Forum Login system

[samaursa]

This is not a problem related to Ogre itself but I didn't know where to post it. The forum system is a little bit broken when it comes to login. I have to login every time I click on a 'to see this post' link in my email. The forum doesn't remember my credentials either (yes I have cookies enabled) and if I run across a post on the same day I logged in (with the remember me checkbox enabled), there is a good chance it will ask for me to login again. Then if I do login it will take me back to the index!? I have to search for the post again now. If I go back in history (after logging in) to the post, I am logged back out (this is the only forum I have seen that this happens on, in every other forum if I go back to a post after logging in, it now shows me as logged in). The Ogre Addon forums has the same problem. Browse to a post, hit reply, login, it will take you back to index. This is especially problematic when links are emailed to me to notify me about a new reply.

If there is a setting in profile that I need to change, please let me know. If not, any chance this can be fixed?

[betajaen]

It could be your session cookies, try deleting ALL of the cookies for ogre3d.org and login again. Then see what happens.

[spacegaier]

I remember once having had a similar problem when I used to surf in the forums with ogre3d.org, but the mails direct to www.ogre3d.org. So I presumably had a cookie for the first URL, but not for the second (although I thought that they should be the same).

This however occured with the old forum software. No clue whether it still exists and I might also have been due to some other reasons...

[samaursa]

Thanks for the replies guys, unfortunately deleting cookies did not fix the problem. I have tried this on several browsers as well as different devices (ipad, laptop) and the same problem exists. This is how I reproduce it on my devices including PCs:

1. Make sure you are logged out of the forum system.
2. Close all windows in the browser related to Ogre forums. These two steps will replicate opening a browser for the first time after a restart.
3. Browse to a topic, then reply to it.
4. Login with your credentials, check 'remember me', click login
5. The only option displayed now will be to return to the index page

This also happens if I get an email notification and I click on the link to reply. On a computer this is not too much of a hassle, but on devices such as iPad/iTouch it is a huge problem because now I have to find the person who I wanted to reply to (or search for my own post) and that is a pain especially since the browsers don't have 'find'.

[madmarx]

Just to mention I have exactly the same problem (for 1 or 2 years).

[jacmoe]

Browse to a post, hit reply, login, it will take you back to index. This is especially problematic when links are emailed to me to notify me about a new reply.

This is most probably a bug in the forum software.
Happens other places as well.
The redirect was broken due to the latest upgrade.
Very annoying..
Has nothing to do with your setup.

[Klaim]

Should be related to one's account state? I had this problem for maybe a month last year if I remember well (I think we already have a thread about it).