login redirects to discussions index but does not log me in

tfsmag

I've been having this problem since I installed it. Sometimes I have to go through sign in like 10 times to get it to finally sign me in. I searched through the forum but didn't find anything on this, sorry if I inadvertently double posted. Thanks, Jeff

NickE

Make sure the domain you're accessing the login page from is the same as the cookie domain (eg. if the cookie domain is 127.0.0.1, access it via 127.0.0.1 and not something like localhost).

tfsmag

well the domain is my regular domain and i'm only accessing it through that domain so I don't think that is it...

here is a link to my installation in case anyone wants to see if they can recreate it.

login: demo
pass: pass

NickE

That is weird. It only seems to work when I check the 'remember me' button. Maybe something screwed up with your server's session handling?

tfsmag

yeah, i dunno... it's an IIS server, dunno if that makes a difference. I have like a half dozen asp.net apps running on there that use sessions with no problems though

tfsmag

*bump

redux

checking....

Dinoboff

I must be a session problem. Check the error log and your session settings.

redux

All the cookie stuff seems to be working fine now:

Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=2314a9286e9e939cf2e438f41b903c1a; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT

I am of course first-time browsing this page with a clean browser (firefox).

This would seem to imply that your browser has some bad cookies or something. I'd suggest clening out your cookies n stuff.

I was able to sign in and out several times using the demo login

Dinoboff

I deleted all my cookies; I still can't sign-in, with-out the remember options on.

tfsmag

There's nothing in the error log or anything out of the ordinary with the session settings. I'm going to upgrade my version of php and see if that has something to do with it. the server still had version 4, I guess we'll see if upgrading to version 5 makes any difference.

redux

ok i poked around a bit and found some differences:

Yours:

Response Headers - http://www.skatemag.com/vanilla/index.php

Connection: close
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:07:10 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET, PHP/5.0.4
Last-Modified: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:07:09 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=9999e8dfaa2236f1661d128e03e13b81; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache

200 OK

Lussumo:
Response Headers - http://lussumo.com/community/

Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:08:20 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:08:20 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

200 OK

My home test:
Response Headers - http://192.168.0.5/~ReDuX/forum/

Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:08:58 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) PHP/4.3.11
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:08:58 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

200 OK

Perhaps has something to do with you running PHP 5 ? ( i dont know if vanilla is 100% compatible with php 5 yet, or even if php5 is finalised (standardised etc.))

Note that yours has a php session id and path. the others dont. not even lussumo.
Perhaps something relating to the cookie lacking a more specific path than \ , im not sure.

I'd certainly move to a more stable php version (4.3.x) though.

hope that sheds some light on the subject.

tfsmag

that's weird.. i didn't think i was on php5 on that server?

redux

yep, Microsoft Windows Internet Information Server with PHP5:

Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET, PHP/5.0.4

tfsmag

i guess i am... but man how freaking long is php5 not gonna be stable?

NickE

Vanilla runs fine on my test server, and I'm using php 5.