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BigAl · P4 Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 2990 Location: U.K Surrey

Having lots of problems with being logged off all the time ect ect, can you please look into it
Thank you
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BigAl · P4 Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 2990 Location: U.K Surrey

Also getting a problem where posts i have read are still being shown as unread, even with a resfresh. Might be something to do with "If your browser does not support meta redirection please click HERE to be redirected"
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BigAl · P4 Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 2990 Location: U.K Surrey

Getting the same thing today, read posts still show as unread until i sogn out and back in??
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eagle3 · Alfa 33 Joined: 11 Nov 2007 Posts: 402 Location: France

So what browser are you using? IE8? Firefox? Opera?
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BigAl · P4 Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 2990 Location: U.K Surrey

IE7 and IE8
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Admin · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:08 pm Post subject:

Hi

Will have a look when I get a chance. But these things can be gits to spot.

I am doing some changes at the moment, but nothing had gone live yet.

If you can spot a pattern that would help greatly.

All the best

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paulhide · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:32 pm Post subject:

I'm using IE8 with no problems.
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BigAl · P4 Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 2990 Location: U.K Surrey

Good for you paul Laughing

Keith, good to hear you voice again, well typing.
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BigAl · P4 Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 2990 Location: U.K Surrey

Just had a problem, i was in my inbox, i clicked sent messages and it asked me to sign in.
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Admin · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:21 am Post subject:

Hi

I have had it too, and can see it happening in the session table. But no idea why.

Not sure how much you know on php, sessions and cookies. This board is using phpBB2 (which is pretty out of date). It generates a session id and stores that in the session table, and also in a cookie on your machine. It also tries to store it in a hidden variable on most pages.

When a page is processed it looks for the session id in the cookie, and if it doesn't find it there it looks for it in the hidden field.

What seems to be happening is that the one it decides to use either isn't found on the table the sessions are stored in, or there is a mismatch on something else (eg, it checks the ip address). Some of the checks it only bothers to do after a minute from the last check.

However not sure what is happening. With you, your IP address in the sessions table hadn't changed, and there was only 14 seconds between the last use of one session and the next use with your new session id.

What I have noticed is that if if bounces you off but you still know what the session id is then you can go into the cookies on your machine and update it back to the old session id, and by magic you land up logged on again as you were before.

All the best

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paulhide · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:22 am Post subject:

If I'm having no problems with IE8, but you are, Al, doesn't that point to something extra on your machine causing a problem, like virus protection or something - As you can see I know nothing about computers. Very Happy

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Admin · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:49 am Post subject:

Hi

While it might be a browser issue I am not sure that it is.

I have had the same issue and I am using Opera.

Did it to me when I opened about 10 threads at once (click the mouse wheel to open them in the background) and the first half opened OK while the 2nd half of them had me logged off (and both sessions were still logged in according to the server).

My guess is that it is a problem with cookies failing to get to the web server.

All the best

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Admin · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:20 am Post subject:

Hi

Mmmm, slight progress. Just after that post it booted me off and invoked some debugging I had lobbed in.

Problem appears to be that it is not getting the right IP address. PhpBB checks the first 24 bits of the IP address and if that has changed compared to the IP address stored on the sessions table then starts up a new session.

For some reason when it chops the first part of the IP address off it is leaving "000000" (which is almost certainly not a match!).

Not sure why. I have put in more debugging info to double check.

All the best

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john 33_16v · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:32 pm Post subject:

I've had a few problems too recently, and just lost a reply to another post about 33 on youtube.

If it's a hosting issue, I'd be happy to host FOC.

I don't know whether there are enough of us to make it viable to club together for vbulletin forum licence?

Cheers,

John
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Admin · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:47 pm Post subject:

Hi

Hosting might be the problem, but not sure. And I have other hosting I can use if needs be. Problem is that it is very hit and miss and I can't see how to trigger the problem.

I would rather avoid any paid for vbulletin solution. Don't really think it is any better than phpBB, and the hassle of converting would be worse than converting to phpBB3 and on top of that there would be a hefty yearly fee.

As to losing posts, it is one reason I use Opera. Click the back button and the input fields are still populated.

All the best

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Admin · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:25 pm Post subject:

Hi

Seems to work. That bit is totally javascript so would suggest a problem with your browser for that.

All the best

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BigAl · P4 Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 2990 Location: U.K Surrey

Thank you for explaining, still not working here, on this pc but now i know why Smile

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paulhide · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 4:25 pm Post subject:

Why

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BigAl · P4 Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 2990 Location: U.K Surrey

javascript is to blame lol
now when replying to a post the "topic review" below, where you can see what your replying to is blank.
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Admin · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 5:24 pm Post subject:

Hi

It just bounced me out again when I went to reply. Which gave me some more info.

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR'], $HTTP_ENV_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR'] and getenv('REMOTE_ADDR') all returned blank for the IP address.

That suggests a server issue.

The topic review is in a seperate table, and think that it can sometimes take a while for that to be populated if there is plenty of info.

All the best

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Admin · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 7:15 pm Post subject:

Hi

I have done a bodge that (for now) might stop this being quite so much of a problem. It isn't a real fix.

What I have done is changed it so that if the IP address is a load of zeros (ie, should be invalid) then it bounces you to the front page of the site. I hope that this means it will not log you off, but can't be sure.

Sorry about the inconvenience.

If this bodge causes and issues (beyond the obvious one of being on a page you didn't want to be on) then let me know.

I have had a good look around and cannot find anything from anyone who has had the same problem. I have put a call in to our web space provider and hope that they can find a solution.

All theb est

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BigAl · P4 Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 2990 Location: U.K Surrey

Thanks Keith,
All the best
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33bits · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 8:22 pm Post subject:

I just logged on here with no probs and it worked faster than ever!!! Very Happy

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BigAl · P4 Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 2990 Location: U.K Surrey

Compared to how it was before Alex??
I think Keith is doing his magic Laughing

I just clicked reply to a message and got

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database
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