Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Admin authorisation problem

[Phil C. <ph...@ph...>]

Phil Cole inscribed the following text on 26/11/2006 15:25:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed PHP Wiki version 1.2.10 (the version that the 
> control panel on my hosting package gave me).
>
> It's working fine, but I'm finding I can't get to the admin pages...  
> Clicking on the link to http://mywiki/admin.php brings up a Login box, 
> but even if I put in the correct admin user and password details, it 
> returns me back to that box.
>
> I've done a little digging and investigation, and it seems that the 
> PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW variables aren't available.  This is 
> probably related to registerglobals being off in the PHP installation... 
> but the ones that should replace those, $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] and 
> $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'], aren't available either. 
>
> I've asked my site's admins to look into it, but anyone here have any 
> ideas what I should ask them to look for?
>
>   

Bad form as it is to reply to one's own posts...  The problem boils down 
to my host running PHP as a CGI service rather than as an Apache Module.

Don't have a fix/work around though...

Phil