New Bugs and Issues

[hmxsean]

So this afternoon Greg flipped the switch on the new vBulletin forums for the site. Immediately the performance of the site got way better. Yay! There probably are a few bugs here and there due to migrating everything over and getting it working. Feel free to post them here.

[xarexerax]

I found a huge bug ... the forums now load really fast so I don't have time to twiddle my thumbs between pages ... this boost in productivity is simply unacceptable! I barely even feel lazy when posting here at work now!

But seriously though, they look great, and the faster load time is awesome. Look forward to seeing everything made to transition smoothly!

One small thing though, I keep getting kicked out to the login page and then it won't load the "You have logged in" thing ... so ... I don't know, I still seem to be able to post, but it is confusing to me when it keeps asking me who I am when I've already told it. Just a small little thing really since it doesn't seem to be interefering.

[Huskie]

...One small thing though, I keep getting kicked out to the login page and then it won't load the "You have logged in" thing ... so ... I don't know, I still seem to be able to post, but it is confusing to me when it keeps asking me who I am when I've already told it. Just a small little thing really since it doesn't seem to be interefering.

It's a cookie setting in this software plus some links use www. in front of rockbandgame.com.
Those are two separate domains as far as cookies are concerned, but act as one on most web servers.

To fix this, the admin needs to adjust the cookie domain settings in the AdminCP.

So far, I've seen these issues:

• Not working again - Use of different domain names in some area. Some links have www and some don't. This causes users to be logged off when they should be logged in. You will get a lot of complaints for this one. It happens on many BB systems. Are you using a redirect on www? Even though I see www in links, they are not going to those. This might be what is causing the login issues. See http://www.rockbandgame.com/vbforum/...48&postcount=7
• After changing my profile settings for the timezone, it wants to go to an ip that starts with 172. It is not using the domain name.
• Fixed - Announcements not at top in forum list (Not a bug, just symantecs)
• Suggestion: Imported members have the "Instant Email Notification" turned on by default. This option might have been hidden in the other software so we could not change it and it was imported here. In time, your email server will have a lot of outgoing emails when the site gets busy. Perhaps turning this off and let the user decide?
• Conversion to vB left   in some posts. Here's one of them: http://www.rockbandgame.com/vbforum/...94&postcount=1 . This one has more markup language tags besides   : http://rockbandgame.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=41 Also, see next note.
• Viewing a single post makes it centered.
• Some original BBcode tags are not being translated in vB. New bbCode needs to be added to vB to support old posts. See this post for the issue: http://www.rockbandgame.com/vbforum/...8&postcount=12
• Topics/Boards not being marked as read due to below post: http://www.rockbandgame.com/vbforum/...38&postcount=4
• Private Messages: "Total" value is incorrect. Need a new PM to see if "Unread" is correct. Maybe not tied into the phpfox PM system? If not, maybe this section should not be shown?
• Signatures not showing in vB. The link to edit your sig in vB goes back to phpfox's profile page where the old sig is but that entry is not being shown here. Maybe purposely by your setting to not show sigs or a bug if sigs are allowed here.
• Post count incorrect - Posts from old forum not counting in total posts by member.
• Links in footer have issues
  • TERMS & CONDITIONS - New popup window produces an Javascript type Alert window but displays after clicking OK.
  • PRIVACY POLICY - New popup window produces an Javascript type Alert window but displays after clicking OK.
  • HELP GUIDE - Javascript error. Does not work.
  • CONTACT US - Bad URL. Does not work.
  • INVITE - Bad URL. Does not work.
  • ABOUT US - Bad URL. Does not work.
  • PRESS - Javascript error. Does not work.
• Fixed but see Update #3 @ http://www.rockbandgame.com/vbforum/...48&postcount=7
  - Unable to show as logged out in vB. See: http://www.rockbandgame.com/vbforum/...9&postcount=11

I'll post more when I come across them.

ETA:
It's IP 172.{{ removed}}. You can see this when you go into your UserCP".
Added "Instant Email Notification" default settings.
Added Centered single post views
Added Conversion missed non-breaking space code:  . Found other markup language tags.
BBCode LINK not converted.
Topics/Boards not marked as read after viewing them due to cookie subdomain issue and/or mixed use of www in domain name.
Added PM totals not correct.
Added signatures not showing in vB.
Adding post count not including posts from old forum.
Adding footer links have issues.
Adding Unable to show as logged out in vB.
Adding Original bbCode testing for failing bbCode in vB.

[Huskie]

More on the subdomain www of rockbandgame in links:

I use Firefox as my main browser. If I leave off the leading www for a site, it adds it for me.

If I go to rockbandgame.com, it puts me at www.rockbandgame.com. I can force it by removing the www. Now if I click any of the links from the horizontal menu (Main/Browse/Blogs/etc), it redirects me to www.rockbandgame.com on all the phpfox links and the new Forum link.

This is where a problem occurs.

If I view the main forum index, the links on the right for the last topic look like they go to www.rockbandgame.com but they go to rockbandgame.com for me. The topic does come up but because my cookie is for www.rockbandgame.com (which phpfox assigned when I logged in), vB does not see me logged in.

