Here is what's happening with my site (and apperently a LOT of others):
When I go to my site, and click around, I might click on a link to one of my EZ pages or a category (any link other than login), and the login page comes up!
I try to go to a different page (again any link other than login) and it just stays on the login page.
I put something in my cart so I can test it, go to checkout, and the cart is GONE! and the login loop goes again.
I go to the login page (nothing in my cart), login fine. Then when I click around, I am logged out and the login loop starts all over.
The only way I have found to stop the login loop once it starts is to go up to the browser bar and delete the "login" from the url and hit enter. Not very ideal.
First of all, the login page should only be coming up in two cases:
1.) When the login link is clicked.
2.) When a customer goes to checkout with something (in this case it should have the COWOA stuff on the login page as it is installed, but it doesn't when the login loop starts going).
This problem was not caused by installing the COWOA mod, as it was happening before I installed it and that is WHY I installed it.
It was not happening before I upgraded from 1.3.8a to 1.3.9*.
I currently have 1.3.9g (why so many different ones for this version set? Oh well.), am hosted on GoDaddy with an SSL, and use IE8.
The hosting doesn't matter according to what I have been reading through the forums. Same with whether or not there is SSL. Nor does it matter what browser a person is using. (I have read that people are having problems with dreamhost, yahoo, and other hosts; both with and without SSL; FireFox, IE, Chrome, Opera and other browsers.) It also doesn't matter if the cache is cleared in the browser, and there are no debug files related to this issue in the cache folder on my server.
It doesn't seem to be just a problem with settings in "admin > configuration > sessions" as people have reported trying several different settings, all with the same result.
This problem needs to be fixed SOON, as I think it will make people not want to shop on the sites that are having the problem. (eg. "If they're having problems with their login page, what other problems do they have?")
What changes were made to the upgraded login files that would cause this? Or any other files for that matter?
I use WinMerge for all of my upgrades now (easier and safer than going into each of the individual files and changing them manually), but I don't think there have been any issues with that, and I pay really close attention to the files as I work on them.
Would the programmers please figure out what is causing this, as the programming is the only thing I can think of that could be causing the problem.
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