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Hey

Another Forum-related issue here.
If we’re currently only using cookies, users aren’t able to log-out of the forum. Using both sessions and cookies works just fine, but that of course uglifies the URL’s in the main site!

What to do, what to do…
Is there any way to use cookies in the main site and cookies AND sessions in the forum?

Updated
Just to clearify: If I remove all cookies and log in as a non-admin user, I can log in and log out once without problems. BUT, if I then log in a second time and try to log out again, the Logged-out dialogue is shown but I’m not actually logged-out.

I’ve tried removing the Cookie Domain as well as adding it again without any difference.
Also, the site’s running MSM, and I’ve have set a Cookie Domain for each site.

This seems to be a similar issue as described (but not resolved) here: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/122710/

André - is there a reason why you’re having to use sessions at all? Logging out shouldn’t be an issue. Are you using MSM? Are you standardizing on www or non-www in your URLs?

Well, since cookies don’t seem to work, while using sessions AND cookies does, I thought that might do the trick. But then the URL’s becomes ugly as hell :/

As I stated above, the site is using MSM and I’ve have set a Cookie Domain for each site (as well as tried removing them).

Hi Andre,

Are you using .htaccess to remove index.php from your URLs? If so, can you please temporarily remove/rename it and replace index.php as the site index file in the system preferences.

Cheers

Greg

Alas no, index.php has been left untouched on this installation since the very beginning.

pushloop,

Ok lets concentrate on getting your cookies working. So switch back to just Cookies only

Tell us a bit more about your MSM setup.
How many sites do you have?
Which is the primary one?
Which one do you have your forums setup on?

What version and build of EE, MSM and the discussion forum are you using?

The installation is running:

EE
Version: 1.6.9
Build: 20100430

MSM
Version: 1.1
Sites:
1. Digital Inn (Primary with Forum)
2. Digital Labs
3. Ett-till-Ett

Forum
Version: 2.0.0

My client was apparently sitting on a 2.1.2 update that hadn’t been installed, but installing that unfortunately didn’t solve the issue.
Any idea if upgrading to 2.2.0 would affect things at all?

Andre, I’d upgrade all three - forum, EE, and MSM.

I will certainly do so as soon as possible, but since my clients license has expired for the discussion forum module I would love to make sure I’ve tried everything else first…

We’ve switched to using sessions only for now, and that seems to work just fine.

Explain to them that while sessions work, we can’t guarantee other things might not work as expected when versions are out of sync. They may be willing to take that risk.