Ugh, Users keep getting logged out

Private Joined: May 21, 2003 Posts: 45

Users on my site keep getting logged out - I have almost everything set so you have to be a registered user to see anything. A person can be cruising thru the site with no problems then boom - they get the message they have to be a registered user to view this part of the site and are forced to relogin. Needless to say this is frustrating people immensely and driving them away from the site.

Anyone have an idea what could be causing this? Could something have a session time limit? If so how to extend it or disable it.

Thanks!

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jul 02, 2003 Posts: 29

Check your cookie settings, within the forum admin section. Look under Configuration.

Generally, you can leave them blank, but try setting them like this:

Cookie domain will be your address. In my case, it's set as audioeditplus.no-ip.com. If your address starts with WWW, then start the cookie domain with a . , so it would look like this: .yoursite.com

I left the cookie name as phpbb2mysql, but you can name it whatever you want. Put the cookie path as /, make sure SSL is disabled, and set the session length at 0. That should make it an infinite session.

Private Joined: May 21, 2003 Posts: 45

Unfortunately this is not a forum issue this is happening in the various modules such as news, downloads, etc. The forums are not currently even being used. Sad

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jul 02, 2003 Posts: 29

yeah, but try the cookie settings anyway. The forum module is technically still *active*, if only in the admin functions. As far as I can tell, Nuke uses the built-in cookie feature of phpBB, probably because it was easier to integrate the existing forum cookie settings, rather than write a whole new script, and try to disable it in phpBB.....if that made any sense.

The whole of Nuke uses the phpBB cookies, in other words.