Running another board on a subdomain

[Peter77]

I'm sure this has been coverd many times. I've toyed with it before setting up test boards on a subdomain. I noticed that I had log in issues between my regular board and the test board. The subdomain would be for a friend who needs to host thier shoutcast radio station and I would need to freely monitor both my forum and the subdomains forum as Admin without getting logged out all the time from both forums.

Is it that I have to have two seperate cookie path names? or do they have to be the same?

Any help is appreciated, Thanks

[dcz]

Well, to be able to use the same sessions in the main domain and sub-domains you need to set you cookie domain to .example.com (noticed the dot ?), your cookie path to / and to set the same cookie name for both forums.

Everything should then work fine.

Note that this is only possible with the same main domain, and could not be done this easy with two different domains installed.

This is due to the way cookies where designed, for security reason, cookie cannot be used across different domains.

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[Peter77]

Hmm by .domain you mean for both? or for the main... either way I try it, one forum looses it's path to sign in. the login.php page is there, but once I sumbit to login, I get a 404.

both boards cookie domain is .domain.com


both the cookie names are the same.

and both cookie paths are /

Or if I can login just fine in both forums, I just can't remain logged in to both. what am I doing wrong?


Thanks

[dcz]

Well all the sudden I am not sure about what you want to do here.

If you which two forum to share sessions, you'll have to make them share at least a part of the DB, for the two forum sot use the same user base, like here basically.

here some doc about how to do it : http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=55

Once this is done, the cookie setting I gave you can make sens, because you need the user accounts to exist in both forums to be able to keep sessions

If not, then, do not put the same cookie name I'd say, for the two forum to work well independently (no crossed sessions).

Proceed with cautious here if you work on sharing your actual user bases, it's not hard to do, but you'll have to be prepared and to have run local testings I'd say before you go online with such changes.

Here is an handy SQL command to get rid of table prefix if you go for it :

[Peter77]

Oh no, I just wanted to be able to manage two different boards. I wasn't looking to share DB and sessions, although thanks for the link.. it has useful infomation. I got it working now. it was dificult changing cookie names... had to use Starfox tj's toolkit MOD to get in.



Pete