Title: Logout Bug
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Logout Bug

 *  Resolved [grungyape](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grungyape/)
 * (@grungyape)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-3/)
 * Original post here: [closed] Logout Bug [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-2?replies=38](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-2?replies=38)
 * The WP w3all phpBB plugin still causes logout issues even in version 1.4.0, if
   you log in to WP, and visit the forum, selecting the ACP link (and log in) it
   produces a blank page, and logs you out of all locations.
 * If you disable the WP w3all phpBB plugin and try the exact same thing, it works
   just fine. I addressed this to phpBB3, and after clearing cookies, cache, etc.
   we were unable to reproduce the issue unless I enabled the WP w3all phpBB plugin.
   As a result, they indicated that the issue is not with phpBB3, but something 
   the plugin is causing.
 * axew3 thought it might be a cookie issue, and was going to test, but I have since
   heard no reply, and now the topic has been marked closed, still unresolved.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-w3all-phpbb-integration/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-w3all-phpbb-integration/)

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 *  Plugin Author [axew3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axewww/)
 * (@axewww)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-3/#post-7437794)
 * Hello, the problem is the plugin can’t interact with phpBB admin login:
    when
   you say you login wp side or phpBB side not admin all work ok, then clicking 
   on ACP login you get logout, is a scenario where can’t understand how the problem
   can come out I’ve try to imagine, based on your report, i’ve try to reproduce,
   but unfortunately nothing.
 * More in deep, if phpBB recognize correctly cookies on frontend, when they have
   been set by a login in WP side, cookies are recognized ok also on ACP. There 
   is no reason why should not.
 * You say on other post, if i’m not wrong, you are not iframe mode, and also if
   you login ACP directly, you’re logged out if wp_w3all is installed. But this 
   can’t be. Due to the fact in this case, WP_w3all and WP are completely excluded
   and separated from phpBB, there is no code about WP or wp_w3all that can interact
   with if not in iframe mode, when you are on phpBB. wp_w3all just work in WordPress
   side.
 *  Plugin Author [axew3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axewww/)
 * (@axewww)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-3/#post-7437801)
 * p.s how you have set phpBB -> domain cookie setting?
 *  [raykaii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raykaii/)
 * (@raykaii)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-3/#post-7437812)
 * phpbb works this way by default if you click on <Administration Control Panel
   > or <ACP> it will ask you to reenter your login info for security reasons before
   letting you in the admin panel.
 * as for the blank page i think you must have a bad settings in phpbb or in the
   
   wp_w3all settings. i can only talk for me but mine is working fine.
 *  Thread Starter [grungyape](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grungyape/)
 * (@grungyape)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-3/#post-7437815)
 * Correct, I’m “generally” familiar with phpBB, but still not sure why its killing
   my cookie.
 * The path, domain and name all seem valid.
 * Seeing as nothing in the plugin requires knowing the cookie name, I assume you
   are getting this information from somewhere? I see a few different named cookies
   for my domain.
 * I’m grabbing a fresh (new) browser to test cookie creation and naming.
 *  [raykaii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raykaii/)
 * (@raykaii)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-3/#post-7437819)
 * if i may ask what browser are you using ? so i can test it with the same browser
   as you.
 *  Thread Starter [grungyape](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grungyape/)
 * (@grungyape)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-3/#post-7437858)
 * I’m a chrome user 99.9% of the time.
 * I loaded firefox, fresh, and logged into WP, saw the cookies get created. I was
   able to match a cookie to the “cookie name” in phpBB.
 * I then deleted them and did it from the phpBB side. Over the course of say 10-
   15 times I was able to see this…
 * 100% of the time, if I logged into phpBB first, it created the cookies for phpBB“
   phpbb3_pnls7”. Sometimes, however, when logging into WP first, it created a cookie
   for phpBB with a different name, such as: “phpbb3_1bm21”
 * When this happens, I then have multiple phpbb cookies active in my cookie folder,
   all set for a year+ expiration. Also, when this cookie (or any cookie without
   the proper “name”) is created, the whole thing goes tits up when trying to log
   into the ACP.
 * I can only guess, and I am only guessing, that something is blocking|stopping
   |preventing WP and the plugin from creating a properly named cookie.
 * I did not see it, but is there anywhere I can hard code the “cookie” name that
   WP_w3all is trying to use to match what phpBB is expecting, and test again?
 *  Plugin Author [axew3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axewww/)
 * (@axewww)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-3/#post-7437870)
 * > 100% of the time, if I logged into phpBB first, it created the cookies for 
   > phpBB “phpbb3_pnls7”. Sometimes, however, when logging into WP first, it created
   > a cookie for phpBB with a different name, such as: “phpbb3_1bm21”
 * this should happen, if you have different phpBB installed on same domain: any
   phpBB install, go to create his proper cookie prefix: each belong to a different
   phpBB installation.
    So the other you see on your browser, should be maybe about
   some other phpBB, installed on the same domain.
 *  Thread Starter [grungyape](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grungyape/)
 * (@grungyape)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-3/#post-7437873)
 * That makes it more odd, the domain is mine, the server space as well, its the
   only install of phpBB.
 * Now it IS a shared server, as in hundreds of other customers on the server (different
   domains and folders) sharing the same IP.
 *  Plugin Author [axew3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axewww/)
 * (@axewww)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-3/#post-7437874)
 * > Now it IS a shared server, as in hundreds of other customers on the server (
   > different domains and folders) sharing the same IP.
 * No, this can’t cause the behavior about login fail on ACP.
    Nor the cookie issue…
   or it should be a crazy thing about apache, that i can’t think be possible.
 *  Plugin Author [axew3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axewww/)
 * (@axewww)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-3/#post-7437921)
 * [SOLVED]

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 * Last reply from: [axew3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/axewww/)
 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/logout-bug-3/#post-7437921)
 * Status: resolved