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Hi all,

i've just extracted MamboV4[1].5.2.3-stable.tar.gz to my local webserver in order to get used to Mambo.

I'm using apache 1.3.26, php 4.4.0, mysql 3.23.49, exactly the same versions as installed on my webspace.

The installation worked fine, no problems at all.... But then i tried to log into administrator account, so i used admin for user-name and my password, but nothing happened. Shortly index2.php was called in the webbrowsers url, but then it jumped back to normal administrator log in page.

I've set it up again a few couple of times, deleting everything of the old installation ( dir, mysql-db ), but i still can't login.

Can someone in this forum help me, please?

Regards
Andreas


PS: Searching the forums i've noticed, that i'm not the only one, where this happens. Unfortunately i havent found a tips or answer how to solve the problems

Hi,

I have the same problem. Otherwise - if I type a *wrong* password, a message pops up which says it is the wrong password. With the right word it returns to the login.

I use PHP 4.4 and mySQL 4.0. In php.ini the module php_mhash.dll is not active - is that the reason (the passwords are md5-encrypted)?



Ralph

Hi Ralph,

in my opinion, the MD5-Function is included in PHP 4, like mysql-support. I've changed the setting in php.ini, same error.
Te Pre-Installation-Checker should print an error message in case that ther's something missing mambo needs to work properly, doesn't it?

I forgot to write, that i use win2k pro sp4 with latest updates.

Now I can log-in normally as user , but I don't get the admin-backend to organize my site.
I have no idea why... Can someone help me ?

Regards
Andreas

Andreas,

what did You change, so You can login as admin now?

Ralph

I've changed nothing, just did a reboot

I can login as user , but i cant change something.

Andreas

do you guys have any Firewalls Installed that blocks cookies to protect privacy

Hi bluesaze,

i've already shut down zonealarm, cookies are enabled, security is set to lowest level. microsoft antispyware is off, too

it doesn't work in opera 7.23 build 3227 and mozilla, too ... 


Regards
Andreas

I use Firefox under XP with not any blockers nor firewalls (except of XP-own). No matter which browser I use.

I start the example page, log in (message "Hi Administrator!", e.g. loging-in performed!?), click "administrator" and ... come to the login form page (isn't it useless afzer logging in?). There I can input login data again, and then nothing happens except of coming to the login form again.
Hmmm... Meanwhile there are 2 (!) different session entries in the session directory of PHP. Both of them are created after submitting the extra login form, and not after submitting the form at the example page.

One session (the first?) is empty (0 byte), the second contains the following:

session_id|s:32:"71096d1c6148f950adb8216888088a13";session_user_id|s:2:"62";session_username|s:5:"admin";session_usertype|s:19:"Super Administrator";session_gid|s:2:"25";session_logintime|i:1129314662;session_user_params|s:0:"";session_userstate|a:0:{}

Sorry, my English isn't perfect - I am German. Nevertheless, I hope I can help. :-)

Ralph
post@rstahl.de

Hi Ralph,

I'm german, too. I've installed Firefox and in each browser, IE6, Mozilla, Firefox and Opera there's just the same thing that you've described.
In the meantime I can't login at all.

I am going to set up joomla again. Which server do you use, Ralph? I'm using Apache 1.3.26 for Win32, PHP registered as CGI, maybe there's something wrong??

Otherwise - in my opinion - there can be only something wrong with the php.ini, because in all webbrowser occurs the same problem.

Are some real WAMP/Joomla professionals here to help fixing Ralph's an my problems?

I've fixed it already on my own.
I reconfigured Apache to run PHP as a module, not as cgi. Now everything works fine so far  .

Maybe thats your problem too, Ralph? 


Best regards
Andreas

Well, my PHP is running as a module: the httpd.conf of my Apache 2.0 contains

LoadFile "c:/programme/php44/php4ts.dll"
LoadModule php4_module "c:/programme/php44/sapi/php4apache2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 .php3 .phtml
PHPIniDir "C:/programme/php44"

If there is a difference between running as CGI or module or anything else in the configuration of Apache (or any other webserver!) or PHP, it would be bad! Because I don't have any influence on the configuration of this with a public web space provider. Nevertheless, it would be fine if we could exchange our experiences directly. Andreas, please write to post@rstahl.de. We could offer the solution here in the forum, if we find one. It must be a solution, independent of configuration. Or, the devolopers should describe the requirements exactly.

I've got an interest idea: my local Apache server is listening at port 8080 instead of 80 - could THAT be the problem? So a simple call of "localhost" (used as root of the site) must fail of course. The same problem I have had with another cms.

An addition: in my configuration.php of Joomla is entered

$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://localhost:8080/joomla';

May be, the entry is correct, but it does not work really?

Hi Ralph,

I send you an email to post@rstahl.de

Grüße
Andreas

Thanks, Andreas!

With Yout help I found out, that my PHP configuration was wrong, according to cookie management. Therefore there were these 2 cookies instead of 1.

It was my mistake, not of Joomla.


Ralph