Log in Problems - redirected to guest acct

Drew · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 22 Location: raleigh nc

Log in Problems - redirect to guest - no portal software involved

After going live with your software on a forum the admin email account account started receiving messages like these.

dcz

Since you went from local to online, it's most likely a cookie / domain / cookie domain setting issue.
If phpBB is installed in -www.example.com/phpBB3/ you need to set the server name to :

Drew · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 22 Location: raleigh nc

That was one of the first things we thought to check too, and also checked cache to be sure the settings were correct

cache\data_global.php

'cookie_domain' => '.example.com',
'cookie_name' => 'phpbb3_xxxxx',
'cookie_path' => '/',
'cookie_secure' => '0',

From what we can tell, people using IE7 had the least problems
People using the "log me on automatically" had the most problems

The possible combinations of browser types (IE6, IE7, IE8, FF2, FF3, O,) X (possible browser security settings) = makes this difficult

We are going to reset the security settings to None and try a sample run

Allow persistent logins: No
Session IP validation: None
Validate browser: No
Validate Referer: No
Tie forms to guest sessions: No

But we can't use those settings for a fully operational forum

Drew · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 22 Location: raleigh nc

Any issues with both of these being in data_global

'version' => '3.0.2',
'seo_premod_version' => '3.0.2',

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overall_header.html

line 37

dcz

Drew · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 22 Location: raleigh nc

STATIC vs SATIC

We had the same thought on the cookie but a check of the backup of the data base ruled that out.

Anyway we are going to try it again maybe next weekend - other fires to put out for now.

dcz