Re: [Phpwiki-talk] ADMIN losses authentication

[Detlev D. <dr...@un...>]

jshawqwinc <jim.shaw@qu...> - 2007-12-09 22:04 wrote:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>>
>> umfan866 schrieb:
>>> Reini--
>>>
>>> That makes perfect sense. Because for PHP I am using the pre-compiled
>>> binaries for Oracle which is a build of php-5.1.6
>>> http://www.zend.com/products/zend_core/zend_core_for_oracle
>>>
>>> Thanks for working on it!
>>
>> I found several other people having the same problem with 5.1.6
>> Most suggest that php.ini
>> default_charset = "iso-8859-1"
>> will help. not for me.
>>
>> php session handling is just very complicated in 5.1.6
>> see http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16263
>> and [Session] in php.ini:
>>
>> session.save_path = "0;777;f:/prog/php/phpwiki-dev/db/516"
>>
>> ; Instead of storing all the session files in
>> ; /path, what this will do is use subdirectories N-levels deep, and
>> ; store the session data in those directories. This is useful if you
>> ; or your OS have problems with lots of files in one directory, and is
>> ; a more efficient layout for servers that handle lots of sessions.
>> ;
>> ; NOTE 1: PHP will not create this directory structure automatically.
>> ; You can use the script in the ext/session dir for that
>> ; purpose.
>>
>> Argh! So you cannot just say 1;777;
>> You have to create the subtree manually beforehand.
>> For me the session files are locked most of the time, even if the apache
>> process is killed.
>>
> 
> Hi. I am having a similar problem. It seems that I'm losing authentication
> as soon as the next click. So for instance, I log in and see the message
> "Authenticated as..." but as soon as I click another link it goes right back
> to "You must log in first". I thought it might be the 5.1.6 (which I'm
> using) session bug.
> 
> But I've check out my php session directory (/var/lib/php/session) and
> examined the session file contents before and after losing
> authentication...the session file is being reused and modified. And the
> problem happens with any user/browser/system.
> 
> So, is this the same issue, or another thing? I've poked around for days
> and I can't make it work.
> 
> Thanks for any insight you can provide.
> Jim

Same problems here.

I recently upgraded our server to SuSE Linux 10.3 an I'm now experiencing
the same problem.
  Apache/2.2.4 (Linux/SUSE) mod_ssl/2.2.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8e PHP/5.2.5
  phpwiki-1.3.14
To me it looks as if the session management looses the relation to
the session. It also gets confused on how is logged in after 'sign out'.

I tried to log what gets written in Request::finish(), but calling var_export()
causes an abort due to some infinite recursion -- maybe that's the problem ?

I'm using dba/db4 to store page and session data. I used dba/gdbm before,
but gdbm is no longer compiled in in the SuSE RPMs. I compiled my own
dba.so from the source packages with gdbm enabled. But no change either.

I also tried the old instance based on phpwiki-1.3.11 -- no luck.
Maybe its a PHP5 problem?

Please help -- we heavily rely on our wiki, but it is down for weeks now.

  Detlev
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