I have installed bbpress on a Mac OS X 10.4 server, and all seems well with the exception of logging in and out using the Firefox browser. When i enter my login information and press login, the page looks as i it refreshes but does nothing. If i hit register, it says i am already logged in and from that page i can get to the main page of the forums and i am logged in.

When i click log out, it also does not seem to change (still shows my user instead of login box).

At first i thought this was only the browser, however after installing the same release of bbpress on a RHEL5 x64 Linux machine, i did not have this issue, even using the same browser/computer, and other combinations etc to try to get it to happen again.

Anyone seen a problem like this?

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

That used to happen here depending on which login box you used. I think it still does. You get a message in Firefox along the lines of “This page is redirecting in a way that will never resolve”.

Discussion long ago about this very problem:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/redirect-error-on-login-at-bbpressorg

https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/556

I think since then, I’ve learned second hand that this does not work because referers are blocked by the browser or personal firewall. If referers were enabled, I don’t think it would happen. Maybe that’s why IE acts differently than FF. See this recent discussion:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-a-trick-to-redirect-user-back-to-topic-after-login

[@strthomp Member 16 years, 11 months ago]

The odd thing is, the firefox browser i am using that gives me this issue only does it when i am viewing the forum on the Mac OS X server…

The same browser works fine, logging in and out, when i am viewing the forum on the RHEL5 server….

[@strthomp Member 16 years, 10 months ago]

<~ Is an idiot

The redirect fix worked…..

Why it only gave issues on the mac side is still a mystery to me… but the login works as needed so who cares.

Same issue happens with log out… happen to know which template page that would be? I am assuming i could probably use the same code snippet on that template page??

Thanks for your help chrishajer!

[@strthomp Member 16 years, 10 months ago]

Hrm maybe it is the one labeled logged-in.php… DOH

Not being a form, this doesn’t seem to work for logging out.

Oh well, i can live with that.