Weird Behavior from SMF on our Site...

[xiphirx]

Hello SMF users and developers,

I have been a long time user of SMF, and I recently took a job to help develop a website. I chose SMF for our forum, and started to develop with it. Everything has been great so far with the ssi and all, but I'm noticing some odd behavior...

I'll list them:

1) When you login using the home page (not the forum index, but a custom portal) it always states that your password is wrong, even if it is right...
2) The recent posts ssi include on the homepage indicates that topics you've seen are new, and topics you haven't seen are not new...
3) When you view "unread replies", nothing appears, while there should be posts appearing. Similarly, the unread link returns nothing, when, in fact it should. Adding onto this, I have to click "Click here to try all unread topics" to get the results that unread should have garnerd...

I may be missing a ssi include that sets up base variables... not sure. The custom portal is a page within SMF, as in, you access it by visiting forum/index.php?action=home

The website url is fortheswarm (dot) org (I can't post links, good spam measure ) if that's needed.

Any help is appreciated.

[xenovanis]

Hello

Where's the SMF copyright?
http://www.simplemachines.org/about/copyright.php
http://www.simplemachines.org/about/license.php

The website url is http://fortheswarm.org (I can't post links, good spam measure ) if that's needed.

[xiphirx]

Hello

Where's the SMF copyright?
http://www.simplemachines.org/about/copyright.php
http://www.simplemachines.org/about/license.php

The website url is http://fortheswarm.org (I can't post links, good spam measure ) if that's needed.

At the bottom, where it usually is...

I believe you aren't seeing it because of the toolbar that appears, clicking on the bottom right button collapses it

[xenovanis]

Yeah, well it should be visible at all times.

[xiphirx]

Yeah, well it should be visible at all times.

Fixed.

[xenovanis]

Thank you I must say your theme is awesome.

Now, I noticed that the url for the frontpage is http://fortheswarm.org/
The link to the forum refers to http://www.fortheswarm.org/

However, all links on the forum refer to http://fortheswarm.org/

In Admin -> Server Settings -> Feature Configuration, is the option "Use subdomain independent cookies" enabled?

[xiphirx]

Thank you I must say your theme is awesome.

Now, I noticed that the url for the frontpage is http://fortheswarm.org/
The link to the forum refers to http://www.fortheswarm.org/

However, all links on the forum refer to http://fortheswarm.org/

In Admin -> Server Settings -> Feature Configuration, is the option "Use subdomain independent cookies" enabled?

Yes it is checked.

[xenovanis]

Does this behaviour also happen when using the default theme?

[xiphirx]

I can't really test all of the problems with the default theme since most of them are caused by theme specific things...

I was able to test the unread and unread reply problems, and they work normally using the default theme...

EDIT: I just reverted back to the normal theme... they function normally on that theme as well... I have a feeling I have messed up cookies.

[Jakob Fel]

Try clearing those cookies anyways; maybe that will help.

Also, if the SMF copyright is hidden, doesn't it render your forum dysfunctional?

[xiphirx]

Try clearing those cookies anyways; maybe that will help.

Also, if the SMF copyright is hidden, doesn't it render your forum dysfunctional?

It wasn't hidden through code, the view of it was obscured by the toolbar on the site.

Anyway, I have cleared cookies, but I am still getting the same problems...

[Jakob Fel]

Okay, I thought you meant that the code made it invisible.

Also, sorry that I can't think of anything else to help you, other than if you have a script blocker such as NoScript, make sure your site is on the trusted list, as I had to add it to the list, or else it didn't look quite right.

[xiphirx]

Okay, I thought you meant that the code made it invisible.

Also, sorry that I can't think of anything else to help you, other than if you have a script blocker such as NoScript, make sure your site is on the trusted list, as I had to add it to the list, or else it didn't look quite right.

I do not have an extension like that...

[Jakob Fel]

What browser are you using?

[xenovanis]

What are your cookie and sessions settings, apart from having subdomain independent cookies being enabled?

[xiphirx]

What browser are you using?

Firefox 3

What are your cookie and sessions settings, apart from having subdomain independent cookies being enabled?

Enable local storage: false
Cookie name: SMFCookie46

Those are all of the settings I found...

I am using SSI's on custom forum action pages (?action=mypage) ... Could this be the cause?

[Jakob Fel]

It could be either, but I wouldn't think it would be Firefox. I am now leaning more towards your cookie settings rather than the browser. I would assume (Not sure) that you would want to put:

Enable local storage: true

I don't think your SSIs are the issue, but I may be wrong.

[xiphirx]

It could be either, but I wouldn't think it would be Firefox. I am now leaning more towards your cookie settings rather than the browser. I would assume (Not sure) that you would want to put:

Enable local storage: true

I don't think your SSIs are the issue, but I may be wrong.

Enable local storage of cookies
(SSI won't work well with this on.)

Is it safe to turn it on? Won't all of my SSI's stop working?

And it seems like I need local storage to be off in order to use subdomain independent cookies...

[Jakob Fel]

Oh right, I forgot about that. Well, sorry, but I'm out of suggestions at the moment. I'll come back if I think of anything.

[xiphirx]

I have just thought of something.

I'm not too savvy on the method modifications use to modify files, but I believe it is based on a fixed line number. I created a custom theme, and then installed around 3 different modifications... Could this be the cause? Off the top of my head, I installed the custom profile fields mod, the stop forum spammer mod, and the aeva mod. The forum wasn't rendered dysfunctional, but it may have replaced an important line... I will update this topic with my theme templates if anyone is willing to go through and see if there's anything missing... (probably not)