Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Authentication puzzles

[Massimiliano P. <ma...@gm...>]

Hi Antony,
    I am not an expert, but it seems that you edit a config file while
your phpWiki reads another one. Make sure you are editing (path to
phpWiki)/config/config.ini. Also, though it doesn't hurt, it shouldn't
be needed a complete apache restart since the config.ini file is read
at every HTTP access.
    Hope this helps.

Bye

Massimiliano Pagani
http://www.maxpagani.org/



On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Antony
Stone<Ant...@ph...> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to use PHPwiki on a Debian Etch machine and having problems with
> authentication.
>
> It's Debian Etch (which I can't upgrade to Lenny for unrelated hardware
> reasons), which gives me PHPwiki version 1.3.12p3-5etch1.
>
> I'm using Apache 1.3.34, and MySQL 5.0.32 as the backend database, and it's a
> fresh install of the phpwiki package, with only the changes noted below.
>
>
> I have two problems:
>
> 1. I want to operate this Wiki so that only authorised users can access it
> (both for reading and for writing) - it's basically a collaborative
> development tool which needs to be on the Internet to allow access for
> diversely located people, but we don't want it to be wide open and publicly
> visible or editable.  Therefore I have followed the instructions in
> config.ini to require passwords for login:
>
> ; True User Authentication:
> ; To require user passwords:
> ;   ALLOW_ANON_USER = false
> ;   ALLOW_ANON_EDIT = false
> ;   ALLOW_BOGO_LOGIN = false,
> ;   ALLOW_USER_PASSWORDS = true.
> ; Otherwise any anon or bogo user might login without any or a wrong password.
>
> I have set all four variable to the required values and restarted Apache, and
> yet it is still possible to log in with a random username and no password
> (ie: a Bogo login).  How do I get the functionality as documented - True User
> Authentication?  Do I need to reset / reconfigure / restart something else
> after changing the config.ini file?
>
>
> 2. I cannot create an Admin user and log in as such.  If I
> edit /etc/phpwiki/config.ini and set:
>
> ADMIN_USER = Admin
> ADMIN_PASSWD = Admin
>
> (and restart Apache afterwards just in case) then when I go to the URL of my
> Wiki site, I now get:
>
> Fatal Error:
> lib/IniConfig.php:601: Error: ADMIN_USER may not be empty. Please update your
> configuration.
> lib/IniConfig.php:221: Notice: missing config setting for ADMIN_USER
> (...repeated 2 times)
> lib/IniConfig.php:601: Error: ADMIN_USER may not be empty. Please update your
> configuration.
>
> So, in config.ini, I have ADMIN_USER set, therefore this error message makes
> no sense.  What should I check instead?
>
>
>
> I hope someone can help with either / both of these problems.
>
> Please let me know if further data on the setup would be helpful.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Antony Stone.
>
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