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MJZ · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 2:21 pm Post subject: Board problems.

Ignore teh MJZ at the top of the post, this is Mandrake.

well after searching through the PHP code, I can't really figure out exactly how to fix all the problems we've gotten since I've moved the board over.

So I have several avenues open to me, and was wondering what everyone thought:
1. Delete the current board (save for the theme that bjorn did, which rocks), reinstall it. This should get rid of the problems, but also all of our old messages. Quick fix.
2. Wait until I finish with the new site and just put up with the problems so far.
Oh, and Bjorn, I'm making very litle changes to the code we have now working for the site, just moving a few things around, (very little) and creating an integrated message board.

Modanung · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 8:18 pm Post subject:

The loggin in is no biggy for my, because I just doesn't remember me. It does keep me logged in while I'm browsing the forums and posting.
So I'll go for option 2.

Why didn't set up a poll, perfect for a situation like this.

God_Cells · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 8:53 pm Post subject:

:) I can log on the board but, I can't log on the main site... it send a debug that said 'Not logged'... I wanted to update my project... :/.
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Bjorn · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 12:43 pm Post subject:

Hmm, that's weird. I didn't receive any problem report about that from anyone... and it seems to work fine in general. Can you be more specific about the logging in on the main site problem?

About the board, it doesn't log me out if I don't use the 'go to first new post' links. Maybe that'll work for the others too. It might be a hint to where that bug is too. But about these problems, I think we can live with it until the new board. We should try to hurry that a little then though.

Uhm, Mandrake. Could you email me more specifically about your plans etc? You should already know that I have already done an integrated messageboard (forum-like) for another site and that it might not be such a big problem to integrate that into RPGDX. It's just an option and it could safe a lot of work plus it features things like editing/deleting posts, displaying which posts are still unread (more specific than which are new since last visit) and limited BBCode support (which could be extended to the same as the phpBB forum easily I think).

MJZ · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 1:37 pm Post subject:

that would work wonderfull (this is MANDRAKE, btw, and it's also a significant bug that i can't log in....and it auto-logs me as MJZ...sigh), just using that messgae board. Does it have PM's? (if not, i can script those). sorry it is taking me so long, but i needed a vacation from coding last month. I almost had a nervous break down from taking on too many things at once.

Anyway, yeah, bjorn, I'll email you.

God_Cells · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 6:08 pm Post subject:

To be more specific, I use the same login and the same password as the forum. If I use a pseudo-random generated (a invalid one) password it show

"No valid username-password combination. ", this is normal no?

But if I use the right password and the right login, nothing happen, I return on the main page and the site say under the title:

"Not logged in. [login] [register]".

To have a try, take my login and password... you'll see!

My browser in configured to receive cookies et my Javascript is enabled ( javascript should be useless for CGI's, but i gve the information in the case of...). Anyway, if I can log on the forum, that show the problem dont come from me...

Anyway, I wish you good debugging :D.

Bjorn · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 12:47 am Post subject:

God Cells, note that we don't have access to our members passwords because they are MD5 encoded, could you email me your login info so that I can try if I experience the same problem? I do not have a clue what could cause this problem yet. Does it make any difference if you use the auto-login feature or not? And thanks for the advise, you are right of course. :-)

I'll be looking into integrating that board the following week or two and see if any changes/additions need to be made before activating it. And Mandrake, there is no personnal messaging yet so that remains to be implemented.

God_Cells · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 1:59 am Post subject:

:) You don't have access to my acount!! Ahaha!... your system is well secured, very good :) I'll send those infos, I dont care 'cause I use a different pass for evry place I have to logon :p.

I no longer use automated system for now 3 years^_^, when i used them I forgot my passwords!!

A new board, good ^_^, I would like that you keep our posting stats... I sugest simplicity and speed, I have the feeling that a lot of features provided by phpBB are fairly unused... Dont worry, I dont refer to the first RPGDX board ^_^.

ah! no problem :D my advises are free of charge!

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Bjorn · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 10:09 pm Post subject:

Well, using your account settings I'm having login problems too which is good news I think. I still don't have a clue but now I can at least try some stuff out to try to find out where the script goes wrong.

Bjorn · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 11:38 pm Post subject:

Ok, it's not your account it's the autologin feature that actually makes it work for all others... Seems like some server setting is causing session data to get lost between page requests. For users that use the autologin feature this isn't a problem because they'll get automatically logged in on every page they request. The login without autologin is working on my home server but I don't know which server setting could cause this problem.

The board is working mostly though, but that would be because it uses its own session management with MySQL. But I think the cases in which this board is failing are related to the same kind of server setting.

a non logged in Zoggles · Guest

Well I wasnt having a problem as I normally have it on auto-login, but since I clicked the 'profile' link I do have.

Profile asked me for my login when I was already logged in - even showed me a being one of the current members in the forum at the bottom of the screen.

The profile password section wouldnt recognise my username and just kept re-asking.

When I then tried to login again.. it just did nothing and returned to the forum index - still not logged in. Even leaving the site and re-entering (having previously normally thats fine as I have auto login) doesnt work.. so yeah.. somethings amiss with the session state and/or login, but there's definately something funky going on with the profile password check section.

Hope any of this helps.

-Z-

Bjorn · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 12:25 pm Post subject:

The problem is that we didn't write this board software, so it's hard to tell what part of the code is going wrong. Also, the same board worked fine in the previous server so it probably isn't the board. In any case, we'll be switching over to our own board but this will take some time.

Zoggles · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 8:22 pm Post subject:

Ok.. deleting any indie-rpg cookies and then logging in (ticking the auto-login) has resolved the problem for me :)

Somewhere along the way, something is corrupting the cookie. I have a feeling its data across message boards on the same server which is doing it.

-Z-

Barok · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 9:46 pm Post subject:

Is Zozzles a forum moderator or Administrator? Because I don't remember his name on the list of forum moderators... I guess i should try to look at the members list first.

By the way, answer two questions for me?

1. how do you save screenshots from your games? i tried ctrl + x and ctrl + c. what do i do?

2. I tried to get my aviator to work and it won't work. the help is no help. help! (i should extend my vocabulary!)
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Barok · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 9:55 pm Post subject:

what i meant above is his rank. he only has 6 posts, and it say's "pixel wizard: all shall bow before his might. Is this a custom job?
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