Logout Redirection Problem

Hi Alex - further to my earlier post I can confirm that the rebuild (which has nearly killed me) seems to have fixed most of the issues with the site, www.countydownspectator.com, except for this one...

On clicking the logout button on the SC Login module - which has been set to redirect to main menu/home - it does log out but raises a '404 - Component not found' error, which comes complete with a working link to the Home page ironically! Actually, even if the logout redirect is set to 'same page' it results in the same error.

As a matter of interest, I have noticed that Jomsocial also has a 'redirect on logout' setting (which only gives options to stay within its own pages strangely) that may be leading to a conflict and I have emailed those guys to ask the question and to request that they provide an alternate 'none' option in this menu.

I have also read that there may be a problem with the way j3.1 site upgrades handle menu IDs, so maybe you could consider this in your investigation?

Anyway, I think that everything is now working properly apart from this issue and would be really grateful if you could give me some sort of workaround or fix asap.

cheers, Russ

**UPDATE**

Further to the original post, I have asked my daughter to go through the registration process and she has uncovered a new example of this redirection issue. Because I was fairly sure that a new, clean 1-click registration from the Facebook on the SCLogin module would work anyway, I asked her to test a different specific routine:
1. Click the Register button on the SCLogin module (top right position on the site)
2. This opens the Jomsocial registration form, which I have set to the minimum profile requirements. She completed the form, re-captcha etc and clicked 'Next'
3. This then seems to go into a re-direction loop with the error message:
"The webpage at www.countydownspectator.com/index.php/co...=user.login&Itemid=1 has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.
Learn more about this problem.
Error code: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS"
4. Reloading the site cleared the error and showed her as not logged in.
5. She then clicked on 'Login' on the top SCLogin module, completed the username & password fields in the modal popup and clicked 'Log in'. This did log her in to the site and added the 'connect your account to Facebook' button in the top module. (Hooray!)
6. She clicked on this to connect Facebook, which went through the authorisation process and the modal login - but didn't add the profile info, avatar etc to her Jomsocial profile! (???)
7. She clicked 'log out' in the top module and, again, the process seems to have been hijacked by the setting in Jomsocial which redirected her to the JS Home page - which of course doesn't work because by this time you're logged out - instead of the intended log out redirection of the main Home page, as per the settings in the SCLogin module. A further site reload required...
8. Next, she clicked on the 'log in' button on the top module and this time selected the big login with Facebook option. The routine went as expected and her JS profile did now include info, avatar etc from FB.
9. Finally then she clicked on the 'log out' button in the top SCLogin module and was taken to the same 404 component error as per the original post in this thread.... (sigh)

That's as forensic a description of the process as I can explain it mate but you maybe want to go through something similar yourself. On one hand I really need to get this site working very soon now so any sort of fix or work around would be very welcome. However, it seems that there is some sort of conflict between the latest versions of JFBC & JS, specifically with regard to what happens on login & logout, and maybe something else with the way j3.1.5 site that has been upgraded from j3.1.0 handles menu item IDs, and I guess you will want to get a proper understanding of that.

If you want admin access Alex just register on the site (to test the process if nothing else...) and I'll make you a super admin/

One final comment - it strikes me that JS is a great membership & activities component and JFBC is an essential add-on to connect Facebook users, harvest the profiles etc, but what might be even better if JFBC, if installed, just took over the whole of the registration process, forms, account management etc from JS, leaving it to just provide the networking functions. What do you reckon, world domination eh?

Cheers man, hope to hear from you asap.

Russ

Plugins! Bloody plugins! Hundreds of the wee monkeys and every one of them wanting to handle users & Re-captcha - all of them differently and all at the same time!

Anyway, taking your advice I turned everything off (think; Joomla, Jomsocial, K2, Easyblog, Easydiscuss, Komento etc etc) and then back on one by one (and then often back off again) until the login/logout process seems to be behaving and the only redirects that are still active are those per the settings in the SCLogin module and are actually pointing to the right pages etc. It was a bit like that scene in Apollo 13, really!

By all means have a look and a play with the registration if you want, and ping me for superuser access if there's anything you want to check, but I think it's cool for now. However I reserve the right to come back and bug you some more some other time Alex mate but until then - and God only knows what nonsense I'll think up next - I think I can leave you alone for a bit. :=D

Many thanks again for the cracking service. In years to come they'll write about this site, I tell ya...!

Russ