Hello - on my public-facing Limesurvey installation (Version 1.91 Build 10120), I recently encountered a problem where I log into Limesurvey as admin. It shows that I'm sucessfully logged in, with my name displaying. Once I click anything, it takes me back to the login screen and says "You have to login first."

I'm using IE 8. I can successfully log in with a few other browsers I've tried (Firefox, Chrome)

I recently got a new machine so I'm guessing it's some setting in Internet Explorer causing this, but just not sure which one. I have a few other users with the same problem, but one user is not having the problem.

I've got a test server version of Limesurvey running and can successfully log in there with no problem there using IE 8.

Any ideas? Thanks for any help.

Lainie

Lainie,
look at this other post, it sounds very similar !

Ben.

The linked thread above offers some solutions.

I'm not sure if this is a session related problem though because if it works with other browsers, that would mean it's browser related. Did you try clearing cahce and cookies?

I cleared temporary internet files and cookies - no change. I even changed my browsing history (check for new pages...) setting from "Automatically" to "Every time I visit the page".

I went ahead and tried what was mentioned in the linked post by placing an .htaccess in the /limesurvey folder, which included the following info.

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_value session.auto_start 0
</IfModule>

This had no effect also.

When you are using other browsers, can you log in AND use some functions at the admin backend without problems?

I just now added a new user with no problem using Firefox.

Then it's probably a browser related problem.

If the admin interface works fine with a different browser and filling out a survey with IE also works, then there is no real problem

I can confirm that this auto-logout behavior also occurs with Google Chrome 18.0.1025.151 on Mac OS X 10.6.8.

It occurs on the default admin as well as created admin users.

When using Chrome's "Incognito" the behavior is no longer an issue.

Safari works.

Because "Incognito" worked, it is probably a cookie issue. I reloaded the page with the Developer Tools. Under Resources->Cookies->MyLimeSurveyServerIP there seemed to be redundant cookies. Delete them and the auto-logout no longer occurred.

Cheers,
Joe