[Solved] Login Error 500!

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I am installing this for a friend on his new VPS, after looking through the login scripts to see how login works and not being able to find a problem ... it hit me like a ton of bricks to check the server time, sure enough it was off by about 6 hours.

Changed the server time and login seems to work now, could this become a problem for people like resellers and domain users that are in different time zones than the server itself? Developers might want to investigate this.

The actual time setting should not be a factor, its the length of time, ip address and not the actual time itself that the session routine should rely on for authentication. Buts that my opinion...

The difference between client time (cookie) and server time (mysql login table) should not be a factor, what if someones computer clock is way out of wack?

You should get away from cookie authentication anyway, you can do it without cookies and it would be more secure if done properly. Many people block cookies and this would cause problems and unnecessary tech support requests for a host.