Logged in state being lost for a number of users

[chaz7979]

A number of loyal users of my forum have been reporting issues with staying logged in while navigating around the forum. One minute they are logged in and the next they are out. They are even having problems posting while logged in, only to have their account lose its logged in state on submit.

I have seen similar issues myself with logging out and private messages not being marked as read even though they have been read.

Refreshing seems to solve the problem for myself and other users.

I have no idea what could be causing this but, I can tell you that no code changes have been made to website for over a year and it has been clear sailing since I installed the software. What could cause something like this when no changes have been made to the code?

I will be happy to provide any other information necessary. I am totally lost.

Thanks in advance.

[Lynne]

Are you users checking the Remember Me box? Do you have any htaccess file in use?

[chaz7979]

I assume they are, I know I am. That said, this issue was never reported over the course of 3 years but, it was reported by 3 members in the past week. That is a lot considering the activity of the forum as of late.

I do have an htaccess file in the root folder placed by wordpress. Have any conflicts with wordpress upgrades been reported? Wordpress is in the root of the website while VB is in root/forum/

Thank you so much for the help.

[Lynne]

I have no idea what is in a wordpress htaccess file. But, you should look for anything that says mod_expires or mod_headers and make sure they aren't causing caching issues on your site.

[chaz7979]

No expires or headers just, a mod_rewrite.

I would assume that if there was a conflict between VB and wordpress, someone would have reported it by now. There must be a ton of people using both on their websites.

[chaz7979]

Could it be a change with one of my webhosts settings?

If there is any other information I can provide you with, please let me know. I am seriously considering upgrading but, now I fear that my issue will just carry over into the new installation.

[Lynne]

Can you pinpoint when this started happening? I would write to your host and ask them if they have changed anything around that time.

[chaz7979]

I added a cache plugin to wordpress
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...ws-after-login