Vbulletin 2.21 Cookie Problems..

[larryd]

I dont know whats going on but all of a sudden for some reason my Vbulletin will not seem to remember alot of users. It will ask the user to logon when they try and create a new post and they logon, then it takes them back to the page again, they click to post again and it says there not logged in and wants them to log in again.. this is happening to hundreds of my users that Im aware of..

also for 2 days now I cant get into my control panel.. I dont know why but for some reason it wont let me into the admin control panel.. it takes me to the login page where I put in my username and pw and click enter and it says hang on a sec as if its gonna let me in and then it takes me right back to the logon page again. Prolly same issue that other people are having with logging into the forum Im having with logging into the admin control panel.. this is the link that comes up when I try and access the admin control panel after putting in my username and pw..

I go to www.newcelica.org/forums/admin/index.php and put in my username and pw and it brings me right back to same page with different link..

http://www.newcelica.org/forums/admin/index.php?

Im stumped on what to do here, can anyone please help me out and point me in the right direction..

[larryd]

ive been playing around with it a little more.. I deleted my cookies and went to logon.. it logs me on to the forums, then when I try and do anything like access a private forum that would check your identity it asks me to logon again.. it wont keep me logged on.. I went back and looked and its not creating cookies.. why would Vbulletin just stop creating cookies??

[smacwill]

Probably using IE6 and it's blocking cookies. I'm having this same problem with 100's of users on my board (v 2.0.3). I've even tried installing a w3c Privacy Policy with the same results.

Here's what works every time for them:

Clear your cookies!!!! This is important!

If using IE6 go to Tools > Internet Options > Privacy Click Edit and enter to accept all cookies from your domain

If you are using the XP Personal Firewall, this can also cause this problem.

Use the login at the bottom right of the Main Page. Click the button, don't hit enter.


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[Username]

I am having this problem as well. A lot of users started complaining and posting as unregistered after the upgrade to 2.2.1

It is not a simple browser config problem because it only started happening after the 2.2.1 upgrade (I skipped 2.2.0).

Any other thoughts on why it's happening?

[smacwill]

Sorry but I dis-agree. I'm running 2.0.3 and have the same problem. Started happening when people started upgrading to XP and IE6. The proceedure stated above works 99.9% of the time. Our VB Forums have over 12,000 Members.

IE6 has a new way of handling cookies. I also work for a Company that hosts a couple hundred Websites for associations and we are having the same types of problems on those sites. They are using Cold Fusion and cookies. Same proceedure fixes the problems there.


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[jam583]

And I thought I was the only one I posted your solution on my page .. I hope it helps some of my members. Thanks for sharing.

[smacwill]

Originally posted by jam583
And I thought I was the only one I posted your solution on my page .. I hope it helps some of my members. Thanks for sharing.

It should. I have a standard email I send. I get at least 3 or 4 a day from people with this problem.

[Moonwolf]

http://www.riderweb.com/news.php?artnum=15 explains the latest MSIE goof-up

Kathi