By maxovride@drupal.org on

when i goto my drupal site with firefox it works great and im able to log in, but when i goto it with IE and try to login it just goes right back to the login page with no errors and i try to login again and it does the same thing. when i go into firefox and then check the log it says that i logged it when i was internet explorer. im not sure what to do. and it is driveing me nuts. if you would like to try it your self. goto http://lehicommunitywifi.net with the login and password of test1234 test123.

i have tried this from mulitple machine in multiple locations with the same results

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smallfluffykat commented

Clear your cache in IE. I've encountered this problem with other sites. I think I remember that clearing the cache fixed it. Managed to get in with my IE :-)

EDIT: How the h3ll do I log out?!?

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sepeck commented

generally the log out link in the menu

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smallfluffykat commented

Yeah normally, but there isn't one ;-) At least for me.

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maxovride@drupal.org commented

ok i tried to clear out my cache files, and i tried it on both my laptops, and two of my computers. i also had a friend in seattle try it and a guy in the next town try it. all with the same reasults. everytime you try to login it will just take you back to the login screen and you have no access to any of the things that you need to be logged in for, but if you look at the currently online block you will see that there is an additional guest online, and if you try it again and it add another guest online. but the logs will say that you did login each time. its weird, also if i click on any of the tabs or navigations the guest count also goes up

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smallfluffykat commented

It's not something to do with you needing cookies enabled for it to remember that you are logged in? I can log in in IE to your site - according to your page, test1234 is currently an online user with 7 guests. I tried to create a piece of test content to prove it easily but I guesss you've removed the permissions for that. Is it your internet explorer cache you've cleared not your website cache? Maybe you can see in your logs that I've sucessfully managed to open a session using your test ID and log in.

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smallfluffykat commented

OK I've played about a bit more and there's something more wrong than I thought. I logged in in FF and I see that it is completely different to when I tried logging in under IE. I don't know how to fix this but here's a summary as I see it for anyone else that might be able to help.

In IE you can log in, your username appears under the online user list. The nav/drupal block does not reflect that you're logged in properly - hence the lack of a logout button. You also cannot create content which suggests that even though you are listed as being online, Drupal doesn't consider you to be logged in. In addition, the language module does not get correctly initialised. IE - site is totally in English, FF - site is a mix of English and another language I'm not familiar enough with to classify.

I'm stuck - anyone else able to help?

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maxovride@drupal.org commented

this is exactly what im finding once you do the login, it keeps the login and password block there and the navagation block doesnt change like it should and you should be seeing the webpage in both english and arabic (i was playing with the translations modules) but you done. if you login with firefox then you will see the difference.

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Hannah commented

I'm finding that I'm unable to login to my site using IE. I usually use FF and have had no problems - tonight I've been trying it out with IE and find that when I enter my username and password and click 'Log in' I just get the Login form again.

I've tried clearing IE history and temporary internet files but it hasn't fixed the problem.

Do you have any other suggestions of things for me to try?

Thanks,

Hannah

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smallfluffykat commented

OK - I think I've managed to replicate this problem. I think it's to do with cookies after all. I've just disabled IE from saving cookies and now my site is behaving the same way. I try and log in, I get back the login block and the number of guests increases while my username appears under the login list.

If I re-allow IE to save cookies then it works fine. Go to TOOLS > INTERNET OPTIONS > PRIVACY

My slider is set to default medium and it works with that. I'm sure if you play with the setting you can find a privacy setting that you're happy with and will still let you in the site.

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Froggy commented

... and I still can't get it to work right in IE, any other suggestions. My IE users can't use the page at this point and it's frustrating.

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Froggy commented

....that some of my users have to have their privacy setting on Low to be able to use the site, the way it is intended to be used.

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aJssi commented

I have the same problem here at the office. We have installed it and are attempting to configure it for our Intranet, but I can only actively log-in via Firefox

Anyone have anything else on this?

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aaronstpierre commented

This fixed the problem for me. Setting the Privacy to Low. I couldn't login when the setting was at medium.

Aaron

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saerdna commented

this must be a sign from m$ to tell us we should not use ie anymore!

personally i use opera and more people should do! its great

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alexis commented

Hello, any update on this problem? It's happening to me in different Drupal sites (including www.drupal.org) when using Internet Explorer 5 on Win XP SP2, it happens using different themes.

But I'm not sure if it's just my IE 5 version, I'm running the version from http://www.skyzyx.com/archives/000094.php , this one allows you having it running together with other versions of IE.

Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks!

Alexis Bellido - Ventanazul web solutions

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dumbo12 commented

Had the same problem but found the solution in article:
http://drupal.org/node/30908
Hope all it help you.

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cmsproducer commented

A patch has been posted:
Beginning entry #46 of http://drupal.org/node/60584 and after if there are any subsequent updates to the patch.
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iDonny - WCMS Design, Devt., Marketing & CRM

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tossulino commented

We had this problem this week and we solved replacing de underline character in the sites subdomains.

Bye!

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robbie0119 commented

The solution to this problem that worked for me was to remove the _ character from my subdomain name. Maybe this information should be in the installation manual under multi-site installation that the domain name must not have the underscore character in the domain name. I tried using safari to login as well and could not login. But no problems logging in using firefox or opera. Just a suggestion.

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solfinker commented

The problem remains the same. I needed to go into low level security to enter even to this forum

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firelinks commented

Hi mate,

did you manage to get a fix for this?

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firelinks commented

Hi I have this problem with IE9. The site is set up with a different name with webfusion. I have created a domain in web fusion so when I forward the actual domain name (held in netnames) the server identifies that it should be handling this domain.
The forward works perfectly - however when I log in using IE nothing happens, when I log in using FF or Chrome the log in works fine.

If I set the cookies to low level in IE login works fine. I can tell everyone to do this.

Has anyone got a fix for IE or knows of a fix?

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