Locally hosted board for testing - please help

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Hi all,

Let me try and quickly give you some background information first.

At the beginning of the year I bought an existing domain for which I already had acquired its database, and other rights. It was still running 3.1.2, in a non-standard setup. I managed to get this working under 3.1.4, with as ultimate aim to move it to 3.4.4, etc., and continue from there. However, in order to do so I need not only to have everything working the way it should, which I am quite capable to do, but I also need it to work in a test environment, for testing and developing new products.

I travel a lot for work and don't have always access to the internet as a result, but will always have a laptop with me, so I set out to have a locally installed test board, on my Win 7 hosted local PC or laptop. After trying a bunch of options, Zend Server, different WAMPP and XAMPP distros, I settled eventually on an install from scratch of the different parts, as that gave me better control, and easier and faster upgrade options for the individual parts (Apache, PHP and MySQL). I got all of the above working ok, actually, with ionCube loader, and in itself the board appears to be running fine.

Appears to be is the keyword here, as it indeed does, except for one thing. It appears I cannot edit a user account from the ACP, with regard to user name, password, email account or display name, and I need this facility to work as well for the stuff I am trying to achieve. This didn't work on the original board either, but I found that that was caused by the strict ip-checking option which was turned on in the security part of the ACP. When turning that off, it worked fine on the actual website.

However, this made no difference on my local test board. Still the same problem. Trying to edit any of those four items essentially logs one out, and one is faced with the ACP log on screen again.

I have noticed that the locally hosted test board cannot communicate with the Invision license server, and I am currently thinking that that is actually causing this.

So, my question is, how do I go about setting the test site up in such a way that it can access the Invision license server whenever I have internet access? If anybody here has an idea on how to do this, I would really appreciate any tips and tricks - I am quite new to all of this type of stuff.

Thank you very much in advance.

Warm regards, Wim

[Aiwa]

Not communicating to the license server isn't the problem...

Do you have mod_sec or suhosin installed on your localhost for some reason? You really wouldn't need them if you're not making it web accessible.

[Luis Manson]

check cookies domain and/or delele all of them

also check error_log just in case

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Not communicating to the license server isn't the problem...

Do you have mod_sec or suhosin installed on your localhost for some reason? You really wouldn't need them if you're not making it web accessible.

Thank you kindly, Aiwa.

The answer is no, neither, however. It can't ne this in that case - 1 thing less to check.

Warm regards, Wim

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check cookies domain and/or delele all of them

also check error_log just in case

Thank you, Luis. I'll look at them, just busy upgrading the main machine, once that's done I'll check those.

Warm regards, Wim

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Having had some hard disk troubles (a separate one to he root drive or the drive on which I run the board, where I store mail files and documents), I only had time to report back today,

The cause of the problems is still not found, nothing in the error log except for a few index entries in the tasks table, which I fixed manually - automatic fixes didn't work for this. Cookies are not stored anywhere specific either, all deleted.

There are a few more database fixes I could (and will) do, let's see if that sorts it out, like using the same character set for all, and conversion of a few InnoDB tables to MyISAM tables, but somehow I don't expect this to have the required effect. It is just a bit of spring cleaning, really.

If anybody here has another idea or two, I would gladly hear them.

Thank you very much in advance!

Warm regards, Wim