[dionak]

Hello,

I hope someone can offer advice. We are using VBSSO with Wordpress on a production server, after testing it on a development server, and it works fine on both of those.

Now, we have copied that production server--database and all--over to a third server to set up a new staging server. When we copied it, the links between the two systems, vBulletin and Wordpress, were still pointing to the 'www' versions of the blog and forum. We changed the URLs of the system to start with 'staging', but we ended up Removing the link in the vBulletin VBSSO options panel, and deleting the 'vbsso' database entries in the wp_options table, because the links would not work to log in.

Now the problem: when we try to re-establish a connection between the staging forum and the staging Wordpress, we just get an error page, but the space after label 'Error:' was blank. (We know it's connecting, because we have the staging server under basic authentication, and if we don't put the correct username/password in the Connect a Platform panel, we get a "401 Authorization Required" error message in that spot.)

Even though it says there is an error, and no connection is listed on the vBulletin side of vBSSO, options for mapping our custom vB usergroups to Wordpress roles then appear in the Wordpress side settings for vBSSO, and vbsso entries are recreated in the wp_options table. We still can't login to Wordpress through the vBulletin link, either. (We can get to Wordpress admin by going directly to wp-login.php and using a pre-link admin account created in Wordpress.)

Any help would be greatly appreicated.