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General Category => Techie Or Suggestions => Topic started by: Sorastro on August 30, 2019, 11:33:03 AM

Title: Need advice
Post by: Sorastro on August 30, 2019, 11:33:03 AM
Accidentally lost this site a couple of days ago, can't seem to log back onto secure site, every other site is o.k
What am I doing wrong will stay offline {not secure} till someone suggests answer.....please and thanks
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Fly on August 30, 2019, 08:26:33 PM
Click the link in the 2nd post of this thread. Your system just needs a kick in the arse.
http://www.chesterfieldonline.org/index.php?topic=6958.msg45605#msg45605

Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Sorastro on August 30, 2019, 09:15:13 PM
Click the link in the 2nd post of this thread. Your system just needs a kick in the arse.
http://www.chesterfieldonline.org/index.php?topic=6958.msg45605#msg45605

Did that Fly many times over even started with an empty google page and hand typed it back in but no joy,every thing else is coming in o.k. I think the computer might not be recognising it {why I don't know}
Grandaughters boyfriend will be here Sat P.M. will ask him, will keep trying thanks..
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Fly on August 30, 2019, 10:25:02 PM
Just to reassure you Sorastro, the forum files and database are hosted on and with a professional, 'paid for', by me, company.
Plus the only info about any members stored is their email address.
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Fly on August 30, 2019, 11:18:04 PM
Contacted the hosting company. They gave me a few pointers of things to check.
All should be sorted. Everything secure and fully padlocked down now.

Don't know why, but the banner(picture) at the top of the page wasn't secure. Eh !!!  (y) MD
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Fly on August 31, 2019, 08:03:04 AM
Don't forget to check all your bookmarks or saved favourites/links to the forum. They must include the 's' at the end of 'http'
EG: https://www.chesterfieldonline.org
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Sorastro on August 31, 2019, 11:23:42 AM
Thank you Fly.... just clicked onto the above and I now have the padlock and it says site secure.
It just says chesterfieldonline.org {in bold after the padlock} the rest not, but seems to have done the trick.

Thanks again....
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Fly on August 31, 2019, 11:30:05 AM
There's not many people use the forum, but I'll always do my best to make members feel safe if they do (y)
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Sorastro on December 20, 2020, 11:59:47 AM
Just a query Fly.. nothing major.

The last 3 times I have logged on, whatever page I'm on when I attempt to log on and click login it flips to a different page and It doesn't log me in, but on the second attempt it works o.k. and I'm in...........funny that, as I say not important just wondering why? Thanks H.
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Fly on December 20, 2020, 11:32:51 PM
Not sure tbh, haven't had any probs this end.  Thanks for bringing to to my attention, I'll make a note.

Anyone else noticed owt ?
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Alsatian on December 21, 2020, 09:59:02 AM
Not sure tbh, haven't had any probs this end.  Thanks for bringing to to my attention, I'll make a note.

Anyone else noticed owt ?

All fine this end Fly
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Sorastro on December 21, 2020, 11:02:59 AM
Just a query Fly.. nothing major.

The last 3 times I have logged on, whatever page I'm on when I attempt to log on and click login it flips to a different page and It doesn't log me in, but on the second attempt it works o.k. and I'm in...........funny that, as I say not important just wondering why? Thanks H.


Yep just done it again......On festive wishes post when I tried to log on...went straight to Covid 19 post and no log in, 2nd attempt fine.
Not bothered so much so long as I can still log on to site but weird all the same.
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Sorastro on January 11, 2021, 08:00:30 PM
Just an update Fly....

Started losing wi-fi a few days ago and rang plusnet, ended up taking the cover off the phone jack and plugging it directly in which seemed better. They sent out an engineer to check the exterior lines and reported they had found a fault, since then O.K. but still jumps when logging on but not every time now.
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Fly on January 13, 2021, 01:33:02 PM
I didn't quite understand what you meant the first time you mentioned this peculiarity, so I didn't actually 'do'  anything.

So, this time I followed your post to the letter and guess what, you're right.
You come to the forum home page, select a board, and a thread/topic in it, then 'login'.
It logs you in, but takes you onto the next thread/topic.

I've got an idea why it's doing it, a bug in the software, the login page is adding a 1 to the thread count,
but I think it's out of my knowledge to fix it.
I'll see if the forum has missed any updates to it's software, and ask a few questions on the SMF forum users group  (y)
Title: Re: Need advice
Post by: Sorastro on February 20, 2021, 01:07:52 PM
Update....

The last half dozen times I've logged in it's working o.k. now, I'm logged on first attempt and it doesn't jump anymore {fingers crossed}