Big Kahuna 01-22-2006, 02:03 PM Portal = www.moparstyle.com (http://www.moparstyle.com/) (VBindex ?????)
Forum - www.moparstyle.com/forums (http://www.moparstyle.com/forums) (Vbulletin 3.0.7)
All was well until the other day.
I had a html guestbook that was getting spammed by everyone concerned with the size and stamina of the little guy, people wanting me to buy my drugs with them, and others wanting me to play poker-on-line -- so I made the guestbook a forum on my board so they'd have to register and login.
I go into cpanel to make a redirect from the old html page to the new guestbook forum -- and didn't test it.
About an hour later the complaints pour in that they get an error page instead of the Portal. So I go look at the redirect -- and see that I'd forgotten that Apache can't deal with a ? -- and somehow the redirect was redirecting www.moparstyle.com (http://www.moparstyle.com/) instead of the HTML page to a bogus url made out of the one with ?
No problem -- I go in and remove the redirect -- and boom, the Portal is back.
However now when you enter the site through the Portal and try to log in -- it won't accept your login and still considers you a guest. When you go to the forums -- you are a guest.
BUT -- If you log in to the Forums it rememebrs your login -- and recognizes you also at the Portal.
I know -- sounds like a cookie issue on the Portal. I've done nothing esle to the site except the adding and removing of the redirect. You can dump your cookies until you are blue in the face -- and it makes no difference.
Anyone ever have this problem -- or can give me a hint on how to fix? I've totally run out of things to do and have to fix this as I have vendors paying for the banners.
Joeychgo 01-22-2006, 04:11 PM Why dont you switch your portal to vBadvanced CMPS - its well supported and quite stable.
capebretoner 01-22-2006, 04:51 PM Why dont you switch your portal to vBadvanced CMPS - its well supported and quite stable.
I concurr, I have been using this for a couple of months and have nothad any issues, and there are few people that have had issues with it.
I know that really doesn't solve your current problem, but maybe someone else will be able to :)
Big Kahuna 01-23-2006, 06:46 AM I concurr, I have been using this for a couple of months and have nothad any issues, and there are few people that have had issues with it.
I know that really doesn't solve your current problem, but maybe someone else will be able to :)
You know I did the Vbindex Portal a couple of years ago -- and a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then. I can't find my notes on it -- and I don't think it is being developed and supported anymore. However, it did work fine until I did the redirect and removed it in Cpanel.
While I'm not opposed to going with VBadvanced -- I have some questionsbefore I'd consider it:
1. Will it solve the problem I'm having?
2. What's the link to get more information on it -- and download?
3. What's the proceedure of installing it on top of VBindex?
4. If I have to uninstall VBindex first -- how do I go about that?
My board is fairly large and backing up the database is time consuming -- and I assume restoring more time consuming if one doesn't like being installed on top of the other. I've been waiting for the wrinkles to iron out of 3.5.X before upgrading -- as I have a ton of hacks and viewing styles. I was hoping to skate by with what I had working until I got caught up enough in the rest of my life to be able to upgrade everything (portal, forum, photo albums. free classifieds, link site, .........) as it will be a major headache -- one that I want to do all at once and be done with.
So if anyone has a experienced by problem before and can suggest the solution -- I'd appreciate it.
Big Kahuna 01-23-2006, 07:42 AM Update that might mean something to someone
The account hosted is www.moparstyle.NET (http://www.moparstyle.net/)
I have the domains www.mopastyle.COM (http://www.mopastyle.com/) and www.moparstyle.ORG (http://www.moparstyle.org/) parked there.
.Net allows you to log in the Portal without problem. The parked domains do not. It wasn't like this before I added and removed the redirect. Does any of this make sense -- and does anyone have a solution?
mikelbeck 01-23-2006, 06:24 PM I went to www.moparstyle.com and logged in. It welcomed me back, had all my info. I clicked on "forums", and I went to the forum page with all my info. So it looks like I'm logged in fine through the portal?
Here's one thing, though... The user on the computer I'm logging in from has NEVER logged into your site, so I had no cookie for your domains at all.
If other people who have logged in, in the past are now not able to log in, I'd say there's a cookie issue going on. Have you asked people to clear their cookies and try again to see if the problem is still there?
Big Kahuna 01-24-2006, 10:50 AM I have -- and two answered that they have and continue to have had a problem.
I'll try it myslef again.
Thanx
mikelbeck 01-24-2006, 10:58 AM I have -- and two answered that they have and continue to have had a problem.
I'll try it myslef again.
Thanx
Anytime.
If you're on an XP box, create a new user account, log in as that user and then go to your site with using that account. Log in and see if you have the same issue.
capebretoner 01-24-2006, 11:34 AM 1. Will it solve the problem I'm having?
2. What's the link to get more information on it -- and download?
3. What's the proceedure of installing it on top of VBindex?
4. If I have to uninstall VBindex first -- how do I go about that?
1. I am not sure, since I am not familiar with VBindex, I am still new to the VB world
2. www.vbadvanced.com
3. see www.vbadvanced.com
4. See 1 ;)
Sorry I can't be more help
Big Kahuna 01-24-2006, 12:17 PM OK -- I found that if I cleared my cookies -- I could get to .ORG or .COM the first time and login -- then it would take me automatically to the forums (wierd). BUt if I went to the portal again from .COM or .ORG -- it for got me.
I did find a solution -- by setting a redirect from the root to www.moparstyle.NET/vbindex.php
It has to be a cookie issue with VBindex and parked domains. THose of you using VBadvanced -- do you also have .Net and .ORG doamins parked on you .COM hosting? If so do they work? If so are you a Windows server or Apache?
mikelbeck 01-24-2006, 01:09 PM It has to be a cookie issue with VBindex and parked domains. THose of you using VBadvanced -- do you also have .Net and .ORG doamins parked on you .COM hosting? If so do they work? If so are you a Windows server or Apache?
There's no reason why this shouldn't work, BK, unless you're doing some other redirect after the login. For example, if the user goes to domain.net and is redirected to domain.com to log in, it'll be fine. Or if they go to domain.net, log in there and then any link they click on will be in the same domain, it'll be fine. But if they go to domain.net, log in, and then click on a link that takes them to domain.com or domain.org they'll have a different cookie and won't be logged in properly. Is that what's going on with your sites?
I'm pretty sure that Joey is doing this with FABO. There's a .com, .net and .org going to the same place using VBavanced, IIRC.
mikelbeck 01-27-2006, 10:35 AM I think I've found the right way to do this.
Instead of parking your .net and .org domains on your .com, you want to create an add-on domain (in cPanel) for your .net and .org domains. Then setup a redirection for the .net and .org domains to the .com (in the add-on section in cPanel).
I just did this for givemeanace.com (the add-on domain), it's redirecting to gimmeanace.com. The cookie that I had stored for gimmeanace.com is still there and I was automagically logged into gimmeanace.com.
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