Hello Mark

Thanks for your reply, I just checked that setting and it was already set to yes, guess its been like it for years.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Stuart

It shouldn't be like that, it's not an optimal setting to have.

If that's set to yes, then you need to speak to your host. There is some sort of caching going on and it's breaking your forum.

You should also disable plugins via config.php just to make sure it's not a rogue add-on causing problems:

To disable the plugin/hook system completely, edit includes/config.php and add the following code:
Just below
enter

Thank you Mark for your help with this, I just disabled the plugins as you suggested but it doesn't appear to have made a difference unfortunately.

Is there anything specific or a starting area to look that I can pass onto the guy who helps look after my server to look for please to help solve this?

Thanks again

Stuart

Just that it's some sort of caching. If it's working in private browsing modes then those are bypassing the caching.

Thank you Mark I have passed it on. I also have an issue where I have to login each visit too which never used to be the case, I guess this is related? Thanks again for the help your a star!

Yep that's almost certainly going to be the same thing.

Hi Mark

Back to trying to fix my forum issue, spoke with my tech and he isn't exactly sure of the issue and had this to say:

"When you log in it redirects you to a URL such as
domain.com/forum/search.php?searchid=275740. Notice the
search ID in the query string. The problem is this search will only be
valid for 5 or 10 min (VB caches search results for a short time). If you
visit the URL after that you'll get a 'no search results found' message.

To compound this problem, it looks as if the redirect is being cached (in
the web browser): I tried logging out, logging back in, and my browser
redirected to the same searchid ... even though it was now out of date.

So we need to figure out why it redirects to the search page after login.
Is this a change that you've made, perhaps? A safer option would be to
redirect to domain.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew. "

and I never noticed it before either till he mentioned it as I have a short cut on Chrome but when I click to my forum using domain.com/forum it takes me straight to a search page showing the last three days worth of posts or in most cases telling me it can't find any posts.

Any ideas on this one....starting to feel like Westworld looking for the center of the maze :)

Thank you again

Sorry to be the thread bumper but can anyone give me any further help with this one? Many thanks.