That's good to know, I appreciate the input. Both fixes were like "miracle drugs" for our site, but I suppose maybe not for all. I did, however, run into the issue with the admin panel using the www and was told no-no-no, BUT have also been told that in certain cases, depending on the host, you might have to. I don't understand all of it, so I try not to get in too terribly deep - especially w/o access to the actual files and all that stuff. I'm too new yet.Jagabot wrote: This started occurring after a recent Apache security hot-fix. (No idea which one, I don't admin my servers that's what the trained chimpanzees are for.)
For my sites to work in the back end I MUST use http://www.domain.com/administrator and not domain.com/administrator
It's a pain in the ass if/when you don't notice that you've forgotten the WWW
What I did so I don't run into this again on the two servers I've noticed this occurring was: for each account on the server where I'm using Joomla I added a redirect in each site's .htaccess to redirect domain.com to http://www.domain.com
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
tip: http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.phpCode: Select all
Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
The two fixes mentioned in this thread don't seem to apply to me at all (I'm using 1.0.13 from a few months ago). But I figured I'd share this in case it helps even one other frustrated person out there.
I worked hard installing CB, integrating my phpbb2 forum with my joomla site, and getting virtuemart to work. After Virtuemart was installed, I started getting kicked from the backend, so I used fix.php. 
probably should just put up with the logout issue.
