acurran

Same problem here. In my case it worked at first. Then I moved the site to another server/domain name and upgraded to WP2.5 and now template wont stick for the posts page. I’ve checked all settings over & over again but can’t find the problem.

Playing around with it a bit further, I expected that another way to logout would be to copy the url from the sign out link and manually add in the ‘www’ bit. But to my surprise that did not work as expected. What happened is that it did actually log me out but then when I removed the ‘www’ from the url I discovered I was still logged in! So then I tried this again immediately followed by going to the log out url without the ‘www’. However that would not log me out – it redirected back to the dashboard still logged in. Baffling!

Update:

I’ve figured a way to reproduce this bug:

1. go to login page e.g. https://www.yourdomain.com/wordpressdirectory/wp-login-php and log in.
2. Click Sign Out to log out
3. now go to login page without the ‘www’ and login
4. Click Sign Out to log out
5. go to the login page WITH the www bit. You should be still logged out but instead you may find that you are still actually logged in and it will take you directly to dashboard

Note: depending on your config you may need to switch around and start with the ‘no www’ case first in order to reproduce.

Once you get ‘locked in’ the only way I know to log out is to clear your cookies in the browser

I have exact the same problem – ‘sign out’ link does not log me out and redirects to dashboard. Same version of WP – 2.1.2

I have set it up on 2 separate websites – different hosts (one Windows/IIS, the other Linux/apache) and experienced the problem on both setups so it is not likely to be hosting related.

I do not know steps to reproduce this bug – all I know is right now I am ‘locked in’ in my Firefox browser but I tested my IE6 browser and logout is working ok at the moment.

Smells like a cookie related bug to me.

My hunch was that it is something to do with switching between using the ‘www’ before the domain name and not using it – which may affect how the cookies are accessed.