Possible Cookie bug? - login (forever)

[mopey]

Hi, thought I would like to give a feedback on some weird behaviour and let you guys see whether it is a bug or not...

Effect:
1. Admin appears to be logged in when I have actually logged out already
2. When i open a new browser and visit my SMF forum, it says Hello Admin...

What i did:
1. Login as Admin - Forever
2. Close window without logging out
3. Open new browser and login as a normal user (er... yes, when i went in, it did not say "Hello Admin..."
4. Log out, then login as Admin
5. When i try to logout, get error: cannot verify url -> go back and try again
6. Finally logged out.
7. From then on, when i visit my site, once in a while, i am "already" logged in as admin, sometimes not. And when i was at a friend's place, and showed him the site, it says "Admin" is logged in. Which of course, is a lie, since I am miles from home and my computer is turned off, dead as a door stop.

OK, hope the above was interesting.   BTW, i am using v1.0.7 believing that this is the more stable version...

Hope that was useful.

[Harzem]

You may have problems about your cookie settings, or some url settings. You may run repair_settings.php file to correct some mistakes.

What is repair_settings.php?

[mopey]

OK, I solved the mystery... someone might want to post it into FAQ if it is a common problem. Here it goes and feel free to correct me if you all find anything wrong here:

1. Based on the symptoms of the problem listed below, i assumed it was a cookie issue. However, I discovered that it was actually a problem with the URL. In the link to my front page on my forum, it was http://mysite.com  however, my forum is on hxxp:www.mysite.com/forum [nonactive]

2. What i discovered was that if i went to hxxp:mysite.com/forum [nonactive] everything was fine...

3. My conclusion is: My web host does something between hxxp:mysite.com [nonactive] and the www redirection which messes up the SSI.php stuff. Just in case anyone else faces these issues with SSI.php, hope this will help.

[Harzem]

Yes, I knew about that, because I had a similar www problem before. Just use repair_settings.php, by accessing it through internet using www prefix. It will correct things both for www and no www.

[Kindred]

the cookies differentiate between www and no www... 

If, in your forum set up, you have specified your forum url as mysite.com, then www.mysite.com is a different access...

if you want both available, then turn on subdomain independent cookies... because that is essentially what you are using, different subdomains.