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#129551 - 08/06/06 03:53 PM
Re: Tracking not working correctly 6.5.5.
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Registered: 08/10/06
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Anyway to pull this out and fix it or are there so many modules that it isn't realistic? I have 5 complaints just today about this. Here is how this one reads: Quote:
Fred,
When I first signed up here the software performed like it does at the other site. When I log on I see the yellow balloons to the left signifying messages that are either new since my last logon, or old ones that I haven't yet read.
Now that feature isn't working, there aren't any balloons on the left, ever. The only way I can figure out if there are new posts in forums of interest is to look at the date. I'm in essence having to work backwards, look through all the forums, then look at each thread to see when it is dated, click on the thread and then begin at the end and read forward to find a post I haven't read. As you can imagine this is very time consuming. I haven't changed anything on my computer re: cookies or anything else. And it was working correctly for me.....
Any clue?
edit: A balloon just showed up, this makes me think that balloons are shown only for posts that are created after I log on, and when I leave there is no cookie that identifies to the software what has been posted since I last logged off.
I have seen on several 6.5 boards where it works correctly (most of the time). They obviously have found a work around, but have not "shared" with the rest of us.
I need a work around or for version 7 to be released quickly. Any idea on either?
Fred
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#129555 - 08/28/06 08:09 PM
Re: Tracking not working correctly 6.5.5.
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Registered: 08/28/06
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What's strange is there are some server/setups this works flawlessly on. I talk with some people that never have a problem or complaint about it, while others have all sorts of problems.
I run our boards from multiple servers behind a load balancer and, before the upgrade to 6.5.5 (from 6.4.4 I think), I had straight, round-robin balancing; meaning anyone who hit a page had, pretty much, an equal change of hitting one of the 4 servers behind the load balancer and each user would hop around between servers the whole time they were looking at the boards. When I did the upgrade, we started having the same problem mentioned here and in a couple other threads.
It looks like, during a user's visit, posts that they have read during that visit are stored in a PHP session, which is local to a particular server. So, when a user would bounce between our 4 servers, they'd get all sorts of weird results because each server behind the balancer had a different idea of who had been where. All I had to do to fix it was turn on 'persistence,' which basically means that a user, over a period of time (usually a single visit via a temporary cookie), keeps hitting the same server over and over again instead of bouncing around all over the place.
I bet most people in a hosted environments don't even know if they're site is being served from one host or from multiple hosts behind a balancer and, if so, whether that balancer has a notion of session persistence or not.
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