When you say "ES menu" I assume you mean the one built into the ES component rather than the actual menu item that ES offers to logout? Does ES's loging module allow you to logout? The reason I ask is to make sure if it's the menu itself or if it's an actual log out issue. PS, I'm not part of the stacked staff.

Hello Leslie,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. It's most likely that you have configured EasySocial to redirect the user to a specific menu item that requires the user to be logged in. Hence, it goes into a redirection loop because the system plugin of EasySocial tries to redirect the user to use EasySocial's login.

You can fix this by either:

1. Configuring EasySocial so that when the user logs out, gets redirected to a menu that is accessible by public. You can change this settings in the Settings > Users page.

2. Turn off the System - EasySocial plugin. However, this means that Joomla will be redirect the user to it's own user login page (com_users)

I got it worked out and here is what I'd like to share with the community.
If you are running php5.4 or higher and have the "captcha" enabled in the main control panel... disable it! i have found this only after reading up on the captcha that Joomla 3.3 has. I don't understand what conflicts with ES but it somehow does. If you lower your php to 5.3, 5.2 it works just fine!

TY

Weird, I tried this with PHP 5.4.24 with captcha enabled from Joomla and the logout worked just fine (both menu item and the component logout). I do admit that I was using an invalid key code considering that I didn't feel like signing up.

Good to hear you found the scenario that breaks the login.

Hmmm.. Yup just tried it again and it just times out and never re-directs... as soon as I turn off recaptcha and use php5.3 it's fine! I tried this on 3 different control panels and still notice the issue.

Hm, as far as I am aware, the captcha plugin only checks against your captcha codes when a user logs in. It shouldn't interfere with the logging out.

Hi mark, yes that's what I figured but something in the code or in the J3x framework must be causing this. If I change to php5.4, 5.5 and enable captcha it completely direct the page in a way that it will never complete. Frustrating so I am keeping it a php 5.3 until I can understand this better.

Thanks for the heads up on this Leslie, will keep an eye on this.