Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Admin authorisation problem

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Phil Cole schrieb:
> 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...

Use $_ENV instead of $_SERVER then. Sorry to be so short...

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