I’m trying to login through http://mysite.com/users/admin-login. so my discourse app sends me an email including a login link, so I click the link and am redirected to the page that has a “finish login” button. I click the button, and it says email login link is too old what’s wrong with it? I’m positive that the link is not old at all. FYI, “SiteSettings.force_https = false” has been set. Thanks in advance.

Is your server clock correct? By that I mean the server that Discourse is running on. If the server clock is wrong, it could cause this behavior.

Of course, the time is correct.

[image] Lona_Lee: FYI, “SiteSettings.force_https = false” has been set. Thanks in advance. That’s likely a mistake, as there are few reasons to do this, but it’s unrelated to this issue. The only time that I have seen this error is when the system clock on the server is off by even a few minutes. I recommend that you again check the time and date very carefully.

Their example url above specifies HTTP, so I’m hoping they aren’t actually using HTTPS, even if the encapsulation happens on another device/proxy. Edit: In this topic you talked about running a fork, are you still doing that @Lona_Lee?

I wanted to add a possible solution to this, for anyone searching in future. A couple of my users were having the ‘login link too old’ issue after a recent migration from different forum software to Discourse. The issue was uppercase letters in their email addresses. Discourse really, really doesn’t like them. A quick SET email = LOWER(email) query solved the problem instantly.

Email login link is too old

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Lona_Lee (Lona Lee) March 30, 2020, 3:44am 3

Yes. it’s correct, UTC.
Anything else I have to check?

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