Various Errors - Posts not displaying, Seeing Other Users Mailboxes and more

[ClayC]

We're experiencing a few glitches in our installation, the most common complaints and experiences are:

1. Seeing someone else's user name in the upper menu bar, and being able to access that users personal Inbox.  Clicking "Home" and elsewhere will return the correct username to the upper bar.

2. Members make or modify posts then can't see them although they usually appear after a while.  No post approval settings are in place.

3. When navigating, the user may find themselves logged out unexpectedly.  The Login window doesn't fully open but when another forum link is clicked the user is logged back in.  This often happens (to me at least) when clicking "Unread Posts", but not consistently.

These problems seemed to start when I enabled SSL on the server after the forum had been installed and running under an http:// URL.

Hosting on GoDaddy
SMF version 2.1.4
PHP version 8.2.27

This is a fresh, clean installation on a new hosting space.  There are no modifications installed, just the "Out of the Box" SMF.  Everything seemed to be working properly until about a week after setting the forum up, I enabled SSL on the server and pointed the domain to the secure space.  All page loads show https:// now.  That was when we first noticed these problems.  Once these issues started manifesting themselves I started playing with various settings under Server Maintenance and Configuration including Forum SSL mode with no improvements noted.

It strikes me as being session related but I have no idea where to go from here.

Forum URL:  garagehangout .net

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Ask your host to disable varnish caching.

[Kindred]

Definitely a cache problem