Im integrating my second wp and bb site and this time around it seems there are some easier steps only I cant get this setup to work. I can login to the WP side fine. But when i login from bb side it just redirects to the forum homepage. It will login the person on the wp side but not let them do a thing on the bb side.
I dont have admin access until wipe out the theme and clear the cookies. its very strange.
I followed all steps correctly in the writeup. any help would be much appreciated.
here is what my bb-config file looks like
require_once('/path/to/blog/wp-blog-header.php');
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘db’); // The name of the database
define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘user’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘pswd’); // …and password
define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few
define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old bb-config.php does
define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them
// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here
define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );
define(‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);
// Change BB_SECRET_KEY to a unique phrase. You won’t have to remember it later,
// so make it long and complicated. You can visit https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm
// to get a phrase generated for you, or just make something up.
// If you are integrating logins with WordPress, you will need to match the value
// of the “SECRET_KEY” in the WordPress file wp-config.php
define(‘BB_SECRET_KEY’, ‘secretkeydotcom’); // Change this to a unique phrase.
// If you are running multiple bbPress installations in a single database,
// you will probably want to change this.
$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!
// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BB_LANG to ‘de’
// to enable German language support.
define(‘BB_LANG’, ”);
/* Stop editing */
if ( !defined(‘BB_PATH’) )
define(‘BB_PATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );
require_once( BB_PATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );
$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.site.com/blog/’;
// that’s your WordPress URL, not bbPress
$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.site.com/blog/’;
// almost always the same as siteurl unless you tinker
$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’;
// should almost always be wp_ unless you tinkered
$bb->user_bbdb_name = ‘db’;
// this is the MYSQL database name for *WordPress*
// you can copy it right out of WordPress !
$bb->user_bbdb_user = ‘user’;
// this is the MYSQL user name for *WordPress*
// you can copy it right out of WordPress !
$bb->user_bbdb_password = ‘pswd’;
// this is the MYSQL password for *WordPress*
// you can copy it right out of WordPress !
$bb->user_bbdb_host = ‘localhost’;
// 99.9% of the time it’s going to be localhost, unless you are on DreamHost or some other weird ISP
$bb->custom_user_table = ‘wp_users’;
// 99.9% of the time it’s going to be wp_users
$bb->custom_user_meta_table = ‘wp_usermeta’;
// 99.9% of the time it’s going to be wp_usermeta
$bb->authcookie = ‘wordpress_randomnumbers’;
// in theory you should be able to leave this out
// but this is going to be copied from WordPress cookie
// this *must* match the WordPress setting
// do NOT use the 1234567 part, use your own cookiehash from WordPress – see the note at the very bottom
$bb->cookiedomain = ‘.site.com’;
// note the leading DOT – this is important
// this *must* match the WordPress setting
$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;
// I *highly* recommend you set the cookie path to /
// this *must* match the WordPress setting
$bb->sitecookiepath = ‘/’;
// I *highly* recommend you set the cookie path to /
// this *must* match the WordPress setting
//tried this – doesnt work with or without…ugh
$bb->usercookie = ‘wordpressuser_randomnumbers’;
$bb->passcookie = ‘wordpresspass_randomnumbers’;
