Sawmill Creek website

[Adam Augustine]

Has anyone had touble logging on to the Sawmill Creek website? Every time I try to log on, no matter how careful I am with the password there's an issue. Then I have to waste time restting the password.

[Rob Sack]

When I log on, my name shows but the password is missing. When I click on the password box + log in, I get an "Invalid Redirect" window. I contacted Forum Tech Support and they said it must be my computer. However, if I initially log on and go straight the the "Forum" box, I'm in with no problem. Sounds like a Sawmill Creek problem, not my computer's problem.

[Lee Schierer]

It would help to know the type of device you are using as well as the operating system and browser. I use four different devices and I have not had the proble you have described.

As a first step, delete all the cookies for sawmillcreek.org. do this while signed out of the forum. Then restart you computer and log in with the correct password and user name.

[Rich Engelhardt]

I had trouble reaching the site for a couple of hours this morning.
I just chalked it up to some updating or something being done to the servers.

Having spent 20 years in IT, I know how those 5 min updates that turn into a couple hours of servers being down go.

[Michael Burnside]

No problems, but this isn't the proper sub-forum. I recommend posting in the "Forum Tech Support" sub-forum where you might get better assistance.

[Jackie Outten]

Has anyone had touble logging on to the Sawmill Creek website? Every time I try to log on, no matter how careful I am with the password there's an issue. Then I have to waste time restting the password.

Our network provider was down for several hours this morning. We were back up around 11:40 am.

[Alan Rutherford]

When I log on, my name shows but the password is missing. When I click on the password box + log in, I get an "Invalid Redirect" window. I contacted Forum Tech Support and they said it must be my computer. However, if I initially log on and go straight the the "Forum" box, I'm in with no problem. Sounds like a Sawmill Creek problem, not my computer's problem.

I use KeepPassXC password manager and I always see this behavior if I'm trying to log in from https://www.sawmillcreek.org/forum.php. If I go to any sub-forum I can log in successfully. It's a quirk I can live with, but I find it interesting that I get an error message and not something specifically related to logging in, like "Bad password".

[Lee Schierer]

I noticed that the link you posted isn't quite formatted the way that I use to access the Creek. Try this link instead, https://sawmillcreek.org//forum.php

[Steve Wurster]

I use KeepPassXC password manager and I always see this behavior if I'm trying to log in from https://www.sawmillcreek.org/forum.php. If I go to any sub-forum I can log in successfully. It's a quirk I can live with, but I find it interesting that I get an error message and not something specifically related to logging in, like "Bad password".

That's because your cookies are saved under "https://sawmillcreek.org", which is what the site actually uses for its sub-forums. Note the lack of "www" at the beginning of the website name. What the admins here should do is add a redirect (either at their web server via probably an .htaccess file, or via their provider) and make it so that anyone going to "www.sawmillcreek.org" will get automatically shifted over to "sawmillcreek.org".

[Alan Rutherford]

After logging in or failing to a bunch of times I find that it's the "www." in my bookmark causing the problem. The password manager, cookies, "http" vs "https" and the single or double "/" don't matter.

Lee, I'm not familiar with "//" in a URL except right after the ":". Maybe that was a typo. Turns out it doesn't matter. "///" and "////////" work equally as well. I was not able to learn anything asking Google about // in a url. Could not find a way to do that and not have the replies refer to something else.

Interesting exercise. Thanks for helping me solve a small but constant annoyance. I hope it helps the OP.

[Steve Wurster]

After logging in or failing to a bunch of times I find that it's the "www." in my bookmark causing the problem. The password manager, cookies, "http" vs "https" and the single or double "/" don't matter.

Lee, I'm not familiar with "//" in a URL. Maybe that was a typo. Turns out it doesn't matter. "///" and "////////" work equally as well. I was not able to learn anything asking Google about // in a url. Could not find a way to do that and not have the replies refer to something else.

Interesting exercise. Thanks for helping me solve a small but constant annoyance. I hope it helps the OP.

The two forward slashes (//) near the beginning are required. The ones later on (e.g. sawmillcreek.org//forum.php) are, in this case, superfluous, and only one is required there. You can enter a whole bunch of them in that spot and the system will end up treating it as just one slash.

If you really want to know more about URLs you can start here, even though this link is about a larger-in-scope concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier From there you can then read the RFCs if you're really into that stuff.

[Alan Rutherford]

I edited my reply to Lee to make it clear which "//" I was referring to. I appreciate the suggestion but I really don't want to know more about URL's. Been there, done that, now it's someone else's turn.