Login in issues/being logged out

[Amma]

Jess I have been having issues the past few days. I repeatedly get logged out. I have the box checked to stay logged in. I'll be going along fine then I clicik a link and forced to sign in again.

Example I was in the Sig post about to reply to you and it logged me out. I had to go log in again.

Any ideas why this is happening repeatedly for me? I never had this toruble until a few days ago.

[Jess]

hmmm, not sure about that I think it has something to do with cookies. Try clearing your cookies. If that doesn't work let me know and I'll look into it

[Amma]

how would I clear my cookies, well for this board. I cleared them all once and was logging into everything for a month after because I got logged out of every board, journal and what not I was logged into.

[Amma]

I cleared my cookies for this site. Since then I have been logged out 3 or 4 time.

Any ideas?

[Jess]

i will try to find out what to do about this ...

[Jess]

Ok, are you AOL based/do you use an AOL browser?

Either way, see if the problem is fixed now ...

[Amma]

As of right now I'm on AOL. I had major issues the past 2 days. I only got logged out once today but that was early this morning.

I was thinking I may need to swicth this board over to my IE wehn I visit.

It seems to be working better again. Thanks Jess.

[Jess]

ok, after i did something then some people including me couldn't login So I've done something else ... are you having the same problem again now?

Another possible problem is that you have the cookie security settings set to disallow cookies. You could try changing them to allow cookies completely or just from here. But you seem to have cookies so that might not be it.

With the AOL thing, this is what I get from the phpbb help site -

"My AOL based users keep getting logged out!
phpBB2 uses sessions to keep track of users as they browse the board. These sessions use a combination of a unique session id and the users IP to identify each user. We make use of the IP as an extra safe-guard to help prevent sessions being hijacked (by discovering the unique session id).

Unfortunately this only works when the users IP is constant as they browse the board. For most users this will be the case. However certain providers route their users via a cluster of proxys. In some cases, particularly AOL this results in different IPs being forwarded as the user moves between pages. We take account of this by not checking the entire IP but only the first "three quads". Again in most cases this will be fine. However again AOL uses IPs which can vary so much that checking only the first two quads results in a fairly static IP being available for session validation."

[Amma]

Thanks Jess. I was logged out when I treied to get on today but that's ok I am going to try surfing the board nwp on my IE. I don't mind.