Happy Hammer wrote:

I'm having MAJOR problems staying logged in. Looking at the level of contributions overnight I'd guess others are in the same boat? Flushed DNS settings, cleared all cookies, tried the site using just the IP address and even tried installing a completely new browser, still having the same problems. Not sure if it has anything to do with it but the host name of the site is different since the switch over. Originally it was pronetworks.org and now the hyphen has gone so it's pronetworks.org, all one word. Could be causing problems with the log in cookies? Edit - It would appear that if you use any of the buttons that have the pronetworks.org address hard coded in then you get logged back out. If you just navigate the forums using the links within the phpbb template you're fine.

Yeah, I've been having some problems staying logged it too. Any link that is http//www.pro-networks.org/ has some problems.

Um... not really.
When you are logged in, going to the "New Posts" page whose URL is http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/search.php?search_id=newposts will log you out. But if you copy that URL and append it with your current sid variable, you won't be logged out.

For example, if you are currently on this thread whose URL is:
http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=100171&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20&sid=0123456789

Entering the "New Posts" URL as:
http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/search.php?search_id=newposts&sid=0123456789

will allow you to see the new posts without getting logged out.

Since the link URL doesn't include the sid variable and the sid is not yet set as cookies, the web server will forget the user and log him/her out.

Anyway, it seems like DNS issue as John said. I've already flushed my DNS cache, but both old and new host names are translated into the same IP. I'll try checking the DNS server also.

It's the domain, you all are right. The forum/site is hard coded using the domain with a "-" and we've changed the primary domain to now be the "pronetworks.org" without the dash.

So I suspect that's a major issue. I've contacted Eric on this and we'll sort it out ASAP I hope.

Great.
Both pronetworks.org and pronetworks.org are already set to the new host.
I didn't even realize I was already using the new host the whole day.

What do you all think honestly about switching to the new domain without the "-"

Worth the trouble of updating all our links? I like it without the "-" but I just can't help but wonder if anyone else will really care that much.

I always screw it up because I use pronetworks.org. But it really doesn't matter because it will all points to the same place.

It seems 'cleaner' without the hyphen, to be honest, but whether most people would notice, I'm not too sure. The server converts pronetworks.org to pronetworks.org when you click on it anyway (mod_rewrite, I would guess) so most people wouldn't even realise, it's just the stuff to do with cookies and the sid values thats causing problems.

I'll just update my hard links when I can get onto the new server then.

I think he actually has apache doing it, the routing I mean. I do a similar thing with Apache at HSO, by changing anything that ends in ".php" to be ".html"

I wish I knew more about how all that works... I find it fascinating.

kanaloa wrote:

I wish I knew more about how all that works... I find it fascinating.

It's, most likely, the Apache mod_rewrite module. It uses regular expressions to change values from one thing to another. So your rule for converting php extensions to html would read something like...

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*).php$ (.*).html

Meaning anything that ends in .php will be converted into .html.

It's better to leave the "-" out.
Most people who know PROnetworks for the first time would most likely to use "pronetworks" rather than "pro-networks" when trying to guess the website URL.