Logging in to BBS

[Geoff555]

Hello well being a pita I am affraid that the instructions from Chris, thank you, may as well be in Chinese, would someone be kind enough to explain in a simple manor what to do please.
IE: close page. clear your history, delete any links etc.
I use firefox - click on airgunbbs and I am here. that is all I know to do.
Thank you, I know I am useless so many apologies.
Cheers.
Geoff.

[RobF]

https://www.airgunbbs.com

Write that down.
Close this page, clear your history, delete any links to the BBS from your favourites/bookmarks. You DON'T need to clear cookies OR passwords.

Open a new page, type in the address you wrote down and enter (if autofill offers up ANY options you haven't deleted ALL previous links). You will need to log in again. Once in, either save this page as a favourite/bookmark or navigate to your preferred landing page and save that.
Job done.

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Chris

Doesn't work.

Browsers now make suggestions based upon your previous history even if you clear your history and cookies. So if I start typing a for airgunbbs it gets there first, drops the https and www. and throws me to the non www. airgunbbs instead, for which a cookie isn't being saved and I have to log in again.

All it needs is the htaccess file fixing, it's like day 1 stuff.

It's not like the site is https compliant anyway... there's no padlock icon.

[Josie & John]

https://www.airgunbbs.com

Write that down.
Close this page, clear your history, delete any links to the BBS from your favourites/bookmarks. You DON'T need to clear cookies OR passwords.

Open a new page, type in the address you wrote down and enter (if autofill offers up ANY options you haven't deleted ALL previous links). You will need to log in again. Once in, either save this page as a favourite/bookmark or navigate to your preferred landing page and save that.
Job done.

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Chris

Thank you Chris,

That seems to have worked for me and I'm a numpty when it comes to anything more technical than flicking a light switch.

Kind regards,

John

[Sir_SwampThing]

It's not like the site is https compliant anyway... there's no padlock icon.

Worked for me.

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Chris

[Geoff555]

Oh well just have to put up with it, cant get it to work, have to sign in each time. Get the this site is not safe etc.
Invalid url etc. and noticed that as soon as I press 'FORUM' my password is removed, yes I did click remember me.
Geoff.

[Sir_SwampThing]

Doesn't work.

Browsers now make suggestions based upon your previous history even if you clear your history and cookies. So if I start typing a for airgunbbs it gets there first, drops the https and www. and throws me to the non www. airgunbbs instead

Even if your browser is throwing up the suggestion ignore it and keep typing the https://www.airgunbbs.com address before you press enter. (You can test this by throwing in a deliberate spelling mistake and you will get a "this site can't be reached" error).

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Chris

[davederrick]

https://www.airgunbbs.com

Write that down.
Close this page, clear your history, delete any links to the BBS from your favourites/bookmarks. You DON'T need to clear cookies OR passwords.

Open a new page, type in the address you wrote down and enter (if autofill offers up ANY options you haven't deleted ALL previous links). You will need to log in again. Once in, either save this page as a favourite/bookmark or navigate to your preferred landing page and save that.
Job done.

Atb
Chris

I was getting the error, but then the penny dropped. I was using a shortcut on the New Tab in chrome, that gets added automatically based on common useage. The URL for it was http not https I changed the URL in the shortcut & BINGO!
Thanks Chris.

[RobF]

Even if your browser is throwing up the suggestion ignore it and keep typing the https://www.airgunbbs.com address before you press enter. (You can test this by throwing in a deliberate spelling mistake and you will get a "this site can't be reached" error).

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Chris

Thanks Chris.

I seemed to have fooled it with some brute force typing and now suggestions have accepted the new address.

[Sir_SwampThing]

I was getting the error, but then the penny dropped. I was using a shortcut on the New Tab in chrome, that gets added automatically based on common useage. The URL for it was http not https I changed the URL in the shortcut & BINGO!
Thanks Chris.

For folk like yourself (who are bit more tech savvy) that is the quickest way.

If it helps anyone else :-

If you are using a desktop shortcut, right click it and select edit. Then just add the s to http (or just type https://www.airgunbbs.com) and then save.
If you are using favourites or bookmarks, open the favourite/bookmark list, find the agbbs link, either right click (if using a pc) or tap the three dots (at the right of the link) and then edit the address as above.
After this you may be asked to log in again but only the first time (as long as you tick remember me).

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Chris

[ballisticboy]

Editing the bookmark if you have one seems the quickest way. Just did mine and it seems to have solved the problem. Didn't have to log in again either. I'm using Firefox.

[angrybear]

I edited mine adding the "s", sadly it's made no difference.

[Petest]

Been getting the same. I have started hitting the help tab. Look at the top once it loads, logged in is shown.
Continue browsing site as normal afterwards

[leafy]

Happened to me ,so all I did was delete the shortcut on my desk top ,then search again for the AirgunBBS using say Google search engine then created another shortcut on my desktop .Works fine now .My browser is Chrome

[Phil Russell]

As above for Leafy. Also delete any bookmarks. Then log in as normal, clicking 'remember me'. Create new shortcut and bookmark or whatever.
Cheers, Phil

PS: what I do not understand is why everyone was not affected as soon as the site address changed? I had been using the old address for access for some time before I was affected.

[Sir_SwampThing]

I edited mine adding the "s", sadly it's made no difference.

If you are using a desktop shortcut and you have added the s in the correct place, it will work.
If you have edited a browser bookmark or favourite, it will work if you navigate to that favourite/bookmark in the list.
But if you just start typing airgunbbs and allow autofill (or search suggestions) to complete the address (like you did previously) it will be taking you to the old address if you haven't already deleted all reference to the agbbs from your browser/search history.

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Chris