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[KyanVrezpor]

I've now transferred my forums to my totalchoicehosting account.

 

On my old forums, the URLs didn't have the session suffixes, and these were automatically included.

 

Some of the links on my forums now do not work, because on totalchoice hosting it seems to require that the session variables are attached and visible, and have to be manually attached to each link that I add.

 

Is there any way to change this back to the old settings?

[TweezerMan]

If you knew what the old settings were, you could probably add settings to your .htaccess file to make the TCH server behave the same way as your old server did.

 

I assume your talking about IPB here - perhaps someone who know more about IPB than I do knows what the appropriate settings should be.

[KyanVrezpor]

No, my old server was run completely by someone else, I had very limited access.

 

Yes, it is IPB 1.3.1 -> the setting must be changed on the totalchoicehosting forums as well, as there is no session variable (or perhaps it's IPB 2).

[TweezerMan]

I don't know if this will help, but I found the following in a topic on another forum:

Hi, my IPB forum has things like s=f0f7a52b6913364de09aded2c9332dbe in the url.... it doesn't SEEM to be required.... or am I missing something?

Are you using version 1.2 or higher, if so, that means your cookies settings are wrong. If you're using 1.1.2 or lower, then it means each member must go to their usercp and select to hide the session.

in your cookie settings I find this works the best

 

Domain: .******

(notice the . before ******, that makes it a global cookie)

 

Prefix: anything you want

 

Path: leave blank.

[TCH-Thomas]

Not sure if it´s searchengine friendly urls you mean but I found this after digging a little.

[KyanVrezpor]

TCH-David -> I had a look at that topic, and I tried changing my cookie domain to .blue-flame.net (my domain name), and leaving everything else blank, and it didn't make a difference.

 

What I'm looking for is a setting that means that the session variables don't have to be included in the URL for every link, as it means that links posted no longer work!

 

The forums here also don't automatically have me logged in, despite me selecting that setting.

[TweezerMan]

Your browser has to accept cookies in order for session IDs to not appear in the forum URLs. Your browser also has to accept cookies in order to keep you logged into the forums. It sounds to me like your browser may be blocking cookies from both your forum installation and the TCH forums.

[KyanVrezpor]

My browser definetely accepts cookies.

 

On these forums (the totalchoicehosting support forums), it does not show the session variable suffix (s=2349u3o4hfaseklhsdfalkh or whatever).

 

So it must be something different in the configuration of mine!

[KyanVrezpor]

Can anyone help me with this problem?

[TCH-Thomas]

I am sorry that no one have found an answer for you, but there is no need to bump a thread.

If no one have responded, there is probably no one that have the answer.

[TweezerMan]

Try adding the following settings to your .htaccess file:

>php_flag session.use_only_cookies on
php_flag session.use_trans_sid off

[KyanVrezpor]

It seems to have made no difference whatsoever, which is a bit odd.