Apache 2 / PHP 5 bugs

[Guillaume]

Not sure if this is a new bug but it started after the upgrade:

When I access the site I always start out on www.enworld.org (the main page with news and stuff), then i look if something is new in my subscribed threads using the My Account|My Subscribed Threads menu and lastly I browse through my favourite forums to see if there is something new.

Today my 'You last visited:' time was set at my login time as I went from the main page to my subscribed threads. That means that the board didn't show any new posts at all (since I was last here 1 minute ago). It also means that I have to manually scan the threads to find where the new posts start.

btw, I use Internet Explorer 6.0 on windows XP. All patched and service-pack'ed to the latest revision.

Hopefully this is can be fixed again?

Håkon Gaut

I have been getting the same problem. I'm using the latest version of Firefox, running on Win2000.

 

[Michael Morris]

Apache 2 doesn't read the cookies sent by Apache 1 -- When I upgraded I essentially dumped everyone's cookies as an unintended side effect. This should correct itself after awhile.

(Or at least I think this is what's going on. I remember having to log back in after the upgrade).

 

[Erekose13]

If it helps at all, this was not the case for me. I logged back in after a 2 week absence to find that the servers had been upgraded. Luckily for me all my subscriptions were all there well and good ready to be read where I had left off.

 

[Gulla]

Apache 2 doesn't read the cookies sent by Apache 1 -- When I upgraded I essentially dumped everyone's cookies as an unintended side effect. This should correct itself after awhile.

(Or at least I think this is what's going on. I remember having to log back in after the upgrade).

Works like a charm now.

But it seems there was some cookie confusion: I didn't have to log in again (and still don't need to) but had the problem described above the 3 first times I logged in. And then the problem went away

Anyway. I have no more problems now (at least not with ENWorld ). And thanks for all the terrific work you do around here.

Håkon Gaut

 

[Dalamar]

When I access the site I always start out on www.enworld.org (the main page with news and stuff), then i look if something is new in my subscribed threads using the My Account|My Subscribed Threads menu and lastly I browse through my favourite forums to see if there is something new.

Today my 'You last visited:' time was set at my login time as I went from the main page to my subscribed threads. That means that the board didn't show any new posts at all (since I was last here 1 minute ago). It also means that I have to manually scan the threads to find where the new posts start.

I'm gettin exactly the same behavior, and I've tried logging out and back in several times now, and even tried manually removing the cookies so new ones could take their place (you never know), but it still sets my "last visited" to the moment I go to 'My account'.

Running latest version of Firefox on WinXP SP1

 

[Michael Morris]

Last visited time is stored via cookie - if you erase the cookie the system assumes the current time is the last visited time.

 

[Dalamar]

I didn't mean it keeps getting reset all the time because I keep deleting the cookies. I meant it keeps reseting despite the fact that it should be the new cookies in there now. The last I deleted my cookies was yesterday, yet even though I came to the site for the fourth or fifth time today, it still did that to me when I moved from the main page to the My subscriptions page.

Not to mention that it can't be all in the cookies since it (at least used to, haven't tested yet) remembers my last visit correctly even when I log in on a different machine.

 

[Dalamar]

Hmm... I just attempted to enter the site via a page other than the main news page. The first page I entered showed my 'last visited' correctly, but when I entered another page, it changed it to the time I came on this time.

So apparently it changes my 'last visited' when I leave the first page I enter after coming back to the site.

 

[Michael Morris]

I'll ask about this on vb.org. Meanwhile this problem is one address in vb3.5 -- in that version last visited and threads read are tracked in the database, not by cookie (which is far more accurate), so the sooner I can get that upgrade done - the better.

 

[Dalamar]

...and when I came on this time (straight to my "my subsciptions"), it didn't change the time after I left the page. Maybe it needed a couple of days after getting the cookie in place...