Language and session gets lost when reloading page

[Schrauber]

Hi there,

First I'd like to congratulate to the latest update 1.6. It was very simple to upgrade from 1.5 and has some very nice new features (we like the RSS for Open Questions).

I'm not sure if my question relates to a bug or misconfiguration. So I hope someone already had this one and can provide a quick solution.

Here in our company we have several PC on a LAN, all accessing the internet through the same proxy. All have the same anti virus software and none of them has a desktop firewall.

Only one of these PCs seems to be unable to keep its phpMyFAQ session. Changing the language from english (default) to german seems to succeed first. However, when reloading the Site (either by clicking a link or pressing F5) the language setting is reverted to default. Also the 'users online' count rises by one. That's why I believe the session is lost and a new session is opened.

The issue is browser independent (same for Opera and IE), but depends on the PC. The OS is Windows 2000. Any suggestions how to fix or pinpoint the problem?

Schrauber

PS: Issue appeared in both 1.5 and 1.6

[Thorsten]

Hi,

is the Cookie correctly set?

bye
Thorsten

[Schrauber]

No, the PC doesn't seem to accept cookies. At least I didn't find a cookie of my site anywhere on it. Absolutely seems to be a specific misconfiguration of the PC. I wonder why it happens in both Opera and IE.

Shouldn't phpMyFAQ fall back to passing the SID by URL then?

Schrauber

[Thorsten]

Hi,

yes, we have a fallback and I tested this some minutes ago and it worked here...

bye
Thorsten

[Schrauber]

SID doesn't seem to be included in links (at least in main menu) when mod_rewrite is turned on.

Turning off mod_rewrite solves the issue.

Schrauber

[Thorsten]

Hi,

that's bad and that's a stupid bug by me.

I'll try to solve this.

bye
Thorsten