New post cookie issues when Forums = Home

Involved Joined: Jul 25, 2006 Posts: 354

I have made Forums the homepage, but have found that because the main url is now the forum, you only see new posts when the url has:

/modules.php?name=Forums

Has anyone heard of issues when Home is also Forums?

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:18 pm

Is there a way to force 'Home' to redirect to /modules.php?name=Forums

So the cookies work and show new posts etc.?

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:45 pm

Have you tried to change the script path in phpbb admin to / to see if that fixes the cookie issue? You will also want to delete your existing cookies to test it.

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:24 pm

It is currently set as

/modules/Forums/

Should I change it to just /

?

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:25 pm

Try setting it to / and see if the cookies work. You will need to delete your cookies to test it. It my not work, just an idea.

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:37 pm

Ok

now I just have to wait until someone makes a new post to see if it works :p

Thanks for your suggestions, I will post again if the issue is not fixed.

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:12 pm

Thanks!

That worked =D

Very happy about that

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:34 pm

What should 'Cookie domain' be?

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:45 pm

.yourdomain.com

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:56 pm

Should it have a / on the end?

ie. .yourdomain.com/

Because I have another weird thing happening.

When you are on domain.com the forum info shows you not logged in (ie. A msg to log in to view private msgs etc. - but users ARE logged in)

Then when you go to yourdomain.com/modules.php?name=Forums it then shows you as logged in

why would this be?

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:59 pm

I'm also not sure what I should be putting in:

Domain name
and
Script path

Now that /modules.php?name=Forums is also the 'Home'

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:18 am

Anyone have an idea of what may be causing this?

A cookie issue I might be able to rectify?

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:13 pm

This seems to only happen once someone has visited the website.

IE.

The first time an already registered user visits the website on website.com (with forum as 'Home') the forum looks as though they are not logged in. The horizontal bar accross the top of the forum informs them to 'Log in' but the User Info block on the side of the website shows them as logged in (and they are).

If the user then visits website.com/modules.php?name=Forums it will show them as logged in

If they then click 'Home' (which is the forums, but the url returns to website.com) then it will continue to show them as logged in.

It appears that only the first time you go back to the website.com the forums appear to not SHOW that you are logged in, even though the website knows you are.......

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:18 pm

Please, can someone confirm how to fix this issue?