Member View Switching - Firewall? CDN? Cache?

[406Northlane]

OK... tough to describe situation here that I'll try my best to describe.

Our forum was down for the majority of the day yesterday. One of our database tables got corrupted and has since been fixed.

We installed a firewall / CDN (at the server level) to keep out spammers.

The problem now is when I login and bump around the forums I'm being represented as a different USER as I jump around.

Example, I login it says "welcome Chewie" which is me. I can see all appropriate threads (I'm an admin), PMs, etc.

Then I click on HOME (which takes me to /index.php) and it says "Hello cbird65" (a mod). When I see this, I notice that ADMIN only forums are no longer visible.

If I remove the /index.php from the URL bar and just go directly to my forum home page (forum.killthecan.org) it says "Hello gdubya" (a regular member). All Mod / Admin threads are not visible.

When I click on /index.php?action=profile I'm back to cbird, when I click on My Message I'm seeing (presumably his messages) and I can read those PMs.

Click on calendar and I'm back to Chewie.

Something going on with my firewall? Caching? CDN? Do those products not play nicely with this software?

[vbgamer45]

It would either be caching/cdn.  Depending on the setup.

[406Northlane]

When I click on logout, I get this message:

Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again. and I am NOT logged out.

[Illori]

do you know exactly what was installed? please let us know and we can tell you better what the cause is.

[406Northlane]

https://www.secureserver.net/products/website-security?plid=479157 [nofollow] is the product that I installed. I've got it turned off currently and things seem to be OK.

[406Northlane]

https://www.secureserver.net/products/website-security?plid=479157 [nofollow] is the product that I installed. I've got it turned off currently and things seem to be OK.

Website Security Deluxe

[Illori]

that does not tell us what they actually did install.

[GigaWatt]

And even if it did, it's a server issue.

Try disabling any caching the firewall has (if it has any caching options, which I doubt from commercial products).

[HDB]

The below linked thread discussed this problem and the issue was that the host had a cache system called Varnish that was causing the problem.

https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=553551.0

[GigaWatt]

Didn't even think about Varnish cache.

@406Northlane: Ask your host to disable any caching on your server (account, if you're on a shared hosting plan) and see if that resolves the problem .