I too find the implementation of this particular feature confusing and struggled to get it to work as expected. I don't think this is the place for an official bug report, but to get the discussion going clearly, here is how I would describe the problem:

Preconditions:
- SSL is enabled and configured in System->Preferences
- User is not logged in and is viewing any page on the site
- "System->Preferences->General Settings->URL where SSL login page is located" is set tohttps://www.yoursite.com/extras/login.php (but this should be given the default URL of XOOPS_URL."/extras/login.php")
- login.php has its $path variable properly set

Expected behavior:
1. User clicks "Secure Login" link
2. System opens new window with SSL connection
3. System displays simple login form (username, password, submit button)
4. User fills in form and clicks "Submit" (or "Login" or whatever)
5. System authenticates user
6. System refreshes main page (now that user is logged in)
7. System closes the login window opened by the system in step 2

Actual behavior (2.0.7 and current CVS):
1. User clicks "Secure Login" link
2. System opens new window with SSL connection
3. System displays simple login form
4. User enters credentials and clicks Submit
5. System authenticates user
6. System displays text asking user to either log in or cancel
7. User clicks User Login button
+ Some browsers will complain at this point that the form is being sent in a non-secure way
8. System displays Close button
9. User clicks Close button
10. System refreshes main page with user now logged in

Postcondition:
- User is logged in in original window and has access to all password protected content

Recommendations:
- drop the new window login method in leiu of an SSL login module
- pop-up blockers may make this login method impossible
- user may simply close the login window (rather than clicking the Close button)
- a module integrates better with XOOPS than an extra

set permissions on your mainfile.php to not read-only
download mainfile.php
set database password to new value
upload mainfile.php to the webserver
set permissions for mainfile.php to read-only

My site is just a little hobby goofy site. I'm not overly conserned with security with it, we're just people with a similar obsession and wanna chat. That being said, we don't want to login every hour just to post something new or comment on a new screenshot or something.

I set it to "custom session" in the preferences and added a time of 10080 (1 week) to the session expiration. It says only good for php version 4.2.0 or later and my site is running 4.3.4 so I think it should work, but its still timing out after about an hour or so of idle time.

Am I missing something or is there some way to get it working so that we don't have to login for a couple days at a time?

Thanks for your help.

I am looking for some kind of hack or just a solution to my problem:

- I would like to set up 5 contact forms trough LIAISE contact module (no problem). I need to have these 5 contact forms send not to a group or admin but to CUSTOM EMAIL ADRESS!!!

Is it possible?

pls help

I installed the 2.0.9 update from 2.0.7.
In the process of installing that i also installed phpads.
When installing phpads i changed the database password on my server.
Now the main XOOPS site will not load.
I get error message:
This page cannot be displayed due to an internal error.

If you are the administrator of this site, please visit the XOOPS Troubleshooting Page for assistance.

Error [Xoops]: Unable to connect to database in file class/database/databasefactory.php line 34.
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- visithttp://www.shangrilala.co.uk and click on any of the links to see the above error.

So now i have a problem. I can't remember the old password for the database so how do i change XOOPS to regognise the new password?
You help is greatly appreciated.

We use wf-downloads on this site
available on www.wf-projects.com

HP = Hit Points
EXP = Experience
MP = I don't know

They are taken from the role-playing game world :)

Do anyone know what may cause the hp, mp, exp not working?

My site using the newbb2 release 2, and the USER hp,mp,exp is not working.

up :(

What do the abbreviations actually mean though?

HP = ?
MP = ?
EXP = ?