I did worked out a temporary solution to login problems with IE7 and IE8:

Make a htaccess file and let it direct to http://www.domain.com/forums/ubbthreads.php if the url not containing 'www.domain.com'

Thank you

It would be nice if this can be fixed for 7.5.3 - might be a while before we have something new and logging in is kind of important

As Ruben suggested earlier, multi URL is checked. Still having problems. Just helped a guy tonight with it (I hope).
I do not know what the answer is or if there is one, dealing with IE can really be a hair ripper.

Thanks for listening and I hope a closer look can be taken.

Sincerely
Mike

I strongly suspect Arentzen's htaccess solution will solve this issue in a Linux/Apache environment, and it's good SEO practice to have this set up anyway.

I'm using my son's computer for my IE8 testbed since I don't want to update my own I should be able to get this fixed for 7.5.3.

Hmm, can't duplicate this on several sites I've tested so far. Have tried both allow and disallow multi-url and everything works fine. Still looking for what might be going on.

I can't see why it would be the redirect, since the URL is changed when you first go to the site.

Just tried on Mike's bowltech site and no issues logging in there either. This is with the default IE8 settings.

Doing a little research and this appears to be an issue on several websites, banks, istockphoto, etc. Apparently, you have to add some websites to the compatibility mode list and restart the browser.

Another solution is to add this to the list of meta tags:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

Still doesn't really explain why it's working for some and not for others, but that's what I've found so far.

For anyone having an issue try adding that line to your header insert in the control panel:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

If it works, I may just put that in by default until I can figure out specifically what it doesn't like.

Ok, have added to the insert lets see what happens.

Thanks Rick.

Mike