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By Chris
#300867
Changes have been made to the server this morning to bring the forum under the chrismoyles.net domain, rather than having it hosted at chrismoyles.co.uk addresses. This has involved making changes to DNS settings (the things that map the 'names' to 'numbers' when you enter a web address), however these changes don't happen instantly - and don't happen at the same time for everyone.

Soon any requests made to chrismoyles.co.uk will automatically redirect to the same URL on the chrismoyles.net domain, however this cannot be put in place until the DNS change has fully propegated otherwise some people would not be able to access the site.

As a side effect of the above, changes have been made to get the forum ready for the new URL and this could cause you to be logged out. If this happens, please try to access the forum via http://chrismoyles.net/phpBB3 rather than http://chrismoyles.co.uk/phpBB3 and the problem should vanish. If you continue to have problems please click the 'Delete all board cookies' link which you'll find at the bottom of every page in the grey coloured bar and the login once again.

[edit] I've now made the change, people whose DNS hasn't updated will catch us up soon enough. Again, if you have problems you may need to 'Delete all board cookies' and login again, then *hopefully* it'll stay for you.
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By MK Chris
#300909
Use http://chrismoyles.co.uk/phpBB3 as your forum address in the future, but it might not work at the moment.

I think they normally take around 24 hours to propagate fully.
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By MK Chris
#300913
That's what I meant. Sorry!
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By S4B
#300915
ok. I didn't really get the rest of the message but if that's the upshot that's what I'll do. Thanks both :D
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By Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog
#300918
I just had to log in about 6 times and each time it said I had done and my name was appearing as logged in even though I wasn't.
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By Yudster
#301031
Good, because I've been unable to get on here all day at work today. Its not natural!
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By S4B
#301045
Yes but Yuds "tomorrow" in Chris's message actually meant "today" So does that mean he was wrong?
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By MK Chris
#301060
You're just trying to be difficult now, aren't you?
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By kendra k
#301087
i was able to login, but it kept saying i wasn't logged in until i cleared all my cookies for this site. then it worked.
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By MK Chris
#301091
That's what I had to do too Kendra.
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By Yudster
#301099
Chris wrote:Not being able to access the forum is a different problem to getting logged out (basically your DNS hasn't updated as yet) - that will correct itself in a short time.


It did. Thank you very much.
kendra k wrote:i was able to login, but it kept saying i wasn't logged in until i cleared all my cookies for this site. then it worked.


I'm glad I don't seem to have to do this because I wouldn't have a clue how to go about it.
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By Console
#301111
Gaspode, does it keep you logged in while you stay on the site? If so, once you've logged in, can you click on the 'Forum' link in the top menu; are you still logged in?
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By Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog
#301139
yeah its just when I go elsewhere. It started working again for a few days last week but now its gone again. I am fine on other messageboards.
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By Console
#301149
It sounds like your browser isn't accepting cookies from this site, although the domain change should have sorted that out. If you're using Firefox check under the Preferences -> Privacy -> Cookies -> Exceptions to see if it lists any of the cm.net domains. In Internet Explorer I think it's under Options -> Privacy -> Sites.
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By MK Chris
#301154
That's a good point, when you are viewing several pages on this site, do you see in the address bar "sid=lots of letters/numbers" on every page? That would confirm Console's theory, cos normally you should only see that on the first or second page you visit that session.
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By Mcqueen_
#301316
I have to log in at some point each day. I check keep me logged in and can leave the site, come back and it'll be alright for about 24hours then I have to log in again.