Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then

[brucegust]

I've done some digging on this forum and I know this question has been posed in various forms and iterations, but I wanted to get someone to look at my specific scenario.

My client is the administrator of the site. She successfully logs into the forum, but then is routed to another login page when she clicks on "Admin." At that point, she enters her credentials and is given the message, "Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again."

Her code is antiquated and I've had to update different areas of her site and I'm inclined to think that this might be a similar problem.

However...

I wanted some minds greater than my own who may have encountered and solved this problem to help me out.

What do you think?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Doesn't sound like 2.1.  Which version are you actually running?

[brucegust]

Hello, Sir!

Forgive me, I'm brand new to "Simple Machines." While I'm confident it is antiquated, I don't know where to look in order to find out the version. Where do I go to get that info for you?

[Illori]

in the footer/copyright.

[brucegust]

SMF 2.0.7 © 2013 Simple Machines

[Sir Osis of Liver]

It's not antiquated, it's just 8 updates behind.  If you or admin has access to the database, look in smf_settings table and change securityDisable to '0'.

[brucegust]

Hey, friend!

Thanks for getting back with me. I downloaded the entire sql file and did a search for "securityDisable" and nothing came back.

I do have access to the database. Could it be a different setting?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

  Don't mess with that, use phpmyadmin to change the setting.

[brucegust]

What I'm saying is that there is no "securityDisable" column heading in any of the tables. I downloaded the entire sql file in order to do a search just to make certain I wasn't missing something.

I'm wondering if you didn't mean a different column heading?

BTW: Thanks for your time! If this is a problem that can be solved simply by changing a value in the database, well...life can't be any better!

[Kindred]

it's not a column heading.

it's a variable and a value combination in the smf_settings table

[Sir Osis of Liver]

It doesn't fix the problem (if it works), it just avoids it.  Something is broken, but if you can restore admin access, should be able to upgrade to 2.0.15, then see what happens.

[Bob Perry of Web Presence Consulting]

Ok, if you have access to the database that should mean you also have access to the cpanel menu and ftp ... I have run into this several times and you might be having an issue with permission settings of the directory where all the temporary session data files are stored, which is usually one level above your root public_html directory...

[brucegust]

Can anyone on this thread point me in the direction of the actual syntax that a user engages when they attempt to login? The URL isn't helpful and while I've been able to pop the hood on some of the administrative code, I've yet to see the actual SELECT that is grabbing login criteria from the database and computing it in a way that would generate the error.

Any ideas?

And as far as admin access, that's what this whole thread is attempting to accomplish. I do agree, though. Updating this thing would probably be very healthy.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Did you edit the securityDisable setting?  It should get you into admin.

[Bob Perry of Web Presence Consulting]

I would take a close look at the information displayed in repair_settings.php screen before you save... look at the recommended setting for your cookie name, and also make sure all the other recommended settings match the raw data as well... sometimes I just go through the whole list and click all the blue links without even reading, you'd be surprised how many times you catch misspellings and minor changes get caught...

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Nothing to do with this problem, admin security login is failing.

[Bob Perry of Web Presence Consulting]

Nothing to do with this problem, admin security login is failing.

Ok yea I see now, yea I think he's just not digging deep enough... Brucegust are you selecting the Settings table and then doing the search?

[a10]

I downloaded the entire sql file and did a search for "securityDisable" and nothing came back.

off topic, -assuming the sql was factually \ completely downloaded- how is it possible to not succeed with such a simple search job. Time to get a search tool that actually is a search tool? :O), may be very useful in the future.
Am using Notepad++ for search\edit, Agent Ransack for dedicated\difficult search.

Example, Agent Ransack, 2 seconds search time, & showing the line nr in the sql, see attach. Good luck.

[m4z]

I've seen people attempting to search the binary db files instead of plaintext dumps. (Which might work for some cases and search "strategies", but not for others.)

[Arantor]

I downloaded the entire sql file and did a search for "securityDisable" and nothing came back.

off topic, -assuming the sql was factually \ completely downloaded- how is it possible to not succeed with such a simple search job. Time to get a search tool that actually is a search tool? :O), may be very useful in the future.
Am using Notepad++ for search\edit, Agent Ransack for dedicated\difficult search.

Example, Agent Ransack, 2 seconds search time, & showing the line nr in the sql, see attach. Good luck.

For an option that wasn't set before, it wouldn't show up in the SQL because it wasn't set and therefore had no value to have been saved.