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    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    Hello,

    I have encountered this problem twice and have corrected it by flushing coockies and caches from IE (i also used Mozilla mac/pc and even safari)

    Invalid variable value : offset = -6460941
    (this the last, the number keep changing)

    Worst, as i'm inviting other people to check the site some got error some not... It is a ratio near 1/2 i can help them for now cause there are few and they help me to set the site but when it will be wide open it will be a pain in the... as i have 35 000 hit each month to deal with.



    Does anyone encountered this error and where shoul i look.


    Yoni

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    Posted by Terence? posts: 71 United States
    What version of Tiki are you using?


    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    Ok guys,

    This problem is still going on and this time with a brand new (from scratch) 1.9.c3 CVS. It hapen less, but it still happen !


    The workaround is to delete the cookie from my tiki on the local computer and to refresh the page.

    This is a major problem that cause lost of visitors !!!


    Yoni

    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092

    Does this happen on a specific place or action?
    This remains me a cookie tz_offset (and not offset) that has a value like that.
    I don't know what this is cookie is for. In tiki-js.js, you can see
    // Set client offset (in minutes) to a cookie to avoid server-side DST issues
    // Added 7/25/03 by Jeremy Jongsma (jjongsma@tickchat.com)

    ... just an idea

    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    Hi Sylvie,

    On the 1.9rc3 (remember it happen less) with me (another user warn me) it happen twice while i was "creating a new wiki page.

    I was using french language.

    I have set new menu item or create a link (i can't remember) on a page ( (tchat) ) (without the paces) and when clicking it i got a message this page is not created. Then i click on " Do you want to create it ?" Then it happen.


    ... I have read the Jeremy message, but it doesn't help me as the only cookie i knew have been eaten a long time ago ! 😀

    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092

    So I was wrong it is not tz_offset but offset. The problem , I can't find where this cookie is created 😑👻

    Another general idea, because you tell me it is better with 1.9... The number of cookies for a domain is limited: 20 and the size of a cookie is 4KB. See details at CookieMonster
    You will see that I began to fix that at least all the menu cookies are in the same cookies. But there are a lot of other places...
    Do you use feature like phplayers?

    Mais ce n'est pas le français qui crée le problème (enfin j'espère)

    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    Well,

    It was better...😢

    It seams that a brand new 1.9 request less cookies.

    After 2 days of hard work, the problem comes very (too much) often.

    May be that as my tiki is cutomized, this introduce too much cookies ?


    As i said i don't know much about cookies
    But i have found the admin item cookie... empty. I have upload mydomaintiki cookies...it is a realy fresh one and i have yet 18 cookies...

    As you seams like me fluent in french i'm ok to help you to solve this by giving you access to my admin and so on... (but private message 😊)

    Your wish are my command... about Tiki 😊


    Posted by sylvie greverend posts: 1092

    I need only the site URL. It is a cookie problem
    If it is israelfr.com.... It is too far away from the original tiki

    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    Hi Sylvie,

    It just happen again !

    I was logged under admin and i click on "admin-group.php.

    My browser show the offset error. Under;
    C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxx\Cookies

    I found two cookies;

    xpuser at www.mysite1.txt
    xpuser at www.israelfr2.txt

    The newer was the 1 containing;

    tz_offset
    10800
    tikiwiki.org/
    1088
    2251818240
    29732810
    227007040
    29659385


    I erased it and after refresh my wiki get back.

    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    ARGLllllllllllllllllll

    The error was about this one "offset -5995211" but my last comment
    was shortened !

    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    Sorry for multiple post.... 😕

    I got it again... here the cookie contain.


    Error offset is : offset -5994165

    tz_offset
    10800
    www.mysite.com/
    1088
    2301883648
    29732812
    283942448
    29659387
    "star"
    lastvisit
    1094136156835
    www.mysite.com/
    1088
    2401883648
    29732812
    383942448
    29659387
    "star"
    offset
    -5994165
    www.mysite.com/
    1088
    2401883648
    29732812
    383942448
    29659387
    "start"


    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    Ok,

    After the great help of Sylvie (many thanks for your time) we found the problem.

    On the same domain i use Tikiwiki and a external forum (discus). They both use the same cookie as there are on teh same domain.

    As my forum doesn't seams to have any problem with that, Tikiwiki read it all then seams to be stuck somewhere with the datas from Discus.

    The problem found doesn't mean it is solved. I guesse something should be done to avoid tikiwiki to read anything else than his own data.

    Meanwhile i'll try to set a sub-domain for my forum forcing the use of two cookie, one for tikiwiki and one for discus.


    I'll let you know about it !


    Yoni


    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    I have reinstall my forum on a sub-domain to avoid that tiki and discus uses the same cookie.

    It is now working fine. But this should be solved and tiki forced to read what it need and nothing more.