Re: [Phpwiki-talk] http authentication weirdness

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 19:46:40 -0500
"Carsten Klapp" <car...@ma...> wrote:

> For some reason I can't ever seem to stay logged in as the
administrator, 
> or even as a regular "bogus" user. After editing one page, the next page
I 
> edit says I will be logged as [my ip address]. I have to click back and 
> Sign in, then edit all over again.

Where (what wiki) is this?

The authentication mechanism relies on PHP4's session support.
Data for each session gets saved in its own file somewhere on the httpd
server.
By default the session state files get put in /tmp.
The SourceForge project web server is load-shared accross multiple http
servers,
each with their own /tmp --- so saving session data in /tmp is no good ---
you
must configure php so that it saves session is some place that's
accessible by
all the servers.

There's some notes in index.php about this.  Look for session.save_path.

Guests for dinner.  Gotta go.  Let me know if this doesn't help.