admin authentification failure

[Schtroumpf]

Hello,
I'm using a web hosting service for my website. I have installed phpwiki but I have a problem. Every time I try to login with admin.php page my login is refused.
Any Idea ?
thx in advance for your answer

[Reini Urban]

set register_globals on in your .htaccess or
use another workaround:
(untested)

add this to the top of your lib/config.php:

if (!ini_get('register_globals'))
import_request_variables('gp');

[Russell]

Workaround didn't work for me :(

[alex]

On my admin.php page i got message: "Set the administrator account and password first."

I searched though "readme" and "install" files, but found nothing about setting admin account. Could you please describe briefly what should I do or give me appropriate source on information?

Thank you

[Reini Urban]

Open admin.php in an editor and give the needed admin name and password.
$wikiadmin = ...
$adminpasswd ...

Be sure to check lib/config.php also for more settings.

[Paul Freet]

I am using PHPWiki 1.2.9 with MySQL and this is a new install. It is working fine except for administration. I cannot authenticate an admin user. I entered an admin user and password into admin.php. It is not accepting that user/pass combination.

I could be wrong, but does this script require Register Globals - On to work? That would be bad. Most people will not run PHP with Register Globals on for security reasons.

Is there something else that might be required that I have missed?

Paul

[qwerty2]

I had the same problem with my first install. Configurator.php was not accepting name/pwd stored in config.ini.

Solution: My pwd was too short. Making it longer helped for me.

[HurricaneDavid]

I had the same problem. I did not know what to put in the windows-looking prompts.

So I just went into admin.php and commented out the code that authenticates the user.

  if (($PHP_AUTH_USER != $wikiadmin  )  ||
      ($PHP_AUTH_PW   != $adminpasswd)) {
     Header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"PhpWiki\"");
     Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
     echo gettext("You entered an invalid login or password.");
     exit;
  }

The above is what you can put comments around to make it work. This is insecure of course. But when all else fails you can do it.

I changed the comments to an if statement so that it would be easier to control, though. I may add in my own authentication later.