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I’m currently using 1.6.8 Build:  20091202. I had a failed 2.0.1 install, which left several 2.0 files mixed into my database and in my system files. EngineHosting has also recently migrated me to new servers. After that, I had another failed 2.0.1 install, which corrupted my databases and resulted in me rolling back to a backed up version.

But that’s not the issue I’m trying to resolve right now. Over the last couple weeks I could only be logged into either my site or the Discussion Forums or the Control Panel, and am no longer able to browse between the mix after logging into one.

Also, when posting multiple weblog entries in a row, when I click submit I am redirected to the log in screen for the Control Panel only to find that my entry was not submitted.

The second issue, I have been noticing some comments that are being submitted at a later time are posting BEFORE other comments submitted at an earlier time. I’ve had a couple members who’ve submitted corrections to their original comments only to have the correction appear before the actual comment—sometime minutes before hand.

In a similar issue, weblog entries are behaving in the same manner. When a specific time isn’t entered (either in the future or past) and the automatically generated ‘current time’ is used, sometimes it enters the entry at that time, sometimes it reverts to several minutes before hand.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. After this gets resolved I’ll be coming back to work on my 2.0 issues.

My Control Panel Session Type is currently set to ‘session id only’ and the User Session Type I changed today from ‘cookies and session id’ to ‘session id only.’ That change has not made a difference in the above listed issues—not that I can tell.

Rusty, you shouldn’t need to be using session id only on EngineHosting. But it sounds like there is quite a lot going on with your install. Did you have a good backup before you tried to upgrade to 2.01?

Originally, yes. After the first failed install though, I didn’t roll back to the backup. Weeks later, after being moved to the new EH servers I had another backup that had the mix of 1.6.8 and 2.0.1 files in it. During that failed install attempt, I rolled back to that backup (not wanting to loose weeks worth of weblog entries, comments and members).

you shouldn’t need to be using session id only on EngineHosting

For the Control Panel Session Type I have three options, ‘cookies,’ ‘session id’ and both, but the only one I can select and keep is ‘session id.’

Could the order of comments and entries be related to something wrong with the time settings?

I just added a couple new weblog entries and their order was messed up. Looking at the entry time, one was off by an hour ahead, another was entered at the correct current time and another that was off by about 15 minutes before the correct time (they showed up on my website as entry 3, 1, 2). This is without me changing the entry time. When I went to the edit tab in the control panel to correct their order, I clicked the ‘today’ link in the entry date, the time entered was not consistently being entered as the correct time.

Alright, the order of the entries and comments seems to be time related… either from the entry or comment being posted at the correct time, an hour fast or an hour slow. My previous comment about one entry being off by about 15 minutes was incorrect, it too was off by an hour.

Does anyone know what would cause the time settings to jump around like this, and what to do to fix it?

For the Control Panel Session Type I have three options, ‘cookies,’ ‘session id’ and both, but the only one I can select and keep is ‘session id.’

Make sure your config.php file is writable.

The config.php file is writeable.

Rusty T.,

What is in your config.php. Can you post it here please. Make sure to hide any sensitive information.

Over the last couple weeks I could only be logged into either my site or the Discussion Forums or the Control Panel, and am no longer able to browse between the mix after logging into one.

May there be a chance you are using www in some places and not in others. This would cause behaviour similar to this. If you log in using www in your domain you will not be logged into the same domain without the www.

May there be a chance you are using www in some places and not in others. This would cause behaviour similar to this. If you log in using www in your domain you will not be logged into the same domain without the www.

The links to each are either bookmarked or links on my site and haven’t changed. And other users of my site have reported the same issue.

$conf['admin_session_type'] = "s";

This is the reason you can’t change the admin session type. It’s because items in the config.php trump settings you make from inside of EE. You can either remove this setting, or change it to “c” for cookies only.

Does that help?

I’ll give it a shot.

That seems to have resolved the issue with being logged out when ever I switched from site to CP to DF.

Any thoughts on the time issue/order of comments and entries?

Have you verified your server localization settings, and also those under My Account?