Not showing posts ($cookie_domain solution for Drupal 5.2)

I have the same problem on my site. I can create schats and write messages, but they do not show up in the message field.

Am running Drupal 5.2 and Chat Room 5.x-1.x-dev

/Sten

Same here. A client site is running a Drupal 5.1 site (with the security patches) and we can't update until Chat room works with 5.2.

This qualifies as a bug, IMO.

Possible workaround (worked for me)

I set $cookie_domain to my base domain in settings.php and messages show up again.

Hope this helps someone.

Works for me. Thanks, gypsymanz.

More on this issue:

http://drupal.org/node/160068
http://drupal.org/node/164350
http://drupal.org/node/159854#comment-276151

Works for me too, thanks.

Yep, fixed the problem on my site as well.
Thanks gypsymanz

/Sten

could someone please post an example of how to set a $cookie_domain ? I know its probably a newb thing to ask, but I've searched google and just got confused even more, and found no good examples of this.. thanks!

$cookie_domain is in settings.php, in your site's configuration folder, in the Drupal sites directory. Setting it will make subdomains of a domain act as one domain. You could set $base_url instead to solve the problem.

My recommendation is not to worry about it and just use the development version of Chat Room, which boots Drupal in a two-step process that causes cookies to be set normally.

but the development version doesn't work in 5.2, and this was suggested to fix it. I'm using the very latest dev of the chatroom module, and its still not working.

is there a foreseen timeline for 5.2 and chatrooms working? chatrooms is too good to not have on our site :)

It does work in 5.2. No fixing should be necessary. Try posting an issue explaining exactly what is not working.

I tried both.
First I set
$base_url = 'http://www.my-domain.no';
And now it's work ok.
so I tried:
$cookie_domain = 'http://www.my-domain.no';
and my chat dissaper. Gone..
So for me it was
$base_url = 'http://www.my-domain.no'; and that fix my problem.

Anyone tried with Drupal 5.3 ???

Maria,

Admin/contentmanagement/content/ This will show all the content on your site. You should see the Chat rooms their. Notice the URL it is pointing to and that is the URL of your chat room.

James

Maria, it is hard to tell you the URL to the chatroom. It is whatever you make it.

Log on to your site with admin permissions.
goto Administer
Under the section of Content management you will see content. If you click on this you will see all the content on your site. This page will be a table and you will see "Type" along the top. Look down the list for a Type of "Chatroom" This will be your chat room you created. If you click the name of the chat room it will take you to the chatroom. The URL will be displayed in the web address of your internet browser.

If you give us more details we can help out more. Like what version of Chatroom are you using. Your site URL.

I hope this helps you out.

James

I am using chatroom in Drupal 6 on OpenSUSE 11.3. The chat rooms appear, but typing never gets posted to my chatrooms.
I have base_url set:
$base_url = 'http://ultimatetrekker.selfip.com/forum';
And cookie_domain set:
$cookie_domain = 'ultimatetrekker.selfip.com';

If I put forum in the cookie_domain, no one can log in.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Jim

Druapal verson 6.17 and up
In version 6.17 they changed the cookie_domain url from (in your case) $cookie_domain = 'ultimatetrekker.selfip.com'; to $cookie_domain = '.ultimatetrekker.selfip.com';
Try to put a "." in your url for cookie_domain.