phpbb problem with new posts

Hangin' Around Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 42

This problem seems very isolated, and I am not sure what is causing it.

Some users of my forums claim that when they go to the forums main page, they will see that certain forums have new topics since last visit.
They will go into one of these forums, read the new thread topic and then click on the link at the bottom or top of the page to go back to the forum homepage.
Suddenly, all forums are marked as read.

I, personally have not had this happen on any of my computers, from anywhere.

They also claim it happens if they simply hit their back button to go back to the forum homepage.

Anyone heard of this? version 2.02.02 with phpbb 2.0.2

It was happening before the 2.02.02 update and it is still happening.
I had them clear cookies and try again later and that didn't help either.

Theme Guru Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 1006

I have someone complaining about this same thing. I am not 100% sure of their version of nuke but it is most likely 7.6 not ravennuke. I do not know if they have any patches but my guess is no.

Has anyone had this issue or better yet resolved it? Thanks

registered · Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:44 pm

What are your cookie settings in your Forums Configuration?

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:35 pm

for his site I checked and they are standard, the same as any other site I have worked on.

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:38 pm

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What are your cookie settings in your Forums Configuration?

Cookie domain - "www.mydomain.com"
Cookie name - "mydomain"
Cookie path - "/"
Cookie secure - disabled
Session length [ seconds ] - 3600

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:24 am

bumppppppppppppppppppppppp i really need some advice with this issue. Thanks!

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:15 am

i figured this out.

in your forum configuration. Delete the first three lines. Then logout as admin and regular user. Then relogin. All will work correctly. I cannot explain why exactly but it fixes the issue.

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:38 pm

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i figured this out.

in your forum configuration. Delete the first three lines. Then logout as admin and regular user. Then relogin. All will work correctly. I cannot explain why exactly but it fixes the issue.

Are you referring to the cookie configuration?

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:05 pm

yes. sorry. The cookie configuration. delete the first three lines. Leave them blank and then save. Then logout as admin and user. then log back in.

Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 9:38 pm

This worked for me!

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 12:56 am

I think this might possibly be related to the server configuration. Some hosts redirect http://yourdomain.com to http://www.yourdomain.com
By leaving the cookie domain set to www.whatever.com it is possible that it may cause 'cookie confusion' as new posts/read posts are reliant upon cookies.

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 6:00 am

Is there any issue with leaving the fields blank?