Logging in to WP 2.5 logs me out of bbPress 0.9.0.1, and vice-versa.

Cookie information with bbPress .9

name: wordpress_613ba28cb41760cadf1f08a898f98620

contents: xxxx%7C1208969840%7C594bfc5f83a1e8af5dd70d130d4c0b89

website: coloradoboards.com

path: /appleswitcher/wp/

date: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 10:57:19 AM

Cookie information with WP 2.5

name: wordpress_613ba28cb41760cadf1f08a898f98620

contents: xxxx%7C1208969965%7Cba3e6d706d0ec0feff73e34afde5d9f0

website: coloradoboards.com

path: /appleswitcher/wp/

date: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 10:59:23 AM

…where xxxx is a not my username… just using that for security.

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Is the secret different between WordPress and bbPress? I’m not sure how this works, but, I’m “willing to learn“.

[@sambauers Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

I notice a long expiration date, so I assume you checked the “remember me” option in both instances. Does it happen when you don’t check “remember me”?

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Fourteen days is long? Or you get 14 days when you click the “remember me”? What is the default length for the cookie when you don’t click “remember me”?

[@intellivision Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Same behavior when I don’t check “remember me”. Logging in one logs me out of the other.

Note: I just today moved the site from a dev area at

coloradoboards.com/appleswitcher/wp/

to

appleswitcher.com/wp/

so further cookie path examples will reflect that.

[@fooddude Member 16 years, 8 months ago]

I have the same problem with 2.5 and .9.01. Driving me crazy logging back in every time I switch. Yes, remember me is checked, and it’s happening on multiple browsers. Cookies are working fine for me everywhere else.

[@sambauers Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

OK, so it looks like you have matched the domains and paths correctly. Have you matched the bbPress “BB_SECRET_KEY” in bb-config.php to the WordPress “SECRET_KEY” in wp-config.php?

Do the secrets stored in each database match?

In bbPress it is the “secret” meta_key for topic “0” in bb_topicmeta.

In WordPress it is the “secret” meta_key in the wp_options table.

(Keep in mind that the cookie contents aren’t meant to be the same as they are hashed against the login time.)

[@fooddude Member 16 years, 8 months ago]

Doh! Secrets stored in the database didn’t match. Edited and now everything works fine. Not sure how that happened, but thanks!