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

[Fred Bauder]

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 at sbcglobal.net>
> Reply-To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> <mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:46:27 -0800 (PST)
> To: mediawiki-l at 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 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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