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Posted by BigKev On 2007/12/22 12:57:16

Well I woke up this morning to check on the website and I was getting nothing but a blank page, nothing what so ever.

So right away I was think Oh-now. Site's been hacked. So I went in through a back door an managed to do a error dump and found out that some related to to auto-login code was causing the issue.

Long story short, it came down to a corupt cookie on my PC that was keeping the website from loading for me. I am pretty sure it was working for others. But if anyone else experienced this problem earlier today, please let me know. I am hoping it was isolated to my browser. I did manage to get the website to load again for me, but then it was in this endless login/incorrect password loop. Once I cleared my cookie cache on my browser then it worked just fine. I guess the cookie on my PC was corrupt and this was causing havoc with the auto-login code.

So if any one experiences anything similar in the future, please try clearing your browser cookies. Just thoought I would pass that along.

On another note I am running a full website backup to my PC here just incase. When nothing was running this morning I was about 60 seconds away from running a restore on the entire website. I am glad I didnt have to do that.

Just so I can make sure the issue was related to my PC only, please if you had any issues between 9am-10am (PST) this morning, let me know.

Thanks