Re: [Phpwiki-talk] http authentication weirdness

[Carsten K. <car...@ma...>]

It's a problem on the http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/ server.

It used to happen on my own server before today, but is fine now. I had 
been playing with /tmp permissions so that's probably what it was.

Carsten

On Friday, December 7, 2001, at 08:42  pm, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> 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.