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  • St0rm
    New Member
    • Nov 2007
    • 21
    • 4.0.0

    Login Issues

    I asked customer support this, they told me to make a bug report, and now its the weekend and I can't really afford to wait until Monday to have it looked at, so I'm hoping you can enlighten me.

    I have PHP5 and a vanilla install of VB5 located here: http://www.st0rm.net/forum

    Everything looks OK (except slow popin of some menus when you click a new tab, I hope that will go away...) however, people cannot login! If you try to login, it takes you back to the same page and doesn't seem to modify your cookies one bit. I can login from the admincp and it logs me in everywhere, however then I can't logout! (without clearing my cookies manually).

    I have full verbose debug mode in both PHP, VB, and apache and all the logs are empty when i try to login. I've reinstalled this from scratch 3 times (redoing the config each time). Everything's set to be owned by www-data (apache) and rewrite mod is enabled (AllowOverride all)
    Last edited by St0rm; Sat 29 Sep '12, 10:44am.
  • Wayne Luke
    vBulletin Technical Support Lead
    • Aug 2000
    • 73976

    #2
    If you look in both config.php files, there is a cookie_prefix value in both of them. They need to match identically. By default they are both set to 'bb' but if you change one, then you get the behavior your describe.
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    • St0rm
      New Member
      • Nov 2007
      • 21
      • 4.0.0

      #3
      Originally posted by Wayne Luke
      If you look in both config.php files, there is a cookie_prefix value in both of them. They need to match identically. By default they are both set to 'bb' but if you change one, then you get the behavior your describe.
      Unfortunately I have
      core/includes/config.php


      $config['Misc']['cookieprefix'] = 'bb';


      config.php
      $config['cookie_prefix'] = 'bb';


      And have just tried changing them both to ''

      Still no luck.

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      • Hartmut
        Senior Member
        • Nov 2007
        • 2870
        • 4.2.x

        #4
        Hm, why do you run the site in debug mode anyways?
        No private support, only PM me when I ask for it. Support in the forums only.

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        • AlexanderT
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2003
          • 992

          #5
          Originally posted by Hartmut
          Hm, why do you run the site in debug mode anyways?
          A hunch: Because he is beta testing it?

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          • St0rm
            New Member
            • Nov 2007
            • 21
            • 4.0.0

            #6
            Originally posted by Hartmut
            Hm, why do you run the site in debug mode anyways?
            because...login doesn't work...that's a bug...and I'm trying to...DEbug it.

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            • abc123
              New Member
              • Feb 2008
              • 4
              • 3.8.x

              #7
              i have the same problem

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              • Lynne
                Former vBulletin Support
                • Oct 2004
                • 26255

                #8
                What do you have entered as your core path in your config.php file? Is it a complete path and not just a relative path?

                Also, what is in your error_logs (if you don't know where they are, ask your host)?

                abc123, if our help for St0rm does not help you out also, then you need to start your own thread with details of your own problem. We can only really help one person per thread or it gets pretty messy.

                Please don't PM or VM me for support - I only help out in the threads.
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                • St0rm
                  New Member
                  • Nov 2007
                  • 21
                  • 4.0.0

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Lynne
                  What do you have entered as your core path in your config.php file? Is it a complete path and not just a relative path?

                  Also, what is in your error_logs (if you don't know where they are, ask your host)?

                  abc123, if our help for St0rm does not help you out also, then you need to start your own thread with details of your own problem. We can only really help one person per thread or it gets pretty messy.



                  $config['baseurl_core'] = 'http://www.st0rm.net/forum/core';


                  $config['core_path'] = '/var/www/st0rm.net/forum/core';

                  This is correct, as shown here:
                  usweb:/var/www/st0rm.net/forum# stat core
                  File: `core'
                  Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory


                  Im not sure which log you want (PHP errors has more useful info), so here ya go:

                  http://www.st0rm.net/php_errors.log

                  And the log file specified in the VB adminCP is empty.

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                  • Lynne
                    Former vBulletin Support
                    • Oct 2004
                    • 26255

                    #10
                    Can you make sure that neither of your config.php files was saved as UTF-8 (with BOM).

                    Please don't PM or VM me for support - I only help out in the threads.
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                    • St0rm
                      New Member
                      • Nov 2007
                      • 21
                      • 4.0.0

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Lynne
                      Can you make sure that neither of your config.php files was saved as UTF-8 (with BOM).

                      I've reuploaded the .zip and did the editing purely in VIM to ensure no funny encoding went on. It didn't work. I then downloaded my old config file and opened it notepad++ and checked the Encoding menu option, it was checked as "UTF-8 WITHOUT BOM"

                      Currently:


                      usweb:/var/www/st0rm.net/forum# file -bi config.php
                      text/x-php; charset=utf-8
                      usweb:/var/www/st0rm.net/forum# file -bi core/includes/config.php
                      text/x-php; charset=utf-8


                      If a staffer wants a shell account to debug this, just let me know. Need this fixed.

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                      • Loco.M
                        Senior Member
                        • Mar 2005
                        • 4319
                        • 3.5.x

                        #12
                        I'm running into the same problem on my demo, I've checked the suggestions above.
                        I can login to admincp and then into the forums, but to just try and log on to the forums as a regular user, it's an endless loop.

                        Looking for any ideas, thanks.
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                        • Lynne
                          Former vBulletin Support
                          • Oct 2004
                          • 26255

                          #13
                          Originally posted by St0rm
                          If a staffer wants a shell account to debug this, just let me know. Need this fixed.
                          If you put in a ticket "Attn: Lynne" with a link to this thread and admin u/p and ftp info, then I can look into this tomorrow.

                          Originally posted by Loco.M
                          I'm running into the same problem on my demo, I've checked the suggestions above.
                          I can login to admincp and then into the forums, but to just try and log on to the forums as a regular user, it's an endless loop.

                          Looking for any ideas, thanks.
                          Is this an upgrade, Brandon, where the user existed previously, or did you add a new user, do some stuff, logout, and now can't login again? (You really should start your own thread so we can respond just to your issue.)

                          Please don't PM or VM me for support - I only help out in the threads.
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                          Want help modifying your vbulletin forum? Head on over to vbulletin.org
                          If I post CSS and you don't know where it goes, throw it into the additional.css template.

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                          • St0rm
                            New Member
                            • Nov 2007
                            • 21
                            • 4.0.0

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Lynne
                            If you put in a ticket "Attn: Lynne" with a link to this thread and admin u/p and ftp info, then I can look into this tomorrow.
                            Done.

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                            • cobro
                              Member
                              • Feb 2006
                              • 62
                              • 3.5.x

                              #15
                              I am having the same problem ? what could be wrong here is there a fix for this anytime soon or do we have to get our money back ?

                              - - - Updated - - -

                              Is this an upgrade, Brandon, where the user existed previously, or did you add a new user, do some stuff, logout, and now can't login again? (You really should start your own thread so we can respond just to your issue.)
                              Why not just try to figure it out here so if there will ever be a solution to this problem then everyone can learn from this

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