[Phpwiki-talk] authentication doesn't persist

[Antonio B. <an...@ve...>]

Hi, I'm having problems with authentication in phpwiki 1.3.12p2: and also
with the CVS versione at the moment I'm writing.
Navigation works, but authentication does not persist: on the first
request after a successfull authentication, all goes well and the user is
signed and authenticated. But on the following requests I am only signed
but not authenticated (even for ADMIN_USER).

I had a look at the client cookie named PhpWiki_WIKI_ID and I'm wondering
why it expires immediately instead of expiring at quit time or after a
while. I know there is:

COOKIE_EXPIRATION_DAYS = 365

into config.ini but it doesn't seem to be honored.

thanks a lot for helping

PS:
Some more details about my installation follows, if needed:

I'm using the default config.ini, just a copy of config-dist.ini, except
for the following simple differences:

# diff config.ini config-dist.ini
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< ADMIN_USER = admin
---
> ;ADMIN_USER =
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< ADMIN_PASSWD = "my encrypted password"
---
> ;ADMIN_PASSWD =
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< CACHE_CONTROL = NO_CACHE
---
> CACHE_CONTROL = LOOSE
378c378
< DATABASE_TYPE = SQL
---
> DATABASE_TYPE = dba
406c406
< DATABASE_DSN = "mysql://www:mydbpwd\1@unix(/tmp/mysql.sock)/phpwiki_CVS"
---
> DATABASE_DSN = "mysql://guest@unix(/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock)/test"

I have apache-2.2.2, Php 5.1.4 and MySQL 5.0.22. Here is what I changed
into php.ini:

# diff php.ini php.ini-recommended
314c314
< memory_limit = 16M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume
(8MB)
---
> memory_limit = 8M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume
(8MB)
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< upload_tmp_dir = /tmp
---
> ;upload_tmp_dir =
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< session.save_path = "/tmp"
---
> ;session.save_path = "/tmp"

I've also uncommented this into index.php:

//   define('VIRTUAL_PATH', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);

because otherwise I only get blank pages.