Hi,
I have installed MediaWiki 1.1.0 on a Windows 2000 machine. Everything works well except for logins. After I login, I get the "login successful" message. Anytime I click to another page, the page still shows my IP address, and when I edit a page, the revision is associated with my IP address.
I have tried both IE 6.0 and Mozilla 1.3.1.
By checking the the "Remember my password across sessions" upon login I can force logins to stick across pages.
I have verified that the following three cookies are set for my site: -PHPSESSID -wikidbUserID -wikidbUserName
Is there an extra configuration step I have missed?
Thanks for your help! -Amy
This is an ongoing problem on most new installations that I have had experience with. Basically you need to tell folks to keep trying.
Fred
From: A Chan chanamy1@sbcglobal.net Reply-To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:13:07 -0800 (PST) To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.1.0: Login Doesn't Stick
Hi,
I have installed MediaWiki 1.1.0 on a Windows 2000 machine. Everything works well except for logins. After I login, I get the "login successful" message. Anytime I click to another page, the page still shows my IP address, and when I edit a page, the revision is associated with my IP address.
I have tried both IE 6.0 and Mozilla 1.3.1.
By checking the the "Remember my password across sessions" upon login I can force logins to stick across pages.
I have verified that the following three cookies are set for my site: -PHPSESSID -wikidbUserID -wikidbUserName
Is there an extra configuration step I have missed?
Thanks for your help! -Amy
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I have installed MediaWiki 1.1.0 on a Windows 2000 machine. Everything works well except for logins. After I login, I get the "login successful" message. Anytime I click to another page, the page still shows my IP address, and when I edit a page, the revision is associated with my IP address.
Have you enabled the file cache ($wgUseFileCache) or database messages ($wgUseDatabaseMessages)? I had the same problem with logins yesterday but it seems to have gone away after I disabled them.
Regards,
Erik
Hi Folks,
Thanks for the advice so far on my login problem.
Fred Bauder wrote:
This is an ongoing problem on most new installations
that I have had
experience with. Basically you need to tell folks to
keep trying.
Does this mean that eventually the problem goes away, or is it intermittent? Would it be worthwhile to try rolling back to the previous version mediawiki-20031118?
Erik Moeller wrote:
Have you enabled the file cache ($wgUseFileCache) or
database messages
($wgUseDatabaseMessages)? I had the same problem with
logins yesterday but
it seems to have gone away after I disabled them.
Neither of these is enabled in my environment. Would have been nice to have an easy fix, though! :-)
-Amy
--- A Chan chanamy1@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hi,
I have installed MediaWiki 1.1.0 on a Windows 2000 machine. Everything works well except for logins. After I login, I get the "login successful" message.
Anytime I click to another page, the page still shows my IP address, and when I edit a page, the revision is associated with my IP address.
I have tried both IE 6.0 and Mozilla 1.3.1.
By checking the the "Remember my password across sessions" upon login I can force logins to stick across pages.
I have verified that the following three cookies are set for my site: -PHPSESSID -wikidbUserID -wikidbUserName
Is there an extra configuration step I have missed?
Thanks for your help! -Amy
MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org
"AC" == A Chan chanamy1@sbcglobal.net writes:
AC> Hi Folks, Thanks for the advice so far on my login problem.
Hrm. So, you might want to explicitly set the cookie domain and path for your installation, to make sure the cookies come back the right way. The variables are
$wgCookieDomain -- your Web server domain $wgCookiePath -- the top of your Web server path
Also, do a forced reload (Shift + Reload) to make sure that things aren't coming from the cache.
~ESP
Hi Folks,
To address my login problem, Evan suggested setting the $wgCookieDomain and $wgCookiePath. Setting these variables didn't appear to help. But perhaps I'm not setting them correctly? Would the $wgCookiePath be something like "/wiki/", if my URL is: http://servername.xxxx.yyyy.zzzz.com/wiki/wiki.phtml
Also, with either the default or specific cookie variable settings, I am getting these errors in the Apache error.log:
[client IPaddressgoeshere] PHP Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp\sess_747650f99119aca72bceb23fc4ba046f, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\wiki\Setup.php on line 93 ... [client IPaddressgoeshere] PHP Warning: Unknown(): open(/tmp\sess_747650f99119aca72bceb23fc4ba046f, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 [client IPaddressgoeshere] PHP Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0
Thanks again for all of your advice, -Amy
--- Evan Prodromou evan@wikitravel.org wrote:
"AC" == A Chan chanamy1@sbcglobal.net
writes:
AC> Hi Folks, Thanks for the advice so far on mylogin problem.
