Sign in not remembering me from page to page

I'm having the same problem and it's driving me crazy! I sign in as the administrator and have to sign in again every time I move to another page!

Elisa is it your only blog on the install or do you have multiple blogs?

Just the one blog on MT, but it is a subdomain with other blogs on WP under the same root.

Looks like there is something wrong with your JavaScript missing, which means that the cookie is not being set.

// The cookie name to use for storing the blog-side comment session cookie.
var mtCookieName = "mt_blog10_user";
var mtCookieDomain = ".";
var mtCookiePath = "";
var mtCookieTimeout = 14400;

should be something like this

// The cookie name to use for storing the blog-side comment session cookie.
var mtCookieName = "mt_blog10_user";
var mtCookieDomain = "www.florencewinemerchants.com";
var mtCookiePath = "\";
var mtCookieTimeout = 14400;

Hmm - thanks Rob. I understand (I think) what you are saying - but I am not getting anywhere with it... this is a fresh install and I really have not done much to the templates - I didn't touch anything in the headers or javascript...
So it sounds like the cookie is not being set properly - but I don't really understand what part(s) I am missing...
I refreshed my js templates - no change...
Darn - I am stumped.

Aha - so - the mt.js does contain the correct info -

var mtCookieName = "mt_blog10_user";
var mtCookieDomain = "www.florencewinemerchants.com";
var mtCookiePath = "\";
var mtCookieTimeout = 14400;

but the page is not picking it up obviously. I am thinking something has gone wrong ala what Tim Appnel is talking about here: http://appnel.com/code/log/2007/09/customizing-mt4-comment-forms - mainly:

"Be sure to keep the same HTML/CSS ids. The JavaScript library MT generated for each blog powers the display of the comment form and remembering a users info. I'm not going to list them all here because there are quite a few. The default comment form markup can be found in the file named comment_form.mtml in the mt4/default_templates directory."

I also don't understand why when viewing source their is so much to see above the body tag on the florenewinemerchants.com home page, but so little on iBizDaily.com -

Got it - I think. I added some javascript to grab the mt:UserSessionState right after the open head tag in the header template. Sorry can't show the code here since the link above about sharing code doesn't work...

What have you done?

I am seeing a lot of extra JavaScript (ranking code ) than a 100% clean copy of the pro template (view source on http://www.movabledemo.com/blogs/pro/)

Rob as to that code - no idea. I did get it working though :)
Your link above is broken BTW -

Oops it added the ) as part of the link.

Yes it is being set in the mt.js and reset on the page. Glad it is working now.

elisa you can see the code I used here:

http://www.ibizdaily.com/code-html-xml-css-etc/troubleshooting-session-states-in-movable-type-4.html

afinta, I picked up the code from the page you linked but I'm apparently not inserting it correctly. Here's where I put it:

 <div id="header">    <div id="header-inner">        <div id="header-content"><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ var user = <$mt:UserSessionState$>; /* ]]> */ </script><mt:Ignore><!-- Use h1 and h2 html tags on the main index of the blog as the title, use divs on all other pages where there are page titles. --></mt:Ignore><mt:If name="main_index">            <h1 id="header-name"><a href="<$mt:BlogURL$>" accesskey="1"><$mt:BlogName encode_html="1"$></a></h1>            <h2 id="header-description"><$mt:BlogDescription$></h2><mt:Else>            <div id="header-name"><a href="<$mt:BlogURL$>" accesskey="1"><$mt:BlogName encode_html="1"$></a></div>            <div id="header-description"><$mt:BlogDescription$></div></mt:If>        </div>    </div></div

Am I even in the right module? I'm really really new at this...

Since that code isn't showing up for me, here it is again:

 <div id="header">    <div id="header-inner">        <div id="header-content"><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ var user = <$mt:UserSessionState$>; /* ]]> */ </script><mt:Ignore><!-- Use h1 and h2 html tags on the main index of the blog as the title, use divs on all other pages where there are page titles. --></mt:Ignore><mt:If name="main_index">            <h1 id="header-name"><a href="<$mt:BlogURL$>" accesskey="1"><$mt:BlogName encode_html="1"$></a></h1>            <h2 id="header-description"><$mt:BlogDescription$></h2><mt:Else>            <div id="header-name"><a href="<$mt:BlogURL$>" accesskey="1"><$mt:BlogName encode_html="1"$></a></div>            <div id="header-description"><$mt:BlogDescription$></div></mt:If>        </div>    </div></div

No - I don't think you are. You want to be in Design, Templates, Template Modules, Header -

In that template - the Header template - you want to put that code after the open head tag, before the meta tags, etc.

It looks like yours is much further down the page, in the body itself.

Okay, I found the right template but it's still not working. Here's where I put it:

 <mt:If tag="BlogTemplateSetID" eq="mt-community-forum"><$mt:Var name="page_layout" value="layout-wm"$></mt:If><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<$mt:BlogLanguage$>" lang="<$mt:BlogLanguage$>" id="sixapart-standard"><head><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ var user = <$mt:UserSessionState$>; /* ]]> */ </script>    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<$mt:PublishCharset$>" />    <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />    <meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" />    <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />        <title><$mt:Var name="title"$></title>    <meta name="generator" content="<$mt:ProductName version="1"$>" />

elisa can you post a URL? I think one issue is that it looks like you are running the community-forum version and I am using the professional website.

Sorry for my long absence. http://www.weightnomore.wiifu.me

So it turns out my fix was not properly working... I am back to where I was - logging in works, but when moving from page to page it appears you are not logged in, yet if you attempt to comment, when you click log in, you don't actually have to - the system is remembering me but just not showing it is from page to page... very frustrated here as I don't think I did much at all to these templates to have that acting so strange... or maybe it is just my Mac - I don't know.

the simple answer is usually the correct one...

It's all in the preferences!