forum sid removing does not work

janmyszkier · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 41 Location: Wroclaw, Poland.

Hello there,
I'm an owner of a domain name with non-english alphabet character, and after i changed the forum config to point to that domain, the phpbbseo (premod) decided to not remove sid anymore... anyone found this too?

EDIT: bah my bad.... just found out i gave "http://xxxxxxxxxx" instead "xxxxxxx" as cookie domain.
and yes you can kill me now for posting before checking everything Wink

HB · phpBB SEO Team Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 795

D'oh!

dcz

Since we're at it, make sure you did use ".example.com" (with the dot) as your cookie domain Wink

divinemanwah · Joined: 01 Apr 2008 Posts: 21

hello,
i came across reading this post because i have the same problem...
my sids still show up...

is it normal?

dcz

Have you checked your cookie settings ?

The 3.0.1 premod is out, so let's update before we go further Wink

digital1 · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 30 Location: India

Hai there,

My online forum have no problem with sid's but when i use the same database of live forum on localhost{XAMPP server} with all the same files present in live one by configuring the seo mod{I configured it by deleteing any seo cache file and regenerating it} then sid's on the localhost are not removed for any logged in user, where as it works fine for guest. I have tried all the settings for the cookies as told earlier. Any clue??? Confused

Edit: My premod version on both localhost and Live is 3.0.1 Smile

HB · phpBB SEO Team Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 795

Did you update the cookie name stored in the config table? I add an entry in the hosts file (e.g., 127.0.0.1 www.hb.com) and then update the local database:

digital1 · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 30 Location: India

cookie path is like that.
/www/seo-gold

Server name is "localhost"

Script path is /www/seo-gold

Cookie domain
tried several option but didn't work like
localhost, infoinn,

Cookie name--
localhost_okmry,
infoinn_okmry,
tried both but didn't work.

HB · phpBB SEO Team Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 795

Like you, I had cookie-related problems with host name 'localhost'. Once I added www.hb.com to my hosts file (mapped to loopback address 127.0.0.1) and updated the config table entries as described above, I've had no problems. Evidently some browsers object if the cookie domain doesn't have two "." in it, hence the ".hb.com".

This question regularly comes up on phpBB.com and the answer is always the same: Check your cookie domain settings and path (should be "/"). It came up so often, there's even a mod for it for V2.0.x:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=228741

I believe this was integrated into 3.0.x.

digital1 · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 30 Location: India

Yahooooooooo!!!!! ,

Domain mapping worked for localhost. Now sid's are removing as it should be.
Thanks for the guidance.

P.S: I really don't know the mapping like thing before this, but i know it now.