Hi all,
The issue you’re having has to do with the fact that the plugin assumes your phpBB tables are located in the same database as your wordpress tables. If you’re phpBB database is located separately from wordpress database (like mine is), then the plugin’s query to update the phpBB’s authentication won’t work. (and thus the wordpress options page won’t “save” or say “ok” for the ‘auth’…)
Have no fear. There is a solution. You can change the authentication manually in two ways. First, from your forum’s Admin Ctrl Panel (ACP), you can find Client Communication –> Authentication, and choose wpbb from the drop down menu (it will be an option after you move the auth_wpbb file into the ‘{forum root}/includes/auth’ directory). Alternatively, you can run this query on your forum’s database –> UPDATE phpbb_config SET config_value = ‘wpbb’ WHERE config_name = ‘auth_method’
In both cases, you have to understand that since the plugin does not understand your forum is in a separate database, it will not be able to “save” or indicate “ok” in the plugins’ options page in wordpress. But that’s ok. The important step was to set forum’s authentication mode, which is already done. So now it should work.
To summarize, here’s a basic outline of how to make this thing work (assuming you’re starting from fresh wordpress and phpBB installations):
1. install the plugin and activate in wordpress.
2. click on “install files in phpbb” – after clicking this, i would check to see that the two files were copied to the forum’s directory correctly. there’s only two files that need to be moved over. a) /root/common.php (which replaces the forum’s common.php) and b) auth_wpbb (described above)
2b. click on save changes in wordpress to make sure file path for the forum is right, e.g. “forum/”
3. change phpbb authentication mode (described above)
4. that’s it.
