Trouble posting and/or staying logged in?

[Morrus]

I get so many queries about this that I thought I'd make a permanent announcement about it.

A lot of people are having trouble posting once logged in - they find that the board logs them out again when they try to post, asking for their username and password again.

99% of the time, the problem is caused because you're using the wrong address to visit the messageboards. Look at the address bar in your browser - if it has the word "cyberstreet" in it, you're using the wrong address, and the boards won't work correctly for you.

The correct address for these messageboards is: http://www.enworld.org/forums/

If you have been using the wrong address, you will need to do two things:

1) Clear out your cookies (in Internet Explorer you can do that by going to Tools > Internet Options > Delete Cookies).

2) Come back to the boards via the correct address.

Hope that helps!

 

[GuardianLurker]

If you have the correct address (you always follow the link from the main news page for instance) make sure:

• Your cookie-limiter (e.g. browser, personal firewall, ad-blocker, etc.) is set to allow all cookies, including third party.
• Your privacy-limiter is set to allow private headers.

If you use Zone Alarm Pro (good program) you will find the settings under Privacy.

Speaking from experience!

 

[Nifelhein]

Also, note that your old bookmarks bear the cyberstreet address too, you can edit them and make them reflect the actual address.

That hapenned to some people a while ago and I had already done the editing thing on my bookmarks by then. Hope it helps too.

 

[Tiefling]

It may be worth noting that this also occurs if you omit the "www" and use enworld.org or http://enworld.org. Or, at least, it did for me.

 

[KenM]

I had a problem with my computer today. I had to log back into all the fourms I goto. But when I tryed to do it with ENWorld, it logged me back in, but when i go to another page on the fourms, I was logged out again. I deleted my cookies again and reset everything, but its still doing it.

EDIT: Working now.

 

[Allanon]

Something new that I noticed first today is that I'm asked to reregister whenever I click on the User Control Panel Button. If I refresh or click the User CP again the problem doesn't repeat. It seems to be happening only when I'm quickly surfing through links without letting the pages fully load.

 

[KenM]

I still have to log in after awhile, I reset the adress, deleted my cookies.

 

[EricNoah]

is anyone here using enworld.org instead of www.enworld.org ? We're discovering that makes a difference. Tomorrow Thomas Heretic will try to do something about that...

 

[Nifelhein]

Also, remember to check out your cookie options and allow medium security in IE, higher than that block the cookie and logs you out everytime... problem I has recently.

 

[Wilphe]

Well that worked, of course I now have a secondary alter ego with 0 posts.
Still.