[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.1.0: Login Doesn't Stick

[A Chan]

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 at 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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