staying logged in Options

hello kinjo.

I think there is something wrong with your cookie settings, i cannot stay logged in.

In internet explorer i remain logged in, but in opera or firefox i have to retype my login everytime i visit the page.
Its a bit annoying, and this problem has been here from the start.

Can you look at it?

i think cookies are stored on you machine, not the server, and they must be working or internet explorer wouldn't stay logged in (i know this from experience)

just my 2cents of worthless knowledge

Thanks for the input A Smoking Fox. Cookies is stored on individual PC's browsers, and swicthing between different browsers (opera, firefox, IE6 etc) seemed to log you out from the other. In my experience, sticking with only one browser when accessing the forum will automatically log me in everytime. Nevertheless, the forum upgrade to a paid board software has been delayed again and again. Until we are upgraded, please kindly be patience. I am really hoping that the new upgrades will soon improve member's convinience and hopefully our board security in general.

You stay looged in on IE because cookies are usually allowed by default. Check your settings for your other browsers, I know in Firefox that they are usually set to delete after each session but you can allow them for individual sites. If you mark that you trust this site it will keep the cookies and you will stay logged in. Opera and Firefox work fine for me here but I know I had to change the settings to allow cookies and auto-log-in on those browsers.

there is nothing wrong with my cookie settings in firefox, nor in opera.
I visit many sites, and none of them have any problems setting cookies.

It could be that there is something wrong with the way the cookie is set by the server. wich does not provide an error in ie, but does in other browsers.

It is certainly not an error on my part. The problem exists in firefox, in opera under windows and under linux. I have always had this problem on this site, since i joined. Wich is about a year ago almost.

In that time, no other site has given me that problem.

I don't know but I am using Firefox right now and I use opera all the time and it has always worked fine for me. You might also want to check your passcard settings. This individual passcard may be not set to auto log as with the other sites.

Can't tell you what the problem is really but I know it always works fine for me.

Does anyone else seem to have this problem? It would seem that if it was the site that others would have the same difficulties.

Hey fox I started to have this problem when the forum moved its new domain. This seemed to solve it for me.
1. Go to the forum site.
2. If logged in, Log out
3. Make sure cookie setting are set to allow from this site and other parties
4. Log in
5. Use the front page where you are logged in as your bookmark

The problem is that it treats the site sacred-magick.org and the bookmark when you are logged in as different.
The logged in bookmark should be the domain along with a string of numbers. This will keep you login and session info with the bookmark.
If it's just the domain it treats it like your anyother user. Don't know if this will help you but it solved the problem for me.

If you log in at http://sacred-magick.org, you will get problems because the rest of the board will have the www. prefix, which will mess the cookies up.. So ensure that you are going to http://www.sacred-magick.org before you report any problems.

I'm going to try tweaking a forum setting to see if it helps any, I think I've been having some problems with this too, actually..

you can put the following code in your config.php or similar page of the board. It will redirect users to the right url's

$domain = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
if($domain != 'www.sacred-magick.com')
{
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header('Location: www.sacred-magick.com' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
exit;
}

You might have to tweak it a little, you have to change the ww.sacred-magick.com parts to the url the site is really at.

This post has been edited by A_Smoking_Fox: Feb 24 2006, 06:44 PM

Let me know if there are any more problems; I changed the cookies to global domain so having [or not having] the www. in the url shouldn't affect it any longer.