Active topics not working. Cookies problem??
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Topic: Active topics not working. Cookies problem??
Posted By: cbr600
Subject: Active topics not working. Cookies problem??
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 9:37am
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Hello all. I have my forum for over 3 years now, installed version 8.04 3 months ago and all was fine. But lately (past 6 days), without any modification being made, when a (any) user goes to Active topics, it remembers only the actual date, and not the last visit date. For instance, if i visited the forum 2 days ago and enter the active topics page, it displays the normal active topics from my last visit, but when o try to go to the next page (page 2 for instance), it assumes my last visit date as now and displays no active topics at all. It isnt also passing the ?AT querystring (dont now if it did before) and forgets the last visit date. The same happens when im in the admin area. After 2 or 3 pages inside the admin area, it forgets who i am, and returns the message of access denied. Any ideas what it can be? Thanks to any help. |
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Posted By: neoplof
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 3:42pm
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If this helps... it also happens to me. It might have to be with language settings or so as you are portuguese and my forum spanish.
The weird thing is that some of my users can see active topics, and some other can't.
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Posted By: cbr600
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 5:13pm
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yes, exacly. But it was working fine for the past 3 months and i didnt change a thing. I suppose it has something to do with the date format, and although sometimes it shows all active topics on all pages, most of the times it doesnt. But it also happens when im in admin area, as it forgets who i am and gives a "access denied" warning. |
Posted By: neoplof
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 5:20pm
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i have "discovered" that in my office, Windows XP doenst show active topics but windows 2000 does.. WHYYY???
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Posted By: cbr600
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 9:29am
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if you enter the active topics page, it automaticaly assumes your last visit date as now(), regardless of when you last visited the site.
It also happens that when you enter the forum and have private messages, every page you open it pops up the "you have x nem PM messages" message. Before it just warned you once. Something is being lost and i dont know what.
HELP!
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 9:43am
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These issues sounds like a problem with the web server you are using holding the ASP session correctly. Contact your web server administrator and ask them to look into the issue.
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Posted By: neoplof
Date Posted: 26 February 2007 at 2:52pm
yes, but if it is the a server problem. why some computers show activetopics and some others doesn't?
MIght be a problem of language set or so??
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-boRg- wrote:Posted By: neoplof
Date Posted: 27 February 2007 at 8:22am
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Yesterday, my computer began showing active topics. I have cleared cookies and history and now it doesnt show any result again. Another computer that is here shows active topics correctly, always. I'd appreciate any suggestion to where investigate..
:)
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 February 2007 at 9:11am
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IE does have bad problems with it's cookie cache becoming corrupted, and it seems they have not addressed this with IE 7. Microsoft themselves suggest that you first delete all Internet files, then delete all cookies to fix any issues with it's cookie index. Other things like firewalls and internet security software can effect how javascript, cookies, etc. work. Changing settings in these programs and security levels can effect how web sites work. ------------- 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: neoplof
Date Posted: 28 February 2007 at 7:56am
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thanks http://forums.webwiz.net/member_profile.asp?PF=1&FID=18 - boRg .
Anyways, this problem appears both using IE 6 and Firefox. Due to - I beleive some cookies or so - when everything is clean and there is no cookies or sessions, active topics dont show up.
When I obtain some cookies, I dont know from where, - maybe this forum ? ;-) ... active topics appear... and I dont know the reason.
When I post, ie, active topics work after my post. weird.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 28 February 2007 at 8:55am
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This is starting to sound like some type of corruption in one of the files or some modification you have made to the forum which is screwing things up. Maybe best to re-upload the original files again and see if that resolves the problem. You may also want to check you have not changed the local that the code runs in by changing the LCID within the code. ------------- 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: neoplof
Date Posted: 02 March 2007 at 12:28pm
oops! in fact, I have tried to insert lcid=1034 (spain) in active_topics.asp to be sure the forum is dealing with the date properly (BTW, changes made with full license), but nothing has changed.
might be a server problem, what I should check in the server?, is dedicated. thanks.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 02 March 2007 at 12:57pm
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You shouldn't need to chnage the LCID number, and this could well be why you are getting the problem. Remove any LCID number changes from the forum and see if the forum begins to strat working correctly in the next few days. Also clear out your cookie cache. The LCID number change was only required in version 7.x, in version 8.x dates use ISO internation date and time formats to prevent date errors bewteen locales, databases, etc. By changing the LCID you could mess this up. ------------- 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: neoplof
Date Posted: 05 March 2007 at 11:54am
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thanks, I'll let you know.
:)
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Posted By: mrg1
Date Posted: 17 March 2007 at 10:01pm
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But what to do when active topics aren't active topics anymore? Let's say you use home computer and office's computer. Every time when you access a forum they will show last active topics based on date/time when you accessed forum from THAT computer, not based the last visit irrespective what machine it was used to do that...
Of course it is based on cookies, but there is some workaround, knowing the fact that this info is stored into Last_visit field? |