Login and Session Issues

Login and Session issues and I've done the search with no success. I changed the forum skin back to default and turned off all plugins but vbSEO. Could this be vbSEO?

Originally Posted by My vBulletin Forum Post

Okay, so I did a search using a dozen or so different search terms about login issues and I found many many examples that are similar but it seems there is only about two or three solutions being offered.

Some things to assume. The server is configured properly that much is certain because I manage or own many vBulletin forums and others seem to work just fine.

However, a pair of bran-spanking-new vBulletin forums, one with a shiny new theme has a persistent login issue.

A member can login using the login box and is redirected as they should be only to notice that the login box still shows up instead of showing them logged in. If you hit F5 on your keyboard or simply browser refresh it then shows you logged in. Problem is that when a person makes a post, submits it, then gets redirected to the parent thread the post doesn't show up until again "refresh" of the page is done.

Now I've tried the three things suggested frequently in the forums here.
I've used the tools.php and then deleted it once done.
I've switched the theme to the default vBulletin theme.
I've verified cookies are enabled in the browsers.

I'm not against the idea that it could be my theme because it very well may be. However, that would not explain the issue being persistent when the default theme is activated and my cache is cleared in my browser.

I notice this is in all three top browsers the twin internet terrorists IE6 and IE7 and the liberator FireFox all experience the same problem. I even freed a repeat offending felon from prison, IE5.5 and tried it, same issue.

There is only one other thing I notice and that is an issue with two of the criminal browsers IE5 and IE6 I can't draw or drag my mouse across any post and highlight the text. I'm certain this is theme related, and I've isolated the issue to be with some of my CSS markup.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

~ Jared

Hi Jared,

Please try the steps described here: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/users-getting-logged-out-12752

Ace, dude, thanks for your lightening fast reply. I will do just that and let you know.

~ Jared

What is your forum URL?

Keith the URL is Pro Real Estate Network Forum - Real Estate Agents - Websites and the second one is Real Estate Forums - The Brokers Edge - Powered by vBulletin Both of these have been reverted back to default templates as I took down my designs figuring it could be that as a problem.

I also looked at the link ACE suggested and Its not quite the issue.

When someone logs in they either have to refresh the page to see that they are logged in or attempt to log in a second sometimes third time.

Then when posting we get redirected back to the forum thread but the new post does not show unless, again, we refresh the page.

~ Jared

*bump*

Do you have the last mod header turned on?

Jared,

Do you possibly have another account here? That domain is attached to a different Member account.

If possible, please log in using that account and submit a support ticket for troubleshooting.

Yeah I maintain about 15 vBulletin forums for people and design for more than that. I'll get the site owner to post a ticket too.

~ Jared

I promised a response once this was solved and here it is.

SOLVED! But with some info so you understand how and why.

It was pointed out after 4 Wasted days of valuable time that maybe it could be something simple with the procedures we normally follow when we design a forum and administer it. We had to ask the question;

What did I do differently with these forums that I DON'T normally do? Well given the recent brutal news about all those real estate site owners getting dropped from google because of linking schemes I figured I'd alter the HTACCESS to accomodate a known issue with the felony twins not background image caching as they should.

The Felony Twins are IE6 and IE7 naturally so using the following code we can force them both to cache images instead of beating up the server. My concern was the unusual increase in visits as a result of this thread being linked to all over the web.

Reciprocal Link Pages Dead? - Pro Real Estate Network Forum

The offending HTACCESS code is;

Code:

RewriteEngine On

## I use this to force IE to cache things it should cache
#ExpiresActive On
#ExpiresDefault A18000
#ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
#ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
#ExpiresByType image/png A2592000

## This I use to force www in the URL
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^prorealestatenetwork.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.prorealestatenetwork.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

By forcing IE to cache using the expires_active apache mod we experienced an issue with VBSEO in less than desirable results.

SOLUTION? Simple now, comment out the following lines
#ExpiresActive On
#ExpiresDefault A18000
#ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
#ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
#ExpiresByType image/png A2592000

~ Jared / seriously annoyed today

P.S. I want to thank each of those that participated in helping me solve this particularly the vbSEO people. You are the best.

~ Jared

Glad you got it solved

similiar problem.. can't login after I changed forum domain name.

problem is.. I can't log into admincp for forums or vbSEO admincp!!!

how do I approach this without actually being able to login into vbSEO?

Hello,

in case if you change domain name you should open a support ticket requesting your licensed URL update: http://www.vbseo.com/support/