vBulletin Cookie Sharing

GeForce · 27 Jun 2007 at 18:25

Hi all,

Right so I'm working on this site which uses a vBulletin forum. And the usernames and passwords used for the forum are also used for the usernames and passwords for the main site.

So

http://www.mysite.net
and

http://forums.mysite.net
use the same usernames and passwords from the same database.

Now here's the problem. When a user logs into the main site, it logs them out of the forums. And vice versa.

Any ideas?

Jon

psyr33n · 27 Jun 2007 at 19:19

It could be a naming conflict. That aside, to what domain are you setting your main site cookies?

GeForce · 27 Jun 2007 at 19:31

Just to the main site, ie:

mysite.net.

If it is a naming conflict, what's the best way to sort that out? Seperate cookies for each part, or the same cookie for both?

Jon

psyr33n · 27 Jun 2007 at 19:38

Realistically I doubt it's a naming conflict as vB uses a naming convention that's unlikely to be reproduced.

For a quick test try print_r($_COOKIE) using PHP; also temporarily set your site cookies to www.site.com and see if that makes a difference.