RNYA user cookie not saved

Involved Joined: Jul 03, 2006 Posts: 273

I just installed a local version of 2.30.1 and something weird going on that I haven't figured out yet but I am posting about it to let you know.

Well first odd thing was imediatley after install I am blocked from site for INVALID IP? Ok no worries turned off the invalid IPCheck. However the first thing I try to do is login to site (as reg user version of admin) Ok so I login via the default block and it shows a not normal user info page. (about 4 - 6 lines of user info, name etc, instead of the YA page as usual) but as soon as I click any link I am logged out again. So I log in again now I see the usual your account page. I click a link and now I am logged out again. Everytime I login as soon as I click a site link (be it in the header menu or the Block Menu) I am logged out again????

I will be trying to figure this one out but if anyones seen this behavior before tips are most welcome!

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:15 pm

Well I don't know why yet but it refuses to save the user cookie for some reason? It saves the admin cookie when I log into admin but not the user cookie. I get the following cookies

RNYA_test1 thru 4
PHPSESSID
lang
admin

d*** user cookie just refuses to show up though?

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:17 pm

UPDATE

I dunno how or why this happened yet but my users_config table was installed with the normal prefix and not the users prefix which I had set different for each. Looking thru the YA files I noticed they where using the user prefix for the users_config table so I manually changed the name in my db to reflect the users prefix and all seems well. So I suggest adding to your "ToDo" list to check the install sql and correct it to use user prefix and not prefix when installing.

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:54 pm

This has been corrected, but not released yet.

Involved Joined: Nov 19, 2003 Posts: 282

Is this the same error whereby the cookie issue where it does not cross domains? i.e. www.domain.com cookie does not work at domain.com

I notice if i try to come to ravenphpscripts.com I am directed to www.ravenphpscripts.com

This is logging users (me) out when the click on some modules or cross platforms .... can I have the fix please Smile

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:45 am

No. It was done here for SEO reasons. This is the way browser/cookies work. You can add a directive in your htaccess file to redirect to the www url. There may be something in sentinel that does this.

Short of me goggling hit I am not sure what you need to add to your htaccess file. Maybe one of the other guys can add his thought Smile

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:55 pm

Ok so I am confused Smile

What can I change on my site to allow the cookie to work on both www.domain.com and domain.com ? Is that fixed ? Is that "the fix" mentioned ?

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:15 pm

Go into Nuke Sentinel and set Force Nuke URL: to YES. It will be on the first page.

This will force your users to the url that you have set in your site Preferences. Meaning if you have have http://www.yoursite.com set in Preferences it will redirect someone coming from http://yoursite.com to http://www.yoursite.com.

The opposite would be true if you have it set the opposite way.

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:59 pm

Okay I did it. Thanks Palbin. Smile

Regular Joined: Jun 09, 2004 Posts: 79

I also get RNYA_test1 through RNYA_test4 for both admin and regular user. When I click on some links it shows me as not logged in. If a login is required for that link, it redirects me to the Your_Account page (or admin login page). If I hit the browser's back button, it shows me as logged in. I try the link again and no problems. I haven't changed any prefixes. I set set Force Nuke URL: to YES but it hasn't made any difference. How can I fix this issue? Thanks.

Edit 8/22/09: Okay, so I guess this is a Firefox problem. I am seeing lots of posts in forums where people are saying they don't stay logged in on any site. Some can't log into sites. I am really disliking this latest Firefox update. I wanted to downgrade but I read older issues have exploits.