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Login not working - kmiklas - 2017-01-20

Hello All,

First post! Thank you for creating such a great forum Big Grin.

Login and account setup is not working on my board.

Perhaps part of the problem is the relationship between the host and the URL?
- Godaddy shared hosting is used to host the board. The direct URL is:
http://www.miklas.org/rsxNet/

- The domain name that I would like to use for the board is:
http://www.ritchiestockexchange.net/

Thank you!

Sincerely,
Keith :^)

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Detailed description of your problem, including steps to reproduce if necessary
- Browse to the forum, set up a user account, and try to log in. You will not be logged in.

URL to your forum/URL to specific problematic page
Hosted at: http://www.miklas.org/rsxNet/
Domain Name: http://www.ritchiestockexchange.net/

New installation or upgrade (from which version of MyBB)?
- New Installation

Test user account (if it requires additional permissions)
- That's part of the problem... I can't set up accounts.

Screenshot or error text, verbatim
- n/a

RE: Login not working - thunderclap - 2017-01-20

Take a look at this post. Is it the same sort of issue?

https://community.mybb.com/thread-207585.html

RE: Login not working - Matt - 2017-01-20

You need to change your cookie domain to .ritchiestockexchange.net and your cookie path to just /

If you can't login to the ACP, you'll need to make the change in ./inc/settings.php, then log in to the ACP and make the change again.

I presume you installed the site on http://www.miklas.org/rsxNet/ and then changed the Board URL to be http://www.ritchiestockexchange.net/ afterwards?

RE: Login not working - kmiklas - 2017-01-20

Thanks for your responses.

@Thunderclap: yup, that looks like it.

"I presume you installed the site on http://www.miklas.org/rsxNet/ and then changed the Board URL to be http://www.ritchiestockexchange.net/ afterwards?"

Something like that. I ran the installer from miklas.org, and the URL is mapped through a Godaddy dialog screen.

RE: Login not working - Matt - 2017-01-20

No, it should have content in it, are the file permissions on it set to 666?

Not sure what you mean by a Godaddy dialog screen, is just weird your Board URL is using one domain, and your cookie settings are using a different one is all. Not sure at what point it would have been changed.

RE: Login not working - kmiklas - 2017-01-20

Yup, that worked. I love you peeps already,, and I've only been here two days.

RE: Login not working - Matt - 2017-01-20

Heart

Make sure you save the settings again in the ACP (this is because you also need to update the database, otherwise the next time you save settings, the old cookie settings will come back if you haven't re0saved them).

RE: Login not working - kmiklas - 2017-01-21

(2017-01-20, 11:28 PM)Matt Wrote: Heart

Make sure you save the settings again in the ACP (this is because you also need to update the database, otherwise the next time you save settings, the old cookie settings will come back if you haven't re0saved them).
Where do I save them in ACP?

fyi the Godaddy control panel allows me to map domain names that I've purchased to a directory on my shared hosting account.

I installed the board directly from my hosting URL, and then mapped the Domain Name. Looks like myBB (understandably) mapped the forum to the back-end hosting URL.

RE: Login not working - Matt - 2017-01-21

ACP > Configuration > Site Details > there are some cookie settings on this form, put the same values back in as you added to settings.php, and save.