Strange phpBB3 problem after moving to new server

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  1. Tchoin

    Tchoin Site Patron

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    Hi folks!

    My cousin has recently moved his site's phpBB3 forum to my shared hosting account, and we encountered 2 different problems.

    First one was that all the messages/threads were corrupt and sentences cut off with no aparent reason (other than being cut off right after a "ñ" or vowels with " ´ ").

    I stepped in and made a proper backup of the old forum (via phpBB3's Administration Control Panel) and then restored it on the new forum (via the same way). After that everything seemed fine, but then the second problem kicked in: it was imposible to log in. If you try to log in nothing happens, enter your data and click the login button, it seems to process something but then nothing happens.

    I find no logical reason for this to happen, I made a clean move and all the config files seem to be OK. I even purged the forum's cache a thousand times but no luck.

    :confused:

    Might have something to do with cookie config, but really dunno, never had this issue before when moving phpBB forums to other servers.

    BTW the forum has no mods nor anything else than a style installed on it.

    I am open to suggestions.
     
  2. z_killemall

    z_killemall Familiar Face

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    Just mailed you with a couple of suggestions, let me know if none of them work :D
     
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  3. Hellcat

    Hellcat Robust Member

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    About the login issue:

    Check the cookie settings, path and domain.
    If you moved the forum to another server it's like the domain changed as well, and if the domain and path set in the cookie doesn't match the actual one, the PHP scripts never get the stored info (=login) back.
     
  4. Tchoin

    Tchoin Site Patron

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    Duh! Dumb me, it was the cookie settings, just as you said Hellcat.

    Fixed already.
     
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