Re: [MRBS-general] Authentication Problems

[Matthew P. <md...@yo...>]

Hi Gavin,

Thank you very much for your quick reply.
The problem was with the session.save_path, it was writing to a tmp 
directory that did not exist.
Have changed the php.ini file and everything is fine now.

Thanks again

Matt

Gavin Walker wrote:

> Matt
> 
> See comments below.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gavin
> 
> MDJ Paradis <md...@yo...> wrote on 21.06.2004, 12:54:22:
> 
>>I have recently downloaded and installed MRBS (1.2-pre3) on a windows xp 
>>machine running Apache 2.0.47, PHP-4.3.3 and mysql 4.0.15.
>>
>>I am using the php/config method for authentication (out of the box set up) 
>>but the system does not allow me to log in as any of the users or 
>>administrator.
> 
> 
> Can you please try setting $auth["session"] = "cookie"?  You will
> need to enable cookie's in your browser if you have disabled them.
> Hopefully this will get you started with your eval..
> 
> The next thing to do is to see if there is a problem with php
> sessions.
> 
> Create a web page with the contents '<?php phpinfo() ?>' (omit the ')
> and then load it in a web browser.  Once the page is displayed search
> for "session.save_path" and ensure that this directory exists on your
> system and the apache server has sufficient rights to write to this
> location.
> 
> Let me know how this goes - there may be an issue with php sessions on
> Windows.
> 
> 
>>If I set the session setting to http the I CAN log on as the administrator 
>>but cannot log out or access the log in button for normal users.
> 
> 
> This is correct behaviour as http Basic Authentication has no logout
> mechanism.  This is not related to MRBS but to the web server/browser.
> To logout you will need to close all of your browser windows and then
> when you try to access MRBS again you will be prompted for your
> password.  At this point you can log in as a different user.
> 
> 
> 
>>One note...not sure if this makes a difference but I have disabled unicode 
>>support in the mbrs config file.
> 
> 
> Should make no difference.

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matthew paradis
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