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Problems while Subscribing on a Thread [vBulletin]

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Hello,

I have a vBulletin forum. Once I want to subscribe on a thread (post), it's giving me an error saying that I've been logged. I have contacted the vBulletin forum manager and they said it is a webhosting issue. So, I am now here to get help for that.

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This happends either if I subscribe or unsubscribe to a thread here: http://diverity.net/forum/subscription. ... ion&t=1215 or here: http://diverity.net/forum/subscription. ... ion&t=1216

I want this feature to work. vBulletin said it might be something related to 'mod_security' or something else familiar.

Edit: I also get this error if I load the "Cookies and HTTP Header Options".

Thanks !
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Re: Problems while Subscribing on a Thread [vBulletin]

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Could you post exactly what they said?
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Re: Problems while Subscribing on a Thread [vBulletin]

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Edge100x wrote:Could you post exactly what they said?
They just said "it might be something related to 'mod_security' or something else familiar"
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That was a pretty unhelpful response from them.

Troubleshooting this would require solid knowledge of how vBulletin works, and it's something that they should be able to do well.

Absent further guidance from them, the first thing that you should do is look to see if you installed it in a subfolder with a parent that contains an .htaccess file. For instance, if you installed it inside of a Drupal installation, that would certainly break it -- putting anything inside Drupal does not work. If so, you should move the vBulletin installation elsewhere.

On our end, in terms of the global configuration, we use the standard Apache stuff. I know that many customers have used vBulletin successfully.
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Re: Problems while Subscribing on a Thread [vBulletin]

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How can I see if a .htaccess is installed ?
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This is something that you can see through your FTP/SFTP client as long as you have it configured to show all files (by default, many hide files starting with a ".").
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John, most likely he set the cookies URL using www. in his config in vBulletin.

admincp>Site Name / URL / Contact Details


Basically you will have to make an option in .htaccess to route domain.net to www.domain.net or vice versa depending what OP wants to do.
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Or set the cookie to ".domain.com" and then it will accept all the subdomains.
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Re: Problems while Subscribing on a Thread [vBulletin]

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Thanks everyone! I found the reason why: it's because I installed a plugin and it was blocking some parts of my forum.
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