[Forum] Cookie troubles

[Smelly_Fed]

I'm working on a board for www.newenglandbrigade.org - and we're having all sorts of problems with users staying logged in.

When you go to the board, instead of seeing the homepage you're taken to a login screen. Logging in there doesn't hold your login, but clicking on the forum you'll find yourself suddenly logged in.

I thought it might be a problem with the htaccess file so I put a redirect in there for non-www users. That doesn't seem to help.

Session timeout is at 900 in vbulletin options
Path to cookies is set as "/" .
Cookie domain is set to blank.

I'm not sure what else to do - users can't stay logged in.

[Lynne]

Do you have anything else in your .htaccess file?

[Smelly_Fed]

Do you have anything else in your .htaccess file?

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName newenglandbrigade.org
AuthUserFile /home/newengla/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/newengla/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

# To redirect all users to access the site WITH the www. prefix,
# (http://example.com/... will be redirected to http://www.example.com/...)
# adapt and uncomment the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.newenglandbrigade\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newenglandbrigade.org/$1 [L,R=301]

[Lynne]

I don't see anything obviously wrong with that.

Try setting your cookie domain to ".yoursite.com" (note the period at the beginning, but no quotes). See if that helps out.

[Smelly_Fed]

I don't see anything obviously wrong with that.

Try setting your cookie domain to ".yoursite.com" (note the period at the beginning, but no quotes). See if that helps out.

I adjusted that setting - but I had already tried that once before so I'm not confident it's going to fix anything. Any other suggestions?

[Lynne]

Make sure users click the Remember Me when they login.

What do you have your Session Timeout set to?

[Smelly_Fed]

Session timeout is at 900 in vbulletin options
I'm not sure what else to do - users can't stay logged in.

Currently set at default 900 - whats the maximum range?

[Lynne]

900 is 15 minutes which is the default and should be fine.

[vshayes]

Im having the same problem..

my htaccess says this

# -FrontPage-
Options None
<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
require group authors administrators
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthType Basic
AuthName www.offtopicz.com
AuthUserFile /home/vshayes/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/vshayes/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Does anyone know what mine should say to fix the problem? IM having the same problem