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Repeatedly Sign In's
I have a problem with my forum wich is that I ( and everyone else ) have to sign in on and off all the time. Let's say I'm signed in and want to take a peek at for example, the categories. The forum signs me off and want me to sign in again, back to discussions and hit the categories tab again only to find myself to be signed out again.
Same thing when posting, I have to redo everything I've typed in and this happens all the time, no matter what I do.
I'm a Firefox user and I guess Firefox handles cookies in a somewhat different way than Internet Explorer ( wich doesn't sign me off , by the way ). Sure I could use IE instead but since I'm a Firefox user I'd like to use that instead of IE because I use FF for everything I do on the net.
Help please! Anyone know why my forum behaves in this way?
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If I sign in today, and then come back tomorrow to this computer, i'm still logged in. However, if I log in today at work, go home, log in there and then come back to my work computer tomorrow, i'm logged out at my work computer.
The latter was done by design. At least, that's what I've read on the boards from Mark (iirc).
So, I'm guessing it's either your browser settings, or your server. Because it isn't vanilla. I say settings because I know Firefox in it's default config seems to have no problems with these same 3 installations.
Just a thought. Though I could be waaaaay off base.
(again, I haven't looked at the sign in/session/cookie/user code in general.)
From the docs I just skimmed, it looks like the point of sessions is to avoid cookies so I'd guess that it's probably the server.
There's several settings related to sessions that are in the php.ini file on the server, so that could be messing things up.
The session cache defaults to 180 (minutes??) so you could throw a page on the server and check to see what they are:
Maybe they are set to something low? I dunno, I'm guessing.
That sounds like you've got your cookie domain set up incorrectly or you need to nuke your existing cookies on your domain.
What do you have assigned as the Cookie Domain on your "Application Settings" form?
Everyone else: It sounds to me like they're browser-specific. So what are your security settings?
web path to vanilla: www.b-fest.com/forum/
cookie domain: www.b-fest.com/forum/
I've cleared all b-fest.com cookies from my browser, problem still exists.
.b-fest.com/forum/