Is this normal?

ksaetern · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

First of all, I just wanted to say this is an awesome mod!

I installed a beta version of my forum on a subdomain and everything is fine. I tested everything out and it was great. The advance mod rewrite mod worked out great.

Just recently I switched it over to a domain name. Now there is a problem with the session id.

When its not logged in everything is ok. The link would somewhat be like this:

http://webtalklounge.com/index.html
http://webtalklounge.com/general-marketing-f14.html

After I log in. I am getting urls to be like:
http://webtalklounge.com/general-marketing-f14.html?sid=94dff9506bf1aa5c2c11934c7f51b9c8

Is that normal? I don't know much about sessions and what cause this to happen. Oh and on another note, I also have Cyber alien guest sessions mod installed.

Any help would be appreciated.

tweety · PR0 Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 94

yes this is normal, it is the cookie working properly when you first log in. notice it goes once you click another of your forum links.

dcz · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:19 am Post subject: Re: Is this normal?

And welcome Very Happy

I confirm the guest sessions mod is working great, you'll only see SID after you've logged in, in acp, or after you've followed a jumpbox link.

Bots never do this.

And if you proceed with installing the zero duplicate (adv version), SID will be removed for guests, in case someone posted a links with SID like you just did Wink

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ksaetern · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

dcz · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: Is this normal?

This should not happen.

Could be either because you did not, or did not fully install the cyber alien guest sessions mod (link in install file and release threads).

Anyway, when I browse you forum as guest, I do not see any SIDs.

So it's not and problem SEOwise, but still, something to fix.

The mod is easy to install, so check the sessions.php code changes, and as well, tell me if you'd installed another SID removal method before, such as the able2know one or others based on UA recognition.

They could mess up a bit with the cyber alien one, being IMHO the best method.

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ksaetern · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

I have the cyber alien guess mod installed. I dont have any other SID removal method installed before this one.

I have posted the sessions.php codes below so maybe that would help:

[mod]too much code makes code useless Wink

[/mod]

mhmdkhamis · PR4 Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 436 Location: egypt

hello ksaetern Smile

i think mod work good

i enter your forum and not find any SID in the links

ksaetern · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

mhmdkhamis · PR4 Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 436 Location: egypt

dcz · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:04 pm Post subject: Re: Is this normal?

As well, this could come from your cookie domains settings.

The proper settings for all cases is :

ksaetern · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

Here are my cookie settings.

ksaetern · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 6

Thanks all for your the help. I have founded a mod and was able to fixed that problem now.

Just in case someone might have this same issue, use the auto_cookie mod to fix this problem.

hbbt · Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 30

Have a few questions here .. thanks dcz and all for redirecting me and solving the problem in this thread.

I too was getting no SID's before logging in but after I logged in they were there.

Fortunately, mine worked just fine by adding the

.domain.com to the cookies path

But have a question about a few things

This question back in the ACP:

Cookie secure
If your server is running via SSL, set this to enabled, else leave as disabled

Mine is set to disabled right now .. should it be set to enabled because mine is running SSL? At least I thought every phpbb forum was ..

And also, on the mod that is the "auto-cookie" .. is that a good idea to have installed anyway even if the fix is good now?

dcz · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 3:20 pm Post subject: Re: Is this normal?

Well, I don't think you need SSL. It's not this easy to deal with and would cause some SEO issues. Bots do not like SSL URLs, and AdSense cannot be displayed on SSL pages. This like that.

Then, I hope you did not really set your cookie path to .domain.com, but your cookie domain instead.

It's a lot better.

About the auto cookie mod, I'm not sure why ksaetern needed it, usually it isn't and actually, it's the only case I know where it seems it was useful or required.

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hbbt · Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 30

Yes I did mean the cookie domain..

Its funny .. sometimes I get the SID= after and sometimes I dont .. not really sure .. I guess I will just add the mod just to solve the problem!