Hrm. So, you might want to explicitly set the cookie domain and path for your installation, to make sure the cookies come back the right way. The variables are
$wgCookieDomain -- your Web server domain $wgCookiePath -- the top of your Webserver path
Also, do a forced reload (Shift + Reload) to make sure that things aren't coming from the cache.
~ESP
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On Feb 17, 2004, at 11:27, A Chan wrote:
[client IPaddressgoeshere] PHP Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp\sess_747650f99119aca72bceb23fc4ba046f, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\wiki\Setup.php on line 93
Your problem isn't the cookie, it's the temporary files that PHP saves on the server. I couldn't tell you specifically what's appropriate for running on Windows, but you probably want to change the setting for session.save_path in your php.ini. Clearly Unix-style "/tmp" isn't appropriate... "C:\Windows\Temp" maybe?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Your problem isn't the cookie, it's the temporary files that PHP saves on the server. I couldn't tell you specifically what's appropriate for running on Windows, but you probably want to change the setting for session.save_path in your php.ini. Clearly Unix-style "/tmp" isn't appropriate... "C:\Windows\Temp" maybe?
Having been here in the past, I should note that if you create a C:\tmp, it should work with current settings. I ran into this once on my Windows box.
-- Jake
Hi Brion,
Wow!!! Thank you that did the trick!
Although I thought I had read and re-read the documentation, I just noticed that nugget of information documented on Meta at http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Installation#MediaW...
Thank you everyone for your help!
-Amy
--- Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Feb 17, 2004, at 11:27, A Chan wrote:
[client IPaddressgoeshere] PHP Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp\sess_747650f99119aca72bceb23fc4ba046f, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\wiki\Setup.php on line 93
Your problem isn't the cookie, it's the temporary files that PHP saves on the server. I couldn't tell you specifically what's appropriate for running on Windows, but you probably want to change the setting for session.save_path in your php.ini. Clearly Unix-style "/tmp" isn't appropriate... "C:\Windows\Temp" maybe?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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Our experience, before we recoded everything, (I am assured that we no long er have this problem) was that new users had trouble getting log in to stick and would sometimes give up. Those that keep trying eventually stayed logged in although login would occasionally drop.
If you would like our problems instead of your problems you can try:
http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Wikinfo:GetWiki
Fred
From: A Chan chanamy1@sbcglobal.net Reply-To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:46:27 -0800 (PST) To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.1.0: Login Doesn't Stick
Hi Folks,
Thanks for the advice so far on my login problem.
Fred Bauder wrote:
This is an ongoing problem on most new installations
that I have had
experience with. Basically you need to tell folks to
keep trying.
Does this mean that eventually the problem goes away, or is it intermittent? Would it be worthwhile to try rolling back to the previous version mediawiki-20031118?
Erik Moeller wrote:
Have you enabled the file cache ($wgUseFileCache) or
database messages
($wgUseDatabaseMessages)? I had the same problem with
logins yesterday but
it seems to have gone away after I disabled them.
Neither of these is enabled in my environment. Would have been nice to have an easy fix, though! :-)
-Amy
--- A Chan chanamy1@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hi,
I have installed MediaWiki 1.1.0 on a Windows 2000 machine. Everything works well except for logins. After I login, I get the "login successful" message.
Anytime I click to another page, the page still shows my IP address, and when I edit a page, the revision is associated with my IP address.
I have tried both IE 6.0 and Mozilla 1.3.1.
By checking the the "Remember my password across sessions" upon login I can force logins to stick across pages.
I have verified that the following three cookies are set for my site: -PHPSESSID -wikidbUserID -wikidbUserName
Is there an extra configuration step I have missed?
Thanks for your help! -Amy
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Previous versions had the same problem.
Fred
From: A Chan chanamy1@sbcglobal.net Reply-To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:46:27 -0800 (PST) To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.1.0: Login Doesn't Stick
Would it be worthwhile to try rolling back to the previous version mediawiki-20031118?
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