problems staying logged in, hey Options

[Andason]

i can never stay logged in for very long, even if i leave the site and come back i wont be logged in

whats up

[Coomer]

What browser and operating system are you on? Also, did this just start happening recently?

[Uppitycracker]

sounds like cookie settings

[Andason]

[doGGy]

Same here Coom, if i go straight to the forums (www.6gc.ne/forums) im loged off, BUT if i go back to the main page, and access the forums from the mail page im loged in... Im on IE if its maters...

[Celicaca]

same problem here.

[Coomer]

After class today I'll look into the problem further. Did this start happening as soon as the site was moved over to the new server?

[Uppitycracker]

hmmm probably un related but recently threads that I view dont come up as read.

[Guest_Jason_*]

I have the same logging in problem. Everytime I comeback, i'm logged out.

[Coomer]

This is so weird. I haven't touched the code that powers the forums, so the only thing I can think of is that it's something with the new host. However, it still works for many people(including me, which sucks because then I can't test the fixes I try easily), so I really don't know what to do.

I'll post on some Invision Board forums and see if I can figure out anything.

[Supersprynt]

It could be problem with cookies and their computers, no?

[Coomer]

[GeEkBoY]

count me in for that problem, started about 3 days ago.

[afroman]

same here 5 days now

[GeEkBoY]

just worked now, wtf?

[Coomer]

It's really odd, and I can't figure out what is going on. Maybe if all of you clear your cookies and try again, it'll be working now, but I'm really not sure.

[GeEkBoY]

seems to be working now???

[YellowTwo]

It never happened to me, but when doggy said it's only when he goes directly to 6gc.net/forums I tried that and I was not logged in.

I guess you should just go to 6gc.net then click on forums if you don't want to have to login every time.

[blkGT]

me 2. i cant stay logged in

[blkGT]

any go on this coomer? every 2 min i gotta log back in.

[kuya1284]

I'm experiencing this problem now as well here at work and at home. Like the others, whenever I go directly to http://www.6gc.net/forums, I'm not logged in. When I go to the main site first, then click forums, then I'm logged in.

The only thing that I can think of is that the code in the main 6gc.net index page is grabbing the cookie information. When going directly to the forums, cookie information isn't getting grabbed by the session handler.

[kuya1284]

I FOUND THE PROBLEM. This should be an easy fix.

When you enter

http://www.6gc.net/forums (WITHOUT THE TRAILING FORWARD SLASH)

you WILL NOT be logged in to the forums.

If you enter the following in the address bar:

http://www.6gc.net/forums/ (WITH THE TRAILING FORWARD SLASH)

you WILL be logged in.

This should be an easy fix, and may be something in the cfg file. Cooms... let me know if it works.

This post has been edited by kuya1284: Apr 23, 2004 - 12:41 AM

[Coomer]

I get auto-logged in regardless of whether I go to http://www.6gc.net/forums or http://www.6gc.net/forums/. It might have something to do with the request being redirected when going to http://www.6gc.net/forums though.

When someone goes to http://www.6gc.net/forums, the web server would interpret that as http://www.6gc.net/index.php?action=forums&itu= due to the mod_rewrite rules that I have in place in my .htaccess file. This is so that people can access things like member profiles by going to http://www.6gc.net/members/1.

However, I have a line before that rule which takes the url http://www.6gc.net/forums and redirects the user to http://www.6gc.net/forums/. This may be what is causing the problem, although since I can't duplicate the problem myself, it's next to impossible for me to fix.

[kuya1284]

[Coomer]

Very interesting...in IE6/Win2k I managed to come across the problem when going to the url without the trailing slash like you said. Hopefully it's an issue with my .htaccess file that's fixable, which I'll take a look at when I get to work today. I left my laptop there yesterday, and that computer has my login information for the server that 6G Celicas is running on. This computer doesn't have that information yet, since I just re-formatted a couple days ago.

If I can't figure it out, I'll send you the code for the .htaccess file. It's just that code, and then the Invision Board 1.2 Final code.

[kuya1284]

[kuya1284]

Cooms... I just noticed something else. When I go to

http://www.6gc.net/forums

I get redirected to

http://6gc.net/forums/


When I go to

http://www.6gc.net/forums/

I don't get redirected, as you stated above. Can you try changing the redirect in the index so that it goes to http://www.6gc.net/forums/ instead of http://6gc.net/forums/ ?