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We are having a login issue which appears to be different from most others.  Here are the details.

My url: http://www.hobbysquawk.com

Issue: users are unable to login from the homepage.  If you click the Login button (next to the gold key) the popup appears but when you enter your username and password it just dumps you back to the homepage.  In fact, you can enter any text in the login box and it still just dumps you back to the homepage - it doesn't say wrong username, password, etc.

Workaround: users must go to any thread and click reply.  Once they click reply they are prompted to login at which time the login functionality works.  

What we have tried:
- all directories and files are set to proper permissions
- cookies are setup correctly in settings.php and ACP
- settings.php is set to 666 (also tried 777)
- removed settings.php from the server so that a fresh copy would be created.  One point here, settings.php never regenerated, so we simply copied over the backup file.  Not sure this is relevant, but I wanted to mention.
- cleared the cookies from our test browsers (chrome and IE 10)

Any help is greatly appreciated and please let me know if you need any further information.

Mark
this reply might help
Quote:missing www. in ACP -> Configuration -> Site Details -> Board URL was causing it
due to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20035...d-resource
Current Board URL = http://www.hobbysquawk.com

New Board URL = http://hobbysquawk.com and now everything works.
Strange that removing the www. fixed the issues?
i think this has something to do with the preferred domains setup on my webhost or some other DNS setting.
(2015-01-08, 04:13 AM)mgoetze Wrote: [ -> ]i think this has something to do with the preferred domains setup on my webhost or some other DNS setting.

Quote:due to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20035...d-resource
Everything works now. I went into my webhost and changed the preferred domain to www.hobbysquawk.com and then I updatd the Board URL in ACP to match. everything works now. Thank you!!