22 replies to this topic

[slacker]

the description explains it

[loco]

I have noticed that too but I'm not sure what's happening.... I'll take a good look when I have time.

[mknox]

i have found that the automatic login feature doesn't always work. i do have cookies enabled and javascript (if it uses these)

[devilhunter]

are you talking about the 'Remember me?' button at the side of the login options?
I think when you quit your browser window, the cookie session gets cancelled.

[dafootballer]

same thing happens to me there has to be a way to fix that

[doh123]

the blog page always remembers my log in.. but not the forums...

[mknox]

i was referring to this function that appears when you press the login button but now that you mention it the remember me function doesn't always work either

[devilhunter]

I'll look into this, but it may be a while before i can fix it...

[penyuan]

I have this problem, too. The site never remembers my logon! Would appreciate any help.....

[Taeki]

penyuan said:

I have this problem, too. The site never remembers my logon! Would appreciate any help.....

You will get some help 8)

devilhunter said:

I'll look into this, but it may be a while before i can fix it...

[MoDFoX]

Loco, I believe it's your cookies.
I've had this problem at a few other forums, the cookies were set to another domain.
if you went to abc.com it wouldn't save your cookies, but if you went to www.abc.com it did.

In this case I would say it is like a different forum I was at though;

They had a domain, let's say www.xyz.com but the cookies were only set at the abcd domain.
Hopefully this helps...

[devilhunter]

merged the two 'automatic login problems' topics

[devilhunter]

MoDFoX said:

Loco, I believe it's your cookies.
I've had this problem at a few other forums, the cookies were set to another domain.
if you went to abc.com it wouldn't save your cookies, but if you went to http://portingteam.c...php?www.abc.com it did.

In this case I would say it is like a different forum I was at though;

They had a domain, let's say http://portingteam.c...php?www.xyz.com but the cookies were only set at the abcd domain.
Hopefully this helps...

Thanks for the tip, but i already switched the cookie domain when we first set up the new Domain.
But this problem was also on the old forum and Domain, as slacker pointed out some time ago.

I read through some phpbb docs for the correct cookie settings, and it seems they are as correct as they can be.
They are set up as followed:
Cookie domain: forum.portingteam.com
Cookie name: phpbb3_
Cookie path: /

If the problems with the automatic login wasn't working for some, i can only think of that they visit other forums and these forums have 'phpbb3_' also as their cookie names.
Therefore i changed the Cookie name to 'ptcookie' to maybe avoid this problem.
(the cookie name should be unique for each website to avoid this problem)

Here are some references where this is described:
http://www.olate.co.uk/articles/3

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Cookie Domain: This is default on most forums as your domain name without the http:// part. This tells the cookie which site set it and allows that site to retrieve it. This is the most commonly incorrectly set option and if set incorrectly, will lead to the inability to stay logged in.

Cookie Name: This is set as default as phpbb2mysql and is just the name that the cookie is given when being stored. It doesn’t matter what this is set as but changing it will cause all the cookies to be needed to be added again. It is advised to give the cookie a name. If you are running multiple forums on the same server, it is advisable to have a different cookie name for each forum.

Cookie Path: This is where the cookie is directed to and is defaulted as / but this will depend on your forum location in your site directory. A common mistake here to put the URL (ie http://portingteam.c...edirect.php?htt ... xample.com) as the path which is incorrect.

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The Log Me In Automatically Box is not working:
This is because you have not set up the cookie domain or path correctly. Read the above information and double check your setup.

well, this should be correct

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The cookie features are working for me but not for some of my members:
The members most likely have the cookie security settings set to disallow cookies. Tell them to change them to allow cookies completely or just from your site. IE6 has improved features for this and your members might have messed with the settings.

I seriously hope that no one uses IE6 anymore...
But maybe reset your cookie settings once, maybe that helps.

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I have moved my forums to a new server and a new domain name and now the cookie features aren’t working:
Make sure you have updated the cookie settings in your control panel to reflect the changes to your host and domain name.

As i mentioned, done long ago...

So try the automatic login with the new cookie name again, otherwise this problem should be something more complicated...

[penyuan]

Hello,
I tried to remove all my cookies that have either "phpbb3_" or "ibrain" or "portingteam" in them and tried to log in again. But the site still doesn't remember me. Is there anything else I could try?
I am running Safari 4 on Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard.
Thanks for all your efforts!

[devilhunter]

penyuan said:

Hello,
I tried to remove all my cookies that have either "phpbb3_" or "ibrain" or "portingteam" in them and tried to log in again. But the site still doesn't remember me. Is there anything else I could try?
I am running Safari 4 on Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard.
Thanks for all your efforts!

Sadly, this is all i can do for now, if this still hasn't fixed the automatic login problems, i don't know what else to change.
Since this Problem existed even in the old Forum, this could be a bug in phpBB3.
Interestingly, not all users have this bug...

[Coogie7]

I have the same problem too. I use Firefox if that makes a difference.

[waves]

doh123 said:

the blog page always remembers my log in.. but not the forums...

Same here on firefox.

[devilhunter]

automatic login issues on phpBB boards are pretty widespread as a quick google search shows.

There is a fix i've found sometime ago, but i didn't use it.
http://www.phpbb.com...ic.php?t=228741

These kind of fixes tend to break a lot of things, and we could loose the ability to login entirely if i install this, like some posts from that Topic show.
Therefore i'm not gonna install this fix.

I can change the cookie settings all i want, it works for most users, and doesn't work for some.
But you can't keep an automatic login all the time on, for security reasons this has a time limit.
And always use the Logout button when you go away from here for the day.

[waves]

No sense it trying something if it could break a lot of things - easy enough to just enter password again :)

[vvsamiamvv]

I have the same problem with Safari, I wonder if there is anything common among the users that have troubles with the auto login "sticking"

[CobraKill]

vvsamiamvv said:

I have the same problem with Safari, I wonder if there is anything common among the users that have troubles with the auto login "sticking"

The common thing among users is this forum and the inability to "Remember Me" and be automatically logged in. I am registered to plenty of PHP boards and I still can return to it and it automatically logs me in. Unfortunately, I am not good with codes so I got lost in devilhunter's post. Anyways, I don't mind clicking log in every time. It's an effortless work anyways.

[Basibo1]

I have got the same luxury-problem ^^
I don't mind if it's going to be fixed, however :)