ADDING:
Another area where the www is dropped is when a topic has a new reply and displays
http://www.rockbandgame.com/vbforum/...s/firstnew.gif.
Example:
The link properties show http://www.rockbandgame.com/vbforum/...o=newpost&t=92 but clicking the image brings me to http://rockbandgame.com/vbforum/show...o=newpost&t=92 which again thinks I'm not logged in.

ADDING #2: I might have found another area where it is messing up. It look's like it might be the redirect URL. I just edited this post and saw the redirect put me at rockbandgame.com instead of www.rockbandgame.com. I didn't notice this before since I was using the quick edit feature, which worked okay before. This time, I used the "Go Advanced", which is the same as clicking the Reply button. After I posted the edit, that is when it sent me somewhere else.

I hope that explains it better.

[Huskie]

Hate bumping my own replies but editing my reply above to add more things found probably does not mark this topic as having a new reply.

[hmxsean]

Don't worry, I am monitoring this closely and have stickied the topic. We are going to try to fix a good deal of this for tomorrow.

[Huskie]

Don't worry, I am monitoring this closely and have stickied the topic. We are going to try to fix a good deal of this for tomorrow.

Thanks Sean. I just updated this reply with more info on the www subdomain and it being dropped somewhere in vB, leaving me logged out.

UPDATE:
It is definitely the Post Reply, not quick reply, which is dropping the www after posting. Based on what I have seen so far, it is probably the redirect link causing all these issues with dropping www for me. And with the cookies setting in vB storing separate ones for each domain, www and !www, this makes my browsing ... shall we say ... interesting.
I'm sure changing the cookie setting in AdminCP to the following should make the logouts disappear at least:

• Path to Save Cookies: / - No custom setting unless you want more than one vB on the domain.
• Cookie Domain: .rockbandgame.com - This will make it store both www and !www cookies in the same cookie. Log out issues gone. Do not do this if you want more than one vB in the same domain though.

UPDATE:
It seems to be fixed now Sean. The cookie domain and path act like they are set to above now. I remain logged in in either www.rockbandgame.com or rockbandgame.com. I viewed the cookie here via Firefox to confirm this setting.

UPDATE #2:
Tested again after clearing cookies from this domain. Still an issue with phpfox now.
phpfox seems to be using www.rockbandgame.com as it's cookie domain and two different paths for the cookie, / and /plugins/vbulletin/ but vBs is okay now.
What happens now is if the user uses rockbandgame.com (without the www) in phpfox main page ( http://rockbandgame.com/index.php?do=/public/ ) and logs in via the form at the top, phpfox sets cookies as mentioned. Even though vB is fixed, with it changing the URL within it (another issue) by removing or adding the leading www, phpfox will not see the user as logged in should they go back to any phpfox area with the www added to it.

Steps to reproduce:

• clear all cookies from this domain.
• go to http://rockbandgame.com/index.php?do=/public/
• log in via the form at the top. (you will see the URL change to www leading it)
• move around vB until the URL does not have the leading www (or remove it yourself but that defeats common user usage)
• Now with www removed, go back to any phpfox page (your account, etc). It does not see you as logged in

I do not have phpfox to check but maybe you can set the cookies settings there like you did vB?

UPDATE #3: - 4/26/07
This was fixed when the cookie domain was set to .rockbandgame.com but because phpfox and it's vB plugin are storing cookies at www.rockbandgame.com, this caused the system to not log out the user in vB when they logged out from the site.
Now it seems the cookie domain was changed back to www.rockbandgame.com or even left blank (tested logging in without the www prefix subdomain and checked cookies) What happens now is the original problem. When a member logs in to www.rockbandgame.com , any time they are in the forum at a URL that does not have www.rockbandgame.com, vB will not see them as logged in.

[TRY2KPUP]

Im so confused... Are there two logins now?

[Huskie]

Im so confused... Are there two logins now?

TRY2KPUP,
Just one. Using the login page from either the forum or the old way bridge them both together.
There is a current issue though with this. If you login via the old way (top link) to www.rockbandgame.com , there is a mismatch in the cookie paths and domain name that causes some pages in the new vB forums to think you are not logged in (when the www is removed from the URL).

Sean,
The IP 172.nn.nn.nn {{removed and replaced real #s with n}} is in internal number I still come across. I tested this by forcing a logout and then used the vB login screen by forcing it to come up by going directly to a page where I needed to be logged in (my example, newreply.php like this URL : http://www.rockbandgame.com/vbforum/...ewreply&p=1454 ) Then at the vB login, I entered my information and submitted. It confirmed that I successfully logged in but the redirect page was trying to send me to IP 172.nn.nn.nn {{removed and replaced real #s with n}}

Adding:
I checked the html output for that IP and found it as part of the cron "image" which triggers cron jobs, if needed.
I then checked my local copy of vB and the source is using the value stored in one of the sql records. What I also found interesting is the other areas that keep trying to use this 172 IP is also using this value.

This setting can be checked/changed in the AdminCP under ...

• vBulletin Options
  • vBulletin Options
    • Site Name / URL / Contact Details
      • Forum URL

Maybe the current value stored there is set to IP 172 .... ?

[Huskie]

I wonder how long it will be before Sean bans me here for posting this stuff?