members uable to register
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Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: members uable to register
Posted By: samir
Subject: members uable to register
Date Posted: 15 September 2004 at 4:05pm
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no one can register because the error...cookies must be enabled in order to register and new code will appear ------------- samir aziz |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 16 September 2004 at 4:32am
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This error is covered in a large number of posts. The error means that your site can not correctly set and read back in cookies. Things that prevent sites from setting cookies correctly include IP/domain masking, domain forwarding, frames, etc. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Grez
Date Posted: 16 September 2004 at 10:40am
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well how are we supposed to fix it so people can ? or maybe take out the unique security code ?
could you do a new register.asp with the unique security taken out ?
please heres mine http://n.1asphost.com/grez/test/forum/register.asp?FID=0 - http://n.1asphost.com/grez/test/forum/register.asp?FID=0 if it doesnt worki think im gonna use phpbb forums ------------- www.teamhalo.co.uk |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 17 September 2004 at 4:23am
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You didn't mention you where using the free web host 1 ASP Host. They recently changed their servers so Web Wiz Forums will no longer work on their servers by disabling allot of features of ASP. This is the problem with free web hosts as they disable allot of things as their free accounts are just to give you a taster and if you want to use the more advanced features of ASP to be able to run things like forums then they try to get you to upgrade to a paid account. How else though do you think they will make money, it costs allot of money to be a web host, so they won't give you everything for nothing. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: samir
Date Posted: 18 September 2004 at 2:16pm
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but I paid for the web host so how come it did not work..do advice to change this web host ------------- samir aziz |
Posted By: cjacks
Date Posted: 20 September 2004 at 9:05pm
| I have having alot of "I can not get registered" issues myself. I do not think it is the server and cookies. I have tested and re-tested many times and each time worked as advertised. So should cookies be a concern (other than whether or not the user has them turned off on thier side). I think it is a combination of email types (AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail) and incorrect email address's placed in the registration form. I added in the reg. email the script sends to ensure the link is copied and pasted into a browser window. However is there anything we can do to have the user enter the email 2 times to double check the email address. Sort of like having to place the password in the system twice. I notice alot of systems are doing this now. Or another sugestion, allow a user that has not been verified, update settings so they can double check thier email address. Any thoughts on this issue? I know no matter what the scripts can do, human error will always come in to play. |
Posted By: cjacks
Date Posted: 20 September 2004 at 9:08pm
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I would ask them to fix thier system to my needs (even if it may cost some extra cash). and if they didn't I would be finding a new host. I hate it when a web host has hardly anything to offer in server side support or sets up their server so secure nothing can be done with it. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 September 2004 at 4:20am
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You didn't metion exactly why the user can not register. Is it an error or are they not getting emails through? Also you mention poeple with Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc. addresses, these types of email accounts get spammed allot and as a result they tend to bounce back most emails that are generated by scripts on web sites. The only solution is to ban these email addresses from signing up so that the user is forced to use another email address, this way any activation emails are more likely to get through. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: markomeara
Date Posted: 22 September 2004 at 12:29pm
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I too have had problems with people being able to register. I think I have found the problem. - and the solution but it needs to be verified... I have a site with 1200 users and about 6-10 new registrations each week. .... studentloans are hell in canada! My site helps people with these problems. I think this is the problem.... If a user registers and turns on the "automatically log me in" but then forgets to activate, and then reregisters under a different name, and then tries to activate, they cant. Or if they try to register and their cookie settings arent correct, and the registration fails, and then try to re-register under a different name then above happens too... I suspect the "automatically log me in" creates a cookie on registration, but then when they return to the forum... WWF searches for a cookie for username and password, but the login would fail... and if they re-register then the cookie has the older username and password . I would need to look more deeply into the source code to see when the cookie is being created.. but this seems to be the common scenario that causes the registration problem for a select number of registrants. 98% of registrations happen ok... Having the user delete all cookies on their machine seems to clear up the problem. This might also be a problem as a result of people trying to register from a public computer where the cookie is set and not cleared...not quite sure about this though.... I could be totally off the mark on this but it seems to be the only pattern I can think of... in each case, deleting cookies resolved the inability to register and activate. Mark |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 September 2004 at 3:03am
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I found the problem the other day and have fixed it for the next version. If a user registers, then they login using the login page before they activate their account a new usercode is created for them. This means that when they try to activate their account with their original actiavtion email containing their original usercode it can not be found in the database. Users need to activate their acounts before logging in or use the resend activation email tool. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: all-in
Date Posted: 09 March 2005 at 1:06am
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Hey I'm experiencing this too. I'm running an older version and I have modified serveral pages for my site so I can't do a flash upgrade.
Which files have been updated?
Thanks
Chris
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 09 March 2005 at 5:20am
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Have a look in the Version History file that comes with the application and is also found on the forum download page.
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Posted By: all-in
Date Posted: 09 March 2005 at 11:00am
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I realized my version is up to date - 7.9. Your note says you fixed the bug for the next version - which I'm guessing isn't out yet. Is there anyway I can get you to post the fix here so I can update my site? For me this is affecting 2/3 of my new sign-ups. I don't know if they are impatient or what. Many Thanks
Chris
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Posted By: all-in
Date Posted: 10 March 2005 at 8:20pm
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Any luck with posting the fix?
Thanks
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 March 2005 at 5:28am
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Change the following in the file login_user.asp:- Change line 128 to:- strSQL = "SELECT " & strDbTable & "Author.Password, " & strDbTable & "Author.Salt, " & strDbTable & "Author.Username, " & strDbTable & "Author.Author_ID, " & strDbTable & "Author.User_code, " & strDbTable & "Author.Active " Change line 168 to:- blnActive = CBool(rsCommon("Active")) If blnActive Then strUserCode = userCode(strUsername) ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: all-in
Date Posted: 11 March 2005 at 10:27am
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I tried it and ran into a few problems. Here's how I fixed it:
Change line 168 to:
'For extra security create a new user code for the user
dim blnActive -it complained this wasn't declared blnActive = CBool(rsCommon("Active")) If blnActive Then strUserCode = userCode(strUsername) Else 'don't change it - if you don't put the existing user code back in, then the strUserCode says empty and in line 170 when you try to do the db update, it complains you can't update the db with a null value.
strUserCode = rsCommon("User_code") End if I've tested this and it does resolve the problem.
Thanks for your help.
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Posted By: xcony
Date Posted: 21 March 2005 at 10:52pm
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Marvellous! Exact what solved my prob, too. Thanks for your sharing!
XCONY ------------- - 4thozwhoneedsigz.readthiz |