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_Oli, I’ve have a MSM install I’m going to test on, but I won’t be able to get to it until later today, or worse case in the morning.

This way, I’ll have a controlled way of testing. If I see the same behavior on mine, I’ll have the dev team take a look.

Thank you ever so much for taking time to look into this.

_Oli, some of us can reproduce this on your site and others can’t. Can you let us know what browser you’re running when you’re testing this?

Hi Lisa,

I have tested on:

Ie6,7,8 firefox 3, safari 3 & 4 on win xp(on pc)
Ie6,7,8 firefox 3, safari 4 on win xp (on mac through parallels)

firefox 3, safari 3 & 4 on mac (leopard)

I have tested using different type of internet connections too (3G, Edge network, gprs, adsl, cable). I thought that the problem came from my work connection as we have several lines bonded into one hence the “connection” test. No difference.

I have tried changing the settings on the server’s firewall, as both sites are on the same server I thought this would be pointless but still tried. No luck…

Could this be something to do with php? I have a plesk server, each site is in a separate folder.. paths look like this

/var/www/vhosts/site_a/httpdocs/
/var/www/vhosts/site_b/httpdocs/

Also, I have safe mode off for both and open_basedir set to none.

Phew… as you can see, I have tested 😊

Also the weird bit is that when the jump happens (so when the url goes from site_a to site_b) the “user message” page you see when the url is www.site_b.com/index.php (green back, pink writing) actually belongs to site_a!

site_a has styled User Message Template where site_b is still on the default white/grey template…

very weird :S

My test with this was on Safari 3.  It’s really hard to troubleshoot something we don’t see; give us some time and we’ll try to see if we can spot anything.  Sorry this isn’t an instant fix one.

No need to say sorry, I’m very grateful to get help 😊

Oli, does this happen in both directions? site_a to site_b and site_b to site_a?

I just tested this in Safari 4 and didn’t see any flashing.  I’m curious though - you’re using the forum login form.  Can you try setting up a login form in a normal template and see if you still see the flashing?

both ways yes.

If you remove the “forums” from the url you will see the normal login form.

I have just pm’d you a link to a bare template ( just a form ) still same results…

Ok, the only thing I see that is “flashing” is the status message, but not the content in the page.

However, Sue and I are chatting about this, and I’m wondering if I misunderstood.  When you said flashing, I thought you meant that in the content area you see a flash of each site before you finish the login load.

Is that the case, or is the problem that you see the wrong User Message template: ie, the one from the Site you are not logging in from?

Perhaps a screencast of what you are seeing would be a good idea, to make sure we’re all on the same page. =)

Sue sent me the video….

... or do you just mean the URL changing as it gets you logged in?

yes.

I am just sending you a new video that gives you more details.

Just pm’ing you a link in a second.

Ok, that helped a ton.  For developing a site, you can always leave it out of the config.php array of which sites to log you into; so you can still develop that.

That said, I’m not sure if the URL should change like that; it’s not something that has ever come up before and I never noticed myself.  I’ll check in with that now that we know exactly what is happening.

Part of the confusion, fyi, is that I thought you meant the content area was flashing through each site, which would be much more disconcerting. 😉  Sorry about that, now that we have this down pat though, let me find out if it’s expected or not.

You’re a star!

I’m glad the french accent didn’t throw you too much 😉

Not in the least; but if you’d spoken French it would have thrown me a lot. 😉