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[TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 10:44 am
by toneddu2000
Hi folks, I'm noticing that session time in this forum it's practically inexistent (probably 30 minutes or less). Is it possible to lenghten it a little? No, not a little, sorry, I mean a lot! At least one day, for crying out loud! :biggrin:

*LITTLEOFFTOPICNOTSOOFFTOPIC* There's still some active adiministrator that manages this site? Because, since we migrated from inside3d we lost tons of users and forum activity is getting lower and lower..plus home page is never updated, so CSQC sticky section (and during 2016/2017 there have been TONS of new things to publish in the CSQC universe).. where are the administrators?

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 3:34 pm
by mh
I pretty much stopped using the site because of it's inability to keep me logged in. Yes, it would be great if this was fixed; it would have been even greater if it hadn't happened in the first place.

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 3:49 pm
by mankrip
mh wrote:I pretty much stopped using the site because of it's inability to keep me logged in. Yes, it would be great if this was fixed; it would have been even greater if it hadn't happened in the first place.
Same.

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 5:56 pm
by frag.machine
30-minute sessions seems a default timeout value, and actually is a good compromise to websites under normal workload; however in our case where the number of active users is really low I think extending it to say 24 hours wouldn't make any difference in resource usage. OTOH it can make the life of someone trying to hijack or impersonate a legitimate user easier - specially because we still don't have HTTPS access - so there is a security issue bumping it to much higher values.

EDIT: small typo

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:49 pm
by Baker
toneddu2000 wrote:There's still some active adiministrator that manages this site? Because, since we migrated from inside3d we lost tons of users and forum activity is getting lower and lower..plus home page is never updated, so CSQC sticky section (and during 2016/2017 there have been TONS of new things to publish in the CSQC universe).. where are the administrators?
You ought to contact them and volunteer to be moderator so you could stickey the topics yourself.

Quake is in a decline stage:
1) The lights slowly go out and things get unmaintained or less maintained.
2) Most newbs are casuals or Steam users, not technical types or detail oriented.

It's not a good thing or a bad thing, just the way things go. This happened in spades once upon a time when Quakesrc and Quakedev went dark and other sites with activity faded and went away.

Quality volunteers and people with time and willing to help are the answer.

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 9:13 pm
by Dr. Shadowborg
I took a look in the ACP, but it looks like persistent logins IS turned on, with "persistent login key expiration length (in days)" being set to 0. (which *should* always cause autologin) Which probably means that PHPBB is broken or something.

I have no idea what else can be done as I don't want to mess around too much and accidentally break things as I don't know enough about how things are put together. scar3crow or Tomaz were responsible for setting up the new insideqc forum softwares IIRC. (Not sure, I didn't have anything to do with the restoration after inside3d went down before.)

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 1:54 pm
by revelator
Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@forums.insideqc.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

uh oh :shock:

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 9:31 pm
by scar3crow
I was not involved in setting up the new forums in any substantial way.

I set the login length to 90 days, since obviously it wasn't parsing the 0 days as Never, we'll see how it goes from here.

I am around, just not typically on forums, I am very available on Twitter and Discord, as well as running the Quake Community group on Facebook, which are more accessible from the perspective of having 2 minutes here and there.

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 6:24 pm
by Spirit
Did not change a thing for me. I still have to log in again all the time.

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 6:28 pm
by toneddu2000
Saaaaame for me

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:38 pm
by revelator
Did you restart the server after changing those values ?, im not sure php will react to changes unless it is.

Many many years since i last made a site myself so im not even sure i could do it today, but if you have a copy of the site software let me have a look at it, i got some old work related friends i can pull on who do this for a living, maybe they can get this fixed.

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:50 pm
by revelator
find the phpbb_sessions_keys table and delete all entries, then reload the server. Warning all logged in persons will be booted from the site so announce it first.
Also check if the session cookie points to the right site, if it does not then it will newer work untill fixed.

If the site uses phphbb 3.02 upgrade it after the above, the 3.02 version is bugged as hell.

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:12 am
by toneddu2000
revelator wrote:Warning all logged in persons will be booted from the site so announce it first.
Don't worry about that. With the exception of you, me, frag.machine, Spike and some random guy, no one is connected to this forum anymore...sigh..

Re: [TO ADMINS]Forum logout session time

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 2:27 am
by revelator
Hopefully after the bugs have been taken care of ... :neutral: