, and the bb-admin’s WordPress Integration settings.

On any sites I’ve tested where I have WP in a subfolder of the base folder, and bbP in a subfolder of the WP folder, bbP sets 2 logged_in cookies, one with a trailing / and one without, which poses a problem since WP doesn’t get rid of the one without a trailing / and thus WP cannot logout from bbP if the user logs in from bbP. After I made the change mentioned above to bb-settings.php and tested it on both sites mentioned I found both sites integrating as expected and the double logged_in cookie from bbP login was no longer a problem. That’s why I submitted the patch to Trac.

[Sam Bauers]

The bad quoting issue is fixed, it was caused by the move to the new esc_html() function from WordPress.

Here’s the quick fix. In bb-includes/functions.bb-formatting.php go to line 83 and replace:

$text = esc_html( $text );

with:

$text = wp_specialchars( $text, ENT_NOQUOTES );

[thegiancarlo]

I think I have come across a bug or something. Here is my problem. I can only sign into bbpress or wordpress at a time. I have no idea as to what could be causing it. By log in I mean access the Site Admin Dashboard of either.

[norights]

I was having the same troubles as the original poster. WordPress 2.8 and BBPress 1.0 RC2, whenever I logged into BBP I couldn’t log into WP without logging out of BBP first. All the settings matched in both configs and adding in the suggested code (be it from the WP plugin which gave me a COOKIEHASH, a COOKIE_DOMAIN, a SITECOOKIEPATH, and a COOKIEPATH or from the BBP integration page which gave me just a COOKIE_DOMAIN and a COOKIEPATH) didn’t change anything. I tried junsuijin’s suggestions and now when I log into one it logs me out of the other. Anybody know how to get this running properly?

[John James Jacoby]

I’m able to integrate WP2.8 and BBP1.0 without this.

The settings put out by the Integration plugin are not REQUIREMENTS, they are RECOMMENDED. Basically automated guesses based on your wordpress/bbpress configuration. I can’t say I’ve integrated any two sites in the exact same way, as the cookie and domain setups are almost always different between installs, so it requires some trial and error to get them lined up.

[Tynan Beatty]

Ok arturo84, make the changes Sam suggested by dropping the www from your cookie domain settings in each config, then put the Integration plugin code back into wp-config. In wp-config the Integration plugin recommends the following settings among others:

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/wp-admin');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

change SITECOOKIEPATH to match COOKIEPATH like this:

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

Then for the bb-config you should include the recommended integration speedups from the bottom of your bb-admin/options-wordpress.php page, and make sure that the cookiedomain doesn’t have www, and that both cookiepath and sitecookiepath are / as well:

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '/';

Then go into bb-settings.php (in the base bbpress folder). Look to line 768 if you have rc-2. Change line 768 from:

$bb->sitecookiepath = rtrim( trim( $bb->sitecookiepath ), " tnrx0B/" );

to this:

$bb->sitecookiepath = rtrim( trim( $bb->sitecookiepath ), " tnrx0B" );

$_bb_sitecookiepath = rtrim( trim( $bb->sitecookiepath ), " tnrx0B/" );

Notice the removed / before the ” and that you need to add the second variable below it as that variable is used to set the other cookie paths.

Upload the altered bb-settings.php over your current one and it should fix the problem. Please come back and let us know if it works for you too

peace~

[johnhiler]

This report sounds similar, although it sounds like they may have been using an earlier RC:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-mu-271-and-bbpress-10-rc-integration-problem

There was a solution linked from there … hope that points you in the right direction! There was also an integration guide someone created here:

http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress

Hope one of those helps!

[johnhiler]

Sometimes you can lose admin access during integration:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17417

Installing the plugin linked from that post usually restores access – try it out and let us know how it goes!

[thegiancarlo]

I managed to successfully install BBpress with wordpress integration. Every thing was going smoothly until both BBpress and WordPress repeatedly keep forgetting my password resulting in me having to reset it every time. Now i can’t get into the admin section of BBpress. I can only log in.

[johnhiler]

Hopefully we can leverage the WordPress theme directory code:

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

In the mean time, do you know of any extra themes beside the ones on bbshowcase?

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes

If we assemble a list of available themes, we’ll be all ready to go when the bbPress theme directory comes out eventually!

[Sam Bauers]

Does your site always have “www” in front of it?

In any case, try changing the COOKIE_DOMAIN in WordPress like so (note the dot in front of the domain):

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.site.com');

Also enter this value in bb-config on the bbPress side:

$bb->cookiedomain = '.site.com';

Doing this will log you out, but you should be able to just log back in.

[Arturo]

i’ve upgraded wp from 2.7.1 to 2.8, checked all the key for the cookie and

AUTH_KEY in wp-config is the same of BB_AUTH_KEY in bb-config, the same for SECURE_AUTH_KEY – BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY,

LOGGED_IN_KEY – BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY, NONCE_KEY – BB_NONCE_KEY.

i’ve installed and activated the plugin bbPress Integration 1.0-rc-2 configured with the url of bbpress (http://www.site.com/forums/) saved the option, copy/past in wp-config.php for the “code” in the box which is:

define(‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘e99db1aecc456188d6dc1ccc37528ff8’);

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.www.site.com’);

define(‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/wp-admin’);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

i’m able to login in bbpress side, and i see the cookie wordpress_e99db1aecc456188d6dc1ccc37528ff8 for /forums/bb-admin, /forums/bb-plugins, /forums/my-plugins, /wp-admin, /wp-content/plugins and /.

i’ve other 2 cookies bb-user-settings-1 and bb-user-settings-time-1 for /forums/bb-admin.

when i try to go in wp-admin i’m slogged from wp and 2 new cookies appear, wordpress_test_cookie.

when i try to login in WP side i’m redirected to the login page every time.

if i remove the code generated by the Sam’s plugin i can login but i’m logged out from bbpress…

how resolve this problem? thanks for the help.

[Sam Bauers]

We have bbPress physically located a subdirectory within WordPress.com (WPMU), you can call that “bbpress”. We do it this way because we point *.wordpress.com to the same host (well not exactly, but for the point of the example let’s say we do). Anyway, because on WordPress.com all blogs are given a subdomain, we need to intercept the forum subdomains and push them to the bbPress code before WPMU executes. That’s what this .htaccess code does.

You could do it without fewer rewrite rules if you didn’t use pretty permalinks.

[Sam Bauers]

I tend to use these terms and they are all potentially mutually exclusive, no one type of integration absolutely depends on the other although the first one generally requires the second one to work (99.9% of the time).

• Cookie integration – Sharing of login cookies with WordPress
• User database integration – Sharing of user data tables with WordPress
• Deep integration – Including the WordPress codebase (PHP) inside bbPress to allow use of WordPress functions inside bbPress