We are getting an increasing number of reports on the community forum of users logging in but the system still then showing them as not logged in. I have had this myself in the last week. We originally thought this was restricted to custom domains, but the post at http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-857922/comments/show?from=activities#post-2025970 indicates it might not be.
Another thread this relating to this is at http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-857396/help-admin-login-fouled-up
It might be a browser issue but could the devs look into this please.
Any news on this? I've gotten 2 calls today from my users who are experiencing this. Their issue is with Google Chrome. I tried clearing "everything since the beginning of time" and doing a browser reset, but still no joy. I have applied a band-aid to this situation by having them switch to using Firefox for accessing our wiki.
I had this issue on my home PC about 3 weeks ago while using Firefox. A browser reset fixed it for me. I have not personally had issues with Chrome yet (I tend to use both equally to access Wikidot).
Edit: I should add that if my users visit wikidot.com, they are logged in and see the "Hello, User Name!" message, but as soon as they navigate to our private wiki with a custom domain, they get the private site message and it looks like they are not logged in.
Community Admin
I just had this happen to me while using Firefox on my work PC. Before resetting the browser, I decided to do some extra digging this time.
I believe I have figured out a solution (although I'm still not sure of the root cause). It seems to be related to
3rd party cookies being blocked. In Firefox, I added an exception for "wikidot.com" and after doing that I refreshed my private site's page and my content appeared.
To test this in Chrome, I went in and blocked 3rd party cookies and I was able to repeat the issue with my private site with a custom domain. After adding an exception in Chrome, I refreshed and my content appeared.
Adding an Exception in Firefox
Adding an Exception in Chrome
My best guess is that version updates to Chrome and Firefox may be triggering this and our login credentials are being seen as being from a 3rd party due to using a custom domain. I'm not sure if Wikidot can do anything to resolve this since it seems like a stricter security policy is being used with our browsers. I'm just happy I have some steps I can document for my users to fix this.
Community Admin
tried this with IE, firefox, chrome - not able to login to my customer domain praemien-teilen24.de, even with the adaptations in the exceptions suggested by Ed. As i have also marked the custom domain as the only accessible site i cannot login and do edit the page.
When will this be fixed?
At work i do not have the issue - but in my new apartment where i have not yet broadband i am using wifi testhering and there it does not work.
This bug has resurfaced - today I cannot edit any site with a custom domain on any browser. I'll do the usual things mentioned above but is there any progress on fixing this bug?
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
Arrrggghhhh, we are looking into this.
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Can this one be marked as Done? Seems like an old issue that is likely fixed based on the comments.
Trying to help clean up the feedback site a bit and this seems like a good candidate for a status change.
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I don't show up as logged in on scp-wiki
Google chrome showes all wikidot websites as "Not secure"
and dont show up as logged in on any wikidot website except the main website
Nvm i manneged to fix it
Stupid google chrome
Apparently, the bug is still there again…