submit comment creates new comment box, without submitting

hbf

i'm dumbfounded as to what may be causing this. three days ago i modified the cookie domain to read .homebrewforums.net so users wouldn't get logged out when switching between www and non-www paths. later that day this started happening. I cleared the cookie domain field and everything was fine for the last couple days... until i logged on from my laptop today.

When i hit the post comment button,instead of posting a comment, it just adds a new message form comments form div. What is going on?

hbf

oh, and its V2.0.18.8 in case anyone didnt already know.

hbf

oh, and it's placing the errant comment boxes into the datalist messagelist Discussion div.

hbf

i guess i'll provide the link too, there might be one person left on this site that doesnt already know my forum link http://homebrewforums.net

hbf

why do bad things happen to good people?

in this question, i'm the good people. it's rhetorical, so it doesn't have to be true.

hbf

it's happening on mobile too. so it's not isolated to the theme.

hbf

and it's happening on private messages (conversations) not just discussions

hbf

so basically, my life is falling apart right now

hbf

i'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the reason the number of people posting on my forum just went from 6 to 0 in the last 15 minutes is because this issue is no longer isolated to me.

hbf

and to make things even more interesting... i just logged into one of my test instances (a totally vanilla setup of 2.0.18.8, in a subdomain virtual host on the same webserver) and it is exhibiting the same symptoms, so it has to have something to do with either

a) my webserver
b) my network
c) my dns
d) sun spots or aurora borealis

hbf

nothing weird with dns that i can see. tracert shows the correct one hop from my laptop to the router in the front room, which proxies for the web server.

UnderDog

The only thing I can think of is replicate it locally. Since you're probably having a local server try approach the site through localhost?

Can you revert back to the default theme on that test site? Buttonbar? HTML format?

I need the regulars to help too here, have no PC to reproduce

hbf

i should say, port forwards, not proxies. it's not a proxy server.

hbf

@UnderDog said:
The only thing I can think of is replicate it locally. Since you're probably having a local server try approach the site through localhost?

Can you revert back to the default theme on that test site? Buttonbar? HTML format?

I need the regulars to help too here, have no PC to reproduce

test site is using default theme, almost no plugins activated - only a test environment for Diego's Badges and Reactions application (which is not running on the live server)

unfortunately, i cant use local host, since the virtual host configuration of apache relies on the hostname to determine what virtual web you are requesting. There is no default binding, and i host a few domains.

hbf

the test environment is here http://test2.homebrewforums.net

hbf

test

hbf

requests are not being formated properly

hbf

POST /vanilla/post/comment/1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.homebrewforums.net
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 289
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, /; q=0.01
Origin: http://www.homebrewforums.net
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Referer: http://www.homebrewforums.net/discussion/1/tkt-no-holds-barred/p12362
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Cookie: meebo-cim-session=10681cf0252ca1bb3845; tapatalk_redirect4=false; Vanilla=2-1386299313%7C8e368ebc4b344753d0b367677a72eb1c%7C1383707313%7C2%7C1386299313; VanillaSessionID=2dc345da318f2b74cf56fc4febfef086; Vanilla-Volatile=2-1383880133%7C855034cea6487ad8e1b29dfdb112926e%7C1383707333%7C2%7C1383880133; __utma=40087355.1213149981.1363234001.1383886546.1383888625.614; __utmb=40087355.4.10.1383888625; __utmc=40087355; __utmz=40087355.1383070122.567.5.utmcsr=vanillaforums.org|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/discussion/24510/manual-setup; Vanilla-Volatile=2-1384064130%7Ced4eedb00034fd92ad8c765f6d5867b9%7C1383891330%7C2%7C1384064130

this is the request header. the address doesnt make sense

hbf

this is the request header from this site from the previous post

POST /vanilla/post/comment2.json?commentid=195850&inserted=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: vanillaforums.org
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 0
Accept: /
Origin: http://vanillaforums.org
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36
Referer: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25317/submit-comment-creates-new-comment-box-without-submitting
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Cookie: vf_vforg_YIPEX-tk=e0d4bd8894dab881; vf_vforg_YIPEX-Volatile=34295-1366352976%7C42014a3d0e671763b520d21ae05a1584%7C1366180176%7C34295%7C1366352976; vf_vforg_YIPEX=34295-1385883807%7Cd28d6eccf2c98ab4e31212eda79aeb6f%7C1383291807%7C34295%7C1385883807; vf_vforg_YIPEX-Volatile=34295-1383464607%7Cb23af058b6a62edb31bdce4db2a2ad55%7C1383291807%7C34295%7C1383464607; __utma=25563450.639532835.1363547304.1383838177.1383884368.205; __utmb=25563450.42.10.1383884368; __utmc=25563450; __utmz=25563450.1382589881.149.8.utmcsr=Vanilla%20Forums%20Monthly%20OSS%20Newsletter|utmccn=6edc9f346f-Newsletter_October_2013_OpenSource_10_9_2013|utmcmd=email|utmctr=0_91854571ea-6edc9f346f-335176697; __vna=1363547303.204.1.1383891285.1320373442; __vnb=1383891285.42.1; __vnc=1363547303; vf_vforg_YIPEX-Vv=1383891482

hbf

I'm getting nowhere on this. I am completely and utterly stumped. The post javascript is not generating the correct URL for the request. why? what is going on?

It happens on a test site, which i literally just deleted everything except my config.php and one plugin, then re-installed vanilla into. it happens on mobile and on my laptop, so it's not browser specific. The issue manifested itself as intermittent originally, but is now persistent and reproducible. the only common thread is the server, the network and the apache service.

im getting down to the wire here. I need some words of encouragement / guidance or i'm going to pull the plug on vanilla and transition to one of the other platforms i have on test servers. That's obviously not something i want to do.. it would be a huge ordeal and i would loose more than 3 years of work and more than a quarter million posts, not to mention the hit on search and all of that..... but if people cant access my site and comment on it, it's worthless.

R_J

@hbf: Just tried to register to your test installation in order to test if that is a general problem on your site or only your local pcs problem.
If you create an account for me, I'll do some test comments