1.5.1 Login/Cookie Bug?

[lagsalot]

Hello..

I have been having a headache of a problem with 1.5.1 and staying logged in.   It seems to have been an issue in the past with version < 1.5.*,  But from what I've read, most of these problems should have been fixed in 1.5.1.  

Is this correct?

I haven't started digging though the code yet.  However I think I have at least narrowed the problem down a bit, or at least to a certain bit of code.  

If I follow the "login" link on the navigation bar (http://temp.yavinrebels.com//index.php?board=;action=login).  I am not logged in correctly, and if I go to another page I get logged out.  However, if I log in via the user/pass boxes at the very bottom of the forum.  The log in works fine.  I can move around, and log in/out as other users with out problems.  Is this a known issue perhaps?

Is there something I'm over looking?

My Boards are at http://temp.yavinrebels.com if anyone would like to take a gander.

Aside from this annoyance, these look like great forums.

[Seoman_rus]

I have the same problem with 1.5.1 - I can login, but when i nam trying to go to another page, i nsee an error, which tells me to log in!

[lagsalot]

Well I noticed an xtra slash in the url posted above.  http://temp.yavinrebels.com//index.php?foo=bar.  How ever this was fixed in the preferences but the problem still remains..

[Seoman_rus]

Yes, I also did it later, but...
I do not think that i have anything in common with you, I use win98, opera7.02&IE6... and even live in Russia.
So this problem is a problem of forum, not only our...

[lagsalot]

Can you log in with the user/pass boxes at the very bottom of the index.php page?

This works for me. But I haven't seen any one else describe the probelm in this mannor..

[Seoman_rus]

No, i tried to login in the bottom form but...
At last i just installed 1.5.0 again.
One more question: did you install safe mode?
There is one more post about this problem, look near this one.
I tried to login in your forum, I registered, but could not continue.

[Seoman_rus]

Yes, 1.5.0 works fine
Install it  - and enjoy!

[[Unknown]]

If 1.5.0 works.... you should go back to 1.5.1 and fix your $cookiename in Settings.php.

We do not provide support for 1.5.0 (aka unsupported versions.) of YaBB SE.

-[Unknown]

[lagsalot]

I have never used 1.5.0.  Just jumped on board with 1.5.1.  Going to look at the code here and a sec, and worst case senerio I'll roll back to 5.0.

[Gobalopper]

If you want us to look at cookie problems please provide a test account and the location of your forum.

[lagsalot]

Actually.. after digging around I found out that my date was set to 2002   *hangs head in shame*.

So when I used the bottom login, it defaults the time value to "forever".  "Forever" being programed as + 31536000 secs, or 1 year.  So with my PC being slightly behind the servers time.  I was getting a cookie that expired in about 5 minutes.  Giving the appearance that I was getting a good session, and that the form on the bottom of the page was working correctly, the form on the top not working correctly.

Guess thats what I get for using a box that some one else built.  

[[Unknown]]

I should'a said something.... as I did here :

When I/my users login without selecting 'always stay logged in', we get automatically logged out.  How can I fix this?

You need to change the forum time offset in your control panel - it is not set correctly.

-[Unknown]

[lagsalot]

Actually it was the system date on the server that was causing the problem.  Not my local machine.