When I click log out on one user it does nothing, and other weirdness

IHPAcademy

The issue

I have one browser where I am logged in with a user I'll call testuser. When I click logout in that browser, nothing happens. If I hit refresh, it still shows logged in, if I try clicking logout again, nothing. If I open a new browser window in incognito mode to get new cookies, everything works fine there. I could just delete all cookies in the one browser, but I'd like to understand the root cause and fix it. Partly because...
I also have another employee who when he refreshes, the page doesn't show the latest discussions, but if he shift-refreshes, it will then show the latest. If he then refreshes again without holding down shift, it once again doesn't display the latest. He can go back and forth like that. Presumably using a local cache that isn't updating when he doesn't shift-click refresh.

I'm hoping all of this may be related to a third issue I've seen, that is when I've tried to run:
php flarum cache:clear
I get the error:
Could not clear contents of `storage/cache`. Please adjust file permissions and try again. This can frequently be fixed by clearing cache via the `Tools` dropdown on the Administration Dashboard page.
The tools dropdown doesn't work either -- if I run this command:
sudo chmod -R 775 .
Then I can run the cache clear (but this doesn't fix my logout not working issue), and the next time I try again awhile later, it has the same permissions issue -- so perhaps my configuration at the linux user / filesystem level is wrong in some fashion?

Thanks much for any help 🙂
Kem

Flarum information

[2024-05-13 22:59:41] flarum.ERROR: Firebase config invalid

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PHP version: 8.3.6
MySQL version: 10.11.7-MariaDB-2ubuntu2
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clarkwinkelmann

IHPAcademy which folder did you chmod ? The sessions are stored in the storage/sessions folder, which just like storage/cache, should ideally belong to the shell user the webserver runs as.

IHPAcademy

clarkwinkelmann
I chmod'd the parent folder of storage, and everything is owned by www-data, with a group of www-data, which is the user that the nginx worker processes are running as

luceos

IHPAcademy make sure to chmod recursively, so chmod -R www-data: storage

onlyanegg

luceos yep that’s what I did. A couple files were owned by my login username before the chmod - but I’m not sure how that happens. after doing the chmod, some keep ending up that way occasionally it appears. ( the chmod keeps being needed in order to clear the cache anyway - I will figure out what files are owned by a different user again next time it happens )

IHPAcademy

So there is only one file owned by a user other than www-data -- the file is storage/cache/ee/2f/ee2f842aa7bb1f53edf3a2ed2c09a1807ffa6c90

the contents are:
9999999999i:1715685391;

I'm not sure how or why something in the storage cache is getting created by my login user though -- any thoughts?

luceos

IHPAcademy this happens when you run php flarum commands as that user, like cache:clear.

IHPAcademy

luceos Thanks, that appears to make it so I don't have any permissions issues now in the folder. Didn't fix the issues I originally posted in this thread unfortunately.

luceos

IHPAcademy as that testuser can you logout in your browser while having the browser console open, it shows javascript errors; it can usually be found in one of the tabs when pressing f11.