Forum Session Issues with Nuke 8.0/BBtoNuke2.0.23

New Member Joined: Jul 29, 2008 Posts: 7

Hi All I'm having some issues after moving my site to a new server with just the Forums doing odd things.

I currently have:

Nuke 8.0 (3.5patched) + BBtoNuke2.0.23. No extra forum mods

This was all working fine on the old server on www.mydomain.com (no trailing /nuke directory etc just under /)

After the move still the same as above just a new server I'm getting the following odd things happen:

1) Invalid Session Errors
2) Posts not showing as read after being looked at or even "mark all forums read", only after logout that the become read even if you haven't read them?
3) Odd thing with posts now showing until after a refresh on some occasions.
4) My own posts also show as new posts & again wont become read even though i have "mark all forums read"

I thought i may have been cookie related so i checked online here are my current cookie settings:

My Current Cookie/Forum Settings:

Domain Name: mydomain.com - (no www nukesentinal forces the no www)
Server Port: 80
Script path: /modules/Forums/
Cookie secure: Disabled
Cookie domain: .mydomain.com
Cookie path: / - (no trailing /nuke directory etc just under /, eg: http://mydomain.com/modules/Forums/index.php)
Cookie name: mydomain_forum
Session length [ seconds ]: 3600
Allow automatic logins: No
Automatic login key expiry:

Any ideas on where to start?

registered · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:29 pm

Try making your cookie settings blank (specifically the Cookie domain)

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:58 am

I've tried that and no luck. Still the same issue. I made the change then logged out, deleted cookies & cache, closed the browser & started again, logged in and the same issue. Note i'm not logging in as admin just as a normal user so i get the same experience as the users of the site.

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:27 am

Didn't Nukeseo have that cookie checker? I used it some time ago but not sure if it was Nukeseo or another package?

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:37 am

Yes i've used that. It was the one that set the current settings. Though they were set to that already, it just changed the cookie name.

Still the same issue after the changes where made Sad

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:47 am

You're going to have to link us to your actual site then, so we can see the problem ourselves

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:20 am

www.monsterlan.com

test user: monster
test password: monster

Thanks for your help so far.

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:30 pm

Weird, it seems no cookie is being set at all. I don't know why that would happen

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:44 am

I found out why it was doing the odd things. Long story short the server move went from php5 to php4. The theme used some drop down css menu's and for some odd reason the phpbb forums code had an issue with how this was implemented in the theme and caused the headers part of the phpbb code not to be sent correctly on the server with php4, worked fine on php5 server.

I'm still trying to figure out why it seemed to work ok on a php5 server but not php4.

Thanks for the help... if you have any ideas to the issue with the new info let me know.

Here is the script i've got in the theme.php

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/chrome/index.htm

Here is an example of the error I'm getting. I've just removed the menu's on the live site for now until i find a fix.

PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /sites/ml/monsterlan.com/www/themes/ML2008-FIX/theme.php:185) in /sites/ml/monsterlan.com/www/modules/Forums/includes/page_header.php on line 503, referer: http://monsterlan.com/modules.php?name=Your_Account&theme=ML2008-FIX

registered · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 5:53 am

cherrypopper, see if this helps:

http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/faq-2-.html#17

Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:30 am

Yeah that's currently set to:

output_buffering: 4096

It could be the theme as it there are a few open & close php tags with html inbetween. I'll attempt to go through and make it all in php using echo for the html lines. Would that be the issue maybe?

Like i said the theme was working as expected on php5

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:11 am

Well, I know this is not what you want to hear, but why is your host using PHP4? It is obsolete and no longer supported (here soon). You have to ask yourself if you really want to run on PHP4...

I wonder if it really is an environment setting (e.g., php.ini). I'm not sure what it would be though.

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:57 am

Yeah its on an old server and its free and for Australia that doesn't come by often, especially on a decent server & connection. I'll be taking over control of the server soon when i get time to I'll be upgrading it. I just thought if i can get away with not doing it for a little while then I'll be able to wait till the hardware refresh we have planned.

thanks anyway Smile