Separate login for Photo gallery? - Resolved

[Anita]

Hi Caith--
I'm using AT&T/Yahoo broadband. I also tried using Internet Explorer 7. The results are the same--the gallery is not logged in when the forum is.

The last few tries, it seems that I'm not able to login at the gallery, no matter how many times I re-log at the forum.

[Caith]

I'm thinking about what may be happening for some of you.

If you use a browser bookmark to surf directly to the Photo Gallery without logging into the forum first, that's likely the source of the issue. If you've selected the option on the forum login screen, the forum software will log you in whenever you visit the forum main page. After you're logged in to the forum, the Photo Gallery should recognize you as logged in.

If you're surfing directly to the Photo Gallery without first logging into the forum, the Photo Gallery will re-direct you to the forum login page. I'll check the Photo Gallery code this weekend, but I suspect this is the behavior you're seeing.

Please let me know if this is what's happening. Thanks!

[Caith]

Well, it's been about 45 minutes of reading the Coppermine Photo Gallery support forums, and I think I've found the answer. The phpBB forum software changed a few things in the sessions and security area when upgrading to version 2.0.18. We were previously using phpBB 2.0.17, and this appears to be the cause of the issue.

Fortunately we're not the first forum to see this problem, and I'm preparing to install a fix in the integration between the forum and the photo gallery. Please post follow-ups here to let me know if this resolves your issues. Thanks!

[Lydia]

All fixed, Caith.

Thanks, now I can upload some more beautiful (?) photos.

Hugs,

Lydia

[DonnaT]

[Caith]

Anita PM'ed last night saying it appeared to have resolved her problems too, so I think we're good on this issue. Thank you all for your patience!! Has it really only been seven days since I upgraded the forum?