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WebDevandPhoto:
Hi, I'm setting up a site for giving options to view my themes on many open source forums and softwares.
I've installed MyBB, phpBB, Vanilla, SMF, FluxBB, OSclass, Wordpress.. all without much hassle, the OSclass was a short lived pain to setup.. but out of all of these... Simple Machines Forum is giving me the biggest head ache at the moment.

I am on a shared linux hosting server, Server API CGI/FastCGI,
PHP Version 5.3.13 with these configure commands:

--- Code: ---'./configure' '--prefix=/usr/local/php53' '--datadir=/usr/local/php53/share' '--localstatedir=/usr/local/php53/var' '--without-pear' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/php53' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php53/conf.d' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect' '--enable-trans-sid' '--with-zend-vm=GOTO' '--enable-cgi' '--enable-libxml=shared' '--enable-bcmath=shared' '--enable-calendar=shared' '--enable-ctype=shared' '--enable-dom=shared' '--enable-exif=shared' '--enable-fileinfo=shared' '--enable-filter=shared' '--enable-ftp=shared' '--enable-hash=shared' '--enable-intl=shared' '--enable-json=shared' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mbregex' '--enable-mbregex-backtrack' '--enable-pcntl=shared' '--enable-pdo' '--enable-phar=shared' '--enable-posix=shared' '--enable-session=shared' '--enable-shmop=shared' '--enable-simplexml=shared' '--enable-soap=shared' '--enable-sockets=shared' '--enable-sysvmsg=shared' '--enable-sysvsem=shared' '--enable-sysvshm=shared' '--enable-tokenizer=shared' '--enable-wddx=shared' '--enable-xml=shared' '--enable-xmlreader=shared' '--enable-xmlwriter=shared' '--enable-zip=shared' '--with-openssl=shared' '--with-kerberos' '--with-pcre-regex' '--with-sqlite3' '--with-zlib=shared' '--with-bz2=shared' '--with-curl=shared' '--with-gd=shared' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-gettext=shared' '--with-gmp=shared' '--with-mhash=shared' '--with-iconv=shared' '--with-imap=shared' '--with-imap-ssl' '--with-ldap=shared' '--with-mcrypt=shared' '--with-msql=shared' '--with-mysql=shared' '--with-mysql-sock=/No-MySQL-hostname-was-specified' '--with-mysqli=shared' '--with-pdo-mysql=shared' '--with-pdo-pgsql=shared' '--with-pdo-sqlite' '--with-pgsql=shared' '--with-pspell=shared' '--with-readline=shared' '--with-sqlite=shared' '--with-tidy=shared' '--with-xmlrpc=shared' '--with-xsl=shared'
--- End code ---

I've given SMF it's own database.

I am using Cloudflare free edition.

I have denied access for all except me with the SMF root dir .htaccess
Note: this does cause load issues as Cloudflare doesn't cache CSS properly when only allowing my own IP in .htaccess
incase anyone needs that apache code:

--- Code: ---Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from [IP goes here without brackets]

--- End code ---

THE PROBLEM:
After a successful install of SMF 2.0.2 I can login with the admin account on index.php fine; HOWEVER, if I try to logout OR go to any of the 4 admin sections (Features and Options, Package Manager, Error Log, Permissions) I get this error, "Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again."

I've tried:
Renaming cookie
All major browsers (Firefox,Chrome,Opera,IE,Safari)
Used the repair_settings.php
Searched Google and this forum for hours for a solution unsuccessfully

Note:
This issue has been in effect for me since the moment completing SMF installation as I could not "log out" via the forum and I was given there, "Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again" error message.

Kays:
Hi, welcome to SMF. :)

I don't know if this is the solution but it's something to check. Go into the Admin CP> Server Settings > Cookies and Sessions and verify the following:

Enable local storage of cookies - unchecked
Use subdomain independent cookies - checked
Use database driven sessions - checked

You might need to log out and then back in again.

WebDevandPhoto:
Since this error pops up when trying to access Admin cp, I'll have to change those setting manually via editing php? I suppose I could do a source search and find it.. I'll give it a try. thank you for the suggestion.

Edit:
I looked through the source for everything that called for the language variables for the options you listed above, the first being "localCookies" and did not find any variables that I could declare in php.. are these options stored in the database? and if so which table?

Kays:
They're kept in the settings table. Look for localCookies, globalCookies, and databaseSession_enable. The recommended values are 0, 1 , 1.

Also try clearing your coookies and sessions if you haven't done so already.

WebDevandPhoto:
in smf_settings table in the MySQL database there's:
smfVersion    2.0.2
   Edit    Delete    news    SMF - Just Installed!
   Edit    Delete    compactTopicPagesContiguous
   Edit    Delete    compactTopicPagesEnable
   Edit    Delete    enableStickyTopics
   Edit    Delete    todayMod
   Edit    Delete    karmaMode
   Edit    Delete    karmaTimeRestrictAdmins
   Edit    Delete    enablePreviousNext
   Edit    Delete    pollMode
   Edit    Delete    enableVBStyleLogin
   Edit    Delete    enableCompressedOutput
   Edit    Delete    karmaWaitTime
   Edit    Delete    karmaMinPosts
   Edit    Delete    karmaLabel    Karma:
   Edit    Delete    karmaSmiteLabel    [smite]
   Edit    Delete    karmaApplaudLabel    [applaud]
   Edit    Delete    attachmentSizeLimit
   Edit    Delete    attachmentPostLimit
   Edit    Delete    attachmentNumPerPostLimit
   Edit    Delete    attachmentDirSizeLimit
   Edit    Delete    attachmentUploadDir
   Edit    Delete    attachmentExtensions
   Edit    Delete    attachmentCheckExtensions
   Edit    Delete    attachmentShowImages
   Edit    Delete    attachmentEnable
   Edit    Delete    attachmentEncryptFilenames
   Edit    Delete    attachmentThumbnails
   Edit    Delete    attachmentThumbWidth
   Edit    Delete    attachmentThumbHeight

I nulled the values in this post for a little bit of privacy, but I don't see the settings you said.
Maybe I'm missing something?

Edit:
AH, my phpadmin didn't show there was multiple pages, even so.. for variables starting with "L" such as localCookies:
    Edit    Delete    lastActive
   Edit    Delete    last_mod_report_action
   Edit    Delete    latestMember
   Edit    Delete    latestRealName
Above is all there is for anything starting with "L'... are you sure you gave me the right table to look into?

EDIT 2:
I FIXED IT!!
Deleting my old "Forever" Session in the smf_sessions table in the database fixed the session error and allowed me to adjust server settings! YAY!

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