Move Successful -READ: If you have trouble logging in to SRF

Ghan_04 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:04 am

It appears the move to the new server has been a success. Please let me know if there are any problems, either with a PM or an email to ghan.04@gmail.com. Thanks!

<<Changed thread to global announcement. - Ru>>

cpinney · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:43 am

i am not sure if it moved fully up to date, some of my newer posts are missing.

supermando · **Joined:** Jun 2009 **Posts:** 183 **Location:**

dunno if its related, but only today every time i visit srf it doesnt login me automatically, even i checked the box to login everytime i visit.

cpinney · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:55 am

yeah it is making me re-log in every new page i go to.

RuYi · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 7145 **Location:** Done.

Please don't make use of the navigation menu on the left side as you'll be logged out. Sorry for the inconvenience.

EDIT: Signature editing/previewing is no longer working for me, can anyone confirm they have the same problem? - Apparently it's just me, then. Thanks for the help.

EDIT2: Returning to http://www.silkroadforums.com seems to log me out each time.

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

ofy1993 wrote:

Ah so I'm not alone.

No your not alone.. xD
It's hella annoying to Re: log every time.

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

RuYi wrote:

Please don't make use of the navigation menu on the left side as you'll be logged out. Sorry for the inconvenience.

EDIT: Signature editing/previewing is no longer working for me, can anyone confirm they have the same problem? - Apparently it's just me, then. Thanks for the help.

EDIT2: Returning to http://www.silkroadforums.com seems to log me out each time.

Cant edit/preview sigs either

TheKnight · **Joined:** Apr 2009 **Posts:** 3067 **Location:**

When I press some of the gategories, Like GD ar AC, View Your Posts and New Posts buttonns disappear. and I have to re-login brfotr I can write anything.

vietxboy911 · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 3236 **Location:**

I was getting pretty pissed off about it, cause i use the left bar all the time lol

XMoshe · **Posted:** Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:22 pm

When do you think it'll be fixed Ru?

DarkJackal · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 6119 **Location:** A den~

RuYi wrote:

Please don't make use of the navigation menu on the left side as you'll be logged out. Sorry for the inconvenience.

EDIT: Signature editing/previewing is no longer working for me, can anyone confirm they have the same problem? - Apparently it's just me, then. Thanks for the help.

EDIT2: Returning to http://www.silkroadforums.com seems to log me out each time.

Same here with the sig.

Also bookmarks. Bookmark this page, come back later and need to update it after logging in again.

heroo · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 6618 **Location:**

being logged out everytime i click anything, i thought it had to do with me installing windows 7 today, but it's a servererror i see.

Shiver · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 334 **Location:** Ephesus

Same same same

TheKnight · **Joined:** Apr 2009 **Posts:** 3067 **Location:**

Weird, topic says its locked and can't post, but you can post by quoting...

RuYi · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 7145 **Location:** Done.

XMoshe wrote:

When do you think it'll be fixed Ru?

I wish I knew, Ryoko and Ghan are currently looking into it, I can't do anything besides passing them links that might be helpful, as I can't dig in the code. Not that I would know how to fix it if I had access rofl.

I can only ask you to be patient and deal with it for now, and should you encounter new problems, please report them in this thread. Should you have trouble with replying, try to quote or start a new thread in Site Discussion, and I'll merge it into this thread.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the inconvenience.

Ryoko · **Joined:** Dec 2005 **Posts:** 6390 **Location:**

Over the years we've had much luck with server moves.

Not so lucky this time. Ghan and I are all over it. I know its annoying but the root of the problem is as such.

When you use a link on the left, or direct URL it doesn't include the "&sid=" part of the URL. It never has, but its never a problem. Your session data is stored locally and in your cookies.

This is not happening. Therefore, when you use a URL without the "&sid=" your session is lost and your forced to log in.

Signatures? Seem to be working, as I have edited mine. Use the links at the top navigation; they include the "&sid="

Whats more odd, is that two boards work, and one does not. =(

DarkJackal · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 6119 **Location:** A den~

Still blank page here when trying to change sigs

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Shiver · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 334 **Location:** Ephesus

The good side to this: less nonsense threads in GD.

The bad side: less threads overall?

DarkJackal · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 6119 **Location:** A den~

Sacch says she can't post at all, even after logging in again, it logs her back out.

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

Logs me out when I use the navigational menu on the left side ):

Panu · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 3536 **Location:** Around

CrimsonNuker wrote:

Logs me out when I use the navigational menu on the left side ):

They are well aware of that Crim. lol

Ryoko · **Joined:** Dec 2005 **Posts:** 6390 **Location:**

Useing some echo statements, I had the board spit out some of its variables and found that
1. There is a cookie, written properly.
2. That &sid= is stored in that cookie, properly.
3. The board wasn't reading the cookie properly, forcing people to use &sid=

I hack-fixed the session.php file to bypass some of PHPBB's code and manually accept the cookie data.

I appear, to stay logged in. Yet, I see no users online, which has me curious o.O

Some other notes

3.06 version board (http://www.aftersixraiding.net) works fine on this server.
3.04 version board (silkroadforums.com, maliciouskt.net) did not work

Opening functions.php for both versions, it seems the code for getting the cookie data was revamped; IE solved in 3.06. The big puzzle tho... why does it work on one server, and not another?

/looks over at Ghan

I believe its because on the old server, register_globals was turned on.
On this server, it is confirmed off, by phpinfo();

Quote:

register_globals boolean
Whether or not to register the EGPCS (Environment, GET, POST, Cookie, Server) variables as global variables.

As of » PHP 4.2.0, this directive defaults to off.

Please read the security chapter on Using register_globals for related information.

Please note that register_globals cannot be set at runtime (ini_set()). Although, you can use .htaccess if your host allows it as described above. An example .htaccess entry: php_flag register_globals off .

cpinney wrote:

i am not sure if it moved fully up to date, some of my newer posts are missing.

The only way to avoid *some* post casualties is to shut the board down for a day, change over the name server, waiting a day for it to propogate across the net, then switching on the new board.

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

Yess, I just noticed its fixed, thank you very much

Ryoko · **Joined:** Dec 2005 **Posts:** 6390 **Location:**

Good to know.

Now I need to know if people can edit their sigs / avatars etc. Mine edit fine (see sig.)

However, 2am has taken its toll. Sleep.

karimgh · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:04 am

YES!! Its fixed. Now i can go to any page whenever i want without logging out

Thnx in advance

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

Still can't edit or preview my sig

DarkJackal · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 6119 **Location:** A den~

chrisorg wrote:

Still can't edit or preview my sig

Same ;d.

Ryoko · **Joined:** Dec 2005 **Posts:** 6390 **Location:**

Yeah yeah yeah... but isn't it nice to click "Forum Home" on the left again?!?! YA!

We'll look into using the UCP next.

TheKnight · **Joined:** Apr 2009 **Posts:** 3067 **Location:**

Just got Level up to 48 (You can congratulate me) and can't edit it to my sig

DarkJackal · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 6119 **Location:** A den~

Ryoko wrote:

Yeah yeah yeah... but isn't it nice to click "Forum Home" on the left again?!?! YA!

We'll look into using the UCP next.

Very lol.

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