MyBB Community Forums

I've read several threads on this and I've tried everything I can think of to get the login working.

My website url: http://myserver
(this is a separate pc running a webserver in my apartment)

My Forum URL: http://myserver/forums

Going by what I've seen on the forums:
Cookie Domain: myserver
Cookie path: /forums/

I have this webserver set up so that I can do my testing here and then install it on my actual site once I get my theme, templates, mods how I want them. However, I cannot login at all. I get to the screen where it says I had a successful login and it will redirect me, but when I get back to the forum index, I am not logged in.

I've tried going with alternate cookie domains and if I leave it blank, it will let me login, but then I cannot logout at all. It says I logged out successfully, but I am still logged in when I return to the index. I would really love to be in the middle of the road here .

At first I thought it might be due to the fact that I do not have a "traditional" url since it is a home based webserver, but I don't know enough about the inner workings of mybb to make that more than a guess.

I am running 1.2.1 on this test server... helping hand anyone?

- Blick

EDIT: Really quick update... I tried Crakter's plugin for autosetting the cookie info (activated it, turned it on in general options, deleted any cookie references for my webserver, reopened firefox), and the problem persists.

Try this one http://community.mybboard.net/showthread.php?tid=7242

I tried that one before as well, but went ahead and tried it again... the only difference to what I had been using was adding the support for subdomains, and I still get the same results.

So far I believe I have tried every combination I can think of:

Cookie Domain:
blank
.
.myserver
myserver

Cookie path:
/
/forums/
/forums

I have used each Cookie Path with each Cookie Domain with triple checks to make sure that I cleaned out all cookies as well as restarted my browser. I have tried it from other pcs on my network (had never been to the site from them), and I get the same results.

Your cookie settings should be:

Cookie Domain: .myserver.com
Cookie path: /forums/

You need to clear your cookies before you try again.

I don't access my server with http://myserver.com since it is on my local network. I use http://myserver and always have. So that would make what I need to use .myserver and /forums/ correct? I double checked my settings, cleared all cookies, and restarted the browser completely, and I still get the same issue - it says I logged in, but never truly do. Is there an issue with running a web server on my local network? I am running WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and I used this same machine to test a previous version of mybb before going to a live site and everything worked flawlessly.

Just a thought that came from noticing that http://myserver.com comes out as a link while http://myserver does not. Perhaps a similar system is setting up the cookies and has trouble with my server not having a .com/.net/etc at the end?

I've wamp server too, and i have installed MyBB on it, and I can log in and out correctly.

this my cookie setting.

• Cookie Domain = empty
  
• Cookie Path = /
  

thats the correct setting for the localhost working good with me. I hope that help full
Note : almost of js didn't work ok on the localhost

OH. If your running on localhost then your cookie domain needs to be empty. The Cookie path should be what I said above though.


Everything should work fine (including JS)

I'm sorry for not clearly explaining my network properly. It is not on localhost, but just on my local network. I have a Windows Server 2003 PC, and it's pc name is myserver. When connecting to the web server from any machine on my local network, I use http://myserver. It is just like any other web server as far as my pc is concerned. I did this so that I could simulate as best as possible the conditions of a web site. I hope this clears that up. Mybb is nowhere on the pc that I am logging in from; it is installed on a separate web server that is on my network.

Have you tried the cookie settings that pepotiger posted? Cleared cache and cookies?

Yeah I have.. those settings are what I was talking about in my first post when I could log in, never log out. It would keep me logged in even though it would acknowledge a correct logout.