I am getting somewhere :nervous:

I installed the BBmessenger hack. Was working well. In there, there is an instance where they say to put in vb licence number if asked. Was not asked and I did not put it, and it worked. Last week, for some reasons, I put in licence number but that was defined already in the code by doing a ../. Today, I removed it and I just got a PM from a member saying the scrolling message in there works again (did not even know that stopped). When I go on who's online, I am able to follow myself every where, without a problem. I still do not see any one, but at least I have no problem with two of me or the page not updating my location.

Is it possible to have such a thing caused by a double licence entry?

To answer this question: No. The constant VB_AREA just defines that you are in the forum, it doesn't have anything to do with the path.

hmm, when you are getting logged out, or such problems, it may also be a glitch in sessions.php

did you change that file maybe?

sessions.php ... I think I did. Thanks for the pointer. I hope I'll find something in there.

well, I did a beyond compare, and the only thing that was changed in there was the Allow Guest to Choose Language hack, which was installed months ago. So back to square two.

At least I am beginning to see some people and I am able to follow myself without disruption. All this after I removed the licence number in BBmessenger hack.

Maybe you should completely remove the bbmessenger hack then, and hope the problems will be removed as well?

Xenon, I got happy a bit too fast... now it is square one instead of square two

OK, looks like it is hanging in there. However I have a question: Is it normal for invisible admin to see admin activity in profile as offline? I see myself as such, but I see other's activity.

After a month of troubleshooting, I noticed the following important point:

After the 900 seconds of inactivity, if I go back online, the whosonline is confused and not knowing where I am, it displays that I am looking at whosonline and regardless where i go, will not budged until I logout or log back in BUT if I log in admin, then everything is back to normal, and whosonline become alive.

Also if I logout without going into admin, and log back in, it will show two of me.

What could cause admin login to re-activate the session? Where can I look for that? I dissected my session.php already. What is different between admin CP and site?

Just so no one goes to the same miseries that I went thru, here was the problem.

After reading a post at vbulletin.com, looks like my problems were in the navbar. I had placed the loggedin info in the header, at the right of the logo.

At vbulletin.com I read that someone was constantly having an error when trying to log out, one of my symptom. The answer from the developper was to revert to the original navbar. Since mine was obviously messed up big time, I started from scratch, reverting the header and the navbar. Now, I do not have logout errors anymore, and most important, I do not see two of myself anymore plus I am beginning to see people online. And I can navigate away from site, who's online will not freeze anymore.

Moral of the story: Do not mess up with that navbar.

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