Problems Sessions/Connections

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Problems Sessions/Connections

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Hello everyone
Since we migrated to a new hosting, we've had a big problem with connections/sessions
Many members find themselves logged in under a different nickname. As an administrator myself, I find myself logged in under a moderator, for example, and sometimes I find myself logged in under a Google bot, for example.
Has this problem already been reported?

Sorry, I use a translator to communicate with you.

Sincerely

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Re: Problems Sessions/Connections

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Is the problem similar with prosilver?
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Re: Problems Sessions/Connections

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This can be a result of non phpBB-related server-side caching, like memcached, wincache etc.
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Re: Problems Sessions/Connections

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Yes, exactly the same with the prosilver style.

On the server side, we'd have to see if the hosting does caching in addition to the native phpBB caching?
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micka76 wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:56 am On the server side, we'd have to see if the hosting does caching in addition to the native phpBB caching?
Yes.
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Re: Problems Sessions/Connections

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I have disabled opcache in the settings
I've also disabled Tiger Cache, Memcached and XtremCache

Let's test and see what happens
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Opcache shouldn't be an issue.
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I'll put it back then and see with the other deactivated ones if it continues.
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For the moment it's working and I haven't had any feedback, in fact the forum's behavior has changed for the better.
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Re: Problems Sessions/Connections

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Hello everyone
I'm coming back to my problem, I'd like to know why the caching story was creating this bug in the nicknames by mixing sessions
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There is different types of caches and one type caches HTML output, it's either held in RAM or written to disk depending on the config and directly served to the user. This can have a tremendous increase in performance for static content site. There is no execution of php and no SQL queries.

This type of cache can't be used with phpBB because the content is dynamic. When someone loads a page the HTML output is cached and the next user gets cached version.
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Re: Problems Sessions/Connections

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Okay, thanks for pointing me in that direction, I understand the principle better now.

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