Upgrade from 2.1.3 to 2.2 causes 404 errors for some logged in users

[mmaunder]

This is going to be a tough one to repro, but...

After upgrading to 2.2 I got reports from certain users that they were seeing our page not found on all forum pages under the /forums/ URL including the base URL itself.

I logged in and tested it with my admin account and did not see it.

I created a normal user account and also could not repro.

I then signed in as that specific user and got a repro.

I then checked the network activity in Chrome and noticed that the site was sending a 200 HTTP code but serving up the standard 404 page. Which explains why I wasn't seeing any 404's in my web server error log.

Note that our forums are accessed via HTTPS so this may help you repro.

I downgraded to 2.1.3 and instantly the issue was fixed.

I haven't noticed any heuristic with the user account that I managed to repro on. I even checked the cookie string to see if there was something odd about that users cookies, but didn't notice anything.

I have noticed several other users complaining about 404's with 2.2 in the forums.

[alexvorn2]

did you tried to update the permalinks?

[johnjamesjacoby]

It's related to the users role. You're probably using a Membership plugin to modify existing user role capabilities. Let's keep this in the support forums until we actually know what, if any, bug this represents.