Raven, maybe you can help?

New Member Joined: Nov 17, 2003 Posts: 20

I am trying to figure out a problem that I keep having with my site. I posted the below problem a few hours ago on NukeCops but noone seems to know how to fix. I assume that it may be a cookie issue but who knows. It cant be Internet Explorer because your site and NC work fine logging in both ways.

"I started on 6.7, I'm on 7.3 now, I have yet to find a fix for the login problem.

If a user logs into my site under www.mysite.com, everything is fine and dandy. If they login from mysite.com (without the "www" in front of the url), they are NOT logged in and sometimes have problems trying to login, BUT if they switch to www.mysite.com, everything is fine and dandy again (this alos works in reverse as well, if they sign in under mysite.com, they have problems when coming onto www.mysite.com). The solution always ends up with the user having to delete their cookie files and logging in fresh under www.mysite.com."

Please help if possible, very annoying and ive seen several people with the same problem.

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 2:12 pm

What have you for your nuke url config under setting?
Also what is your cookie domain in the PHPbb config (This is the likely culpurt)?

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 8:15 pm

http://www.boxingscene.com is the site url under web site config

the forums cookie domain name is www.boxingscene.com

forums cookie file name is .boxingscene.com

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 8:39 pm

Ok I haven't seen this exact problem (I don't get out much)

Anyway this seems strange and I'd be quick to throw out the usual must be there browser settings but...

Have you tried leaving the forum domain blank? It will use the default one that is configured in your webserver then and with some luck resolve the issue.

The cookie domain I mean not the name. Otherwise it should have the www. in front of it.

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 9:11 pm

the one thing I forgot to mention is this also happens when I login only through www.mysite.com/admin.php, when i go back to my site without the "www" I am not logged in, with the "www" I am logged into admin.

erased cookie name and nothing

Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 5:26 am

I'm fresh out of ideas on this one. How or why is this even an issue? Browsers don't switch on their own unless there are some hard coded links on the site.

Worker Joined: Mar 11, 2004 Posts: 209

i discover that www.mysite.com/http:mysite.com are difference 2 months ago ( my first days at nuke ) i did chanced all my links to www.mysite.com Sad

i didnt ask or tell it to anyone coz i thought i sure did something wrong and messed it as always Embarassed

Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:15 pm

That makes more sense now. I couldn't see why this would be an issue otherwise.

Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:30 pm

peace wrote:

i discover that www.mysite.com/http:mysite.com are difference 2 months ago ( my first days at nuke ) i did chanced all my links to www.mysite.com Sad

i didnt ask or tell it to anyone coz i thought i sure did something wrong and messed it as always Embarassed

what do you mean as far as changing your links? When someone logs on to my site without the "www", all the "nuke" links dont have the "www", almost like an auto reaction from the php script as my main menu is self done by me and that never changes.

Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 2:30 pm

I think what he means is that there must be some coded links that aren't relative to the webroot. Once your to the site if you came via www it should stay www until you visit just mydomein.com either intentionally or by a hard coded link that is like http://mydomien.com instead of http://www.mydomien.com

If your really having an issue with this I'd contact your host because something is unique or odd about your system. Otherwise you could put something in your htaccess that redirects all requests to www which should eliminate the issue although its a mystery to me why this should be needed at all.

You didn't put something in the cookie path changing the default cookie path or something?

Did this happen before adding those nasty fastclick ads? I could see those cookies creating an issue with some browser configurations too.

Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 12:10 am

i cannot remember well what happened but i tho it effected somethings about register things .i didnt chance anything with my cookie/ htaccess coz i dont know any idea how to Embarassed

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Have you tried changing your Nuke url to http://mysite.com and the forum domain name to mysite.com? You will probably need to delete all cookies and flush the cache.

Regular Joined: May 03, 2004 Posts: 62 Location: USA

boxingscene wrote:

the one thing I forgot to mention is this also happens when I login only through www.mysite.com/admin.php, when i go back to my site without the "www" I am not logged in, with the "www" I am logged into admin.

erased cookie name and nothing

I'm not sure if I can be of any help here, but I can tell you about a similar situation I was having ... only a bit weirder Wink

If people clicked on a link (in an email notification) to one of the forum posts it would ... they'd end up on my Nuke site ... but it looked as if the style sheet was missing or something. It was my Nuke site, alright ... but just really weird looking. Somehow we found out that it was adding an extra / in the url. I ended up having to add a redirect to just redirect to the correct url.

AND ... when people would click on the url to my blog ... they'd end up on my nuke site! The funny looking version!

I can't tell you how it was fixed ... other than I had a whole lot of RSS and XML feeds running from different areas of my site, as well as some feedserver apps. I deleted all of the unnecessary scripts and now everything functions perfectly.