Stopped working on Localhost

Hi,

Do you have a caching plugin or similar installed?

Thanks
Phil

Nothing of the kind. I never use those on local sites. I rarely use them on live sites, actually.

Hmmm, that’s an odd one then, not come across it before. Can you (if you’re not already) enable debug mode and check there’s no PHP errors – not that there should be as it’s developed with that enabled.

Can you also check it with the yes/no and drop down options to see if it still happens there? And if you can let me know any plugins/themes you’re using I can have a look at debugging it.

Cheers
Phil

In an attempt to maybe fix the problem with my local version of the site, I just upgraded to WordPress 8 from version 7.5 but it has not fixed anything.

The live version still works and is still running WP 7.5

Both local and live sites are running Version 1.3.5 of the Age Gate plugin.

Debug mode was already set to true:

define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);

There are no errors. It just reloads the page as if nothing happened.

I don’t know what this means:

Can you also check it with the yes/no and drop down options to see if it still happens there?

There are no yes/no or dropdown options in the Age Gate settings.

I will turn off all my other plugins and see what happens.

OK, it should work on both with no issue – it’s good on my localhost (not helpful, I know!) running under a Vagrant VM.

Stupid question but cookies aren’t disabled on localhost? Is it happening in all browsers or just a specific one? After you enter the date of birth are you able to view the cookie information from something like developer toolbar?

Thanks
Phil

I don’t know what this means:

Can you also check it with the yes/no and drop down options to see if it still happens there?

It’s the option call “Validate age using”, gives you a choice of input fields, dropdown or a simple Yes/no button option.

Thanks
Phil

Something odd is when I delete your plugin and then reinstall it, it has all the same settings saved from when I had it installed previously. So, it seems like it is not really deleting itself from the database. I don’t have any cache plugins to keep those settings and I always do a force-refresh to empty browser cache.

It looks like the uninstall function isn’t being called so I’ll have to look into that.

Shouldn’t be what’s affecting you though. Have you tried different browsers etc as above?

Hi Phil,

I just want to point out that this WAS working locally last week or I would have never used the plugin for the live site. I tested out 3 or 4 plugins and just when I found this one I thought, “this is awesome! This does exactly what I wanted!”

Here are my results:

1. Yes / No option does not work on local, but they work on live

2. Dropdown option does not work on local, but it works on live

3. Deactivating all my other plugins did not work

4. Browsers:

Chrome browser – doesn’t work on local site, works on live site.

Opera browser – same

Firefox – same

5. BONUS: I installed a new website running WordPress 4.8 running Twenty Seventeen theme with no other plugins (just a clean default WP install). It did not work in any browser…same as above.

6. BONUS 2: I set up a redirect URL for failed attempts (google.com) and it did not redirect, either. Same with all browsers tested above. Firefox and Opera have no extensions on my machine, so it is not an extension interference.

I also just tried it with a Bitnami installer version of WordPress instead of a MAMP version. That doesn’t work on localhost, either

No idea what happened.

This is some real mysterious stuff here.

I’d be tempted to think it was a browser extension except for the fact that Firefox has zero add-ons (extensions) activated. Cookies are on the default settings of “recommended” everywhere.

This does seem pretty strange, especially as it’s working on live.

Theres a couple of potential causes I think;

1. the post isn’t happening properly – not sure why this would happen

or

2. The session isn’t being set, which could be a config issue you can check this with the chrome/FF web developer add-on under cookies > view cookie info. You should see a PHPSESSID. The extension is available here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-developer/bfbameneiokkgbdmiekhjnmfkcnldhhm

Screenshot can be seen here too if you need it https://imgur.com/a/qoUAC

I’m going to give it a try on MAMP and see if I can reproduce it. If you want you can zip the clean installed version and put it on dropbox or something and I’ll see if it works on my local, at least that way we can see if it’s across both environments – though it really sounds like a localhost issue as it’s working on live. It’d be good to get to the bottom of it though.

I’m hoping to release 1.4.0 in the next couple of days that gives the option of a JavaScript version of the age gate for use with cached sites, so that may be a viable solution for you to try too. I’ve just got to finish the code and test it with a load of different caching options.

Hey, I installed the web developer extension and it looks like PHPSESSID is set:

Name PHPSESSID
Value 9264445cfe2029e9bd68efee134207a2
Host localhost
Path /
Expires At end of session
Secure No
HttpOnly No

^ I deleted the cookie and saw the number go down from 24 to 23 cookies. Then, I re-entered my birdthday and viewed cookies again and it went back up to 24 cookies. So, it appears to be setting cookies fine.