Install, Setup all fine - but no Login after first Log-Out

[tiki]

First of all:
Thanks a lot folks, for working on this nice (&nice looking) Photoblog-project!


... here's the problem:

I installed PP 1.7 - everything runs smooth. I install the autoresize-Addon, and the lightbox-link-to-fullsize-image-Addon. Then I upload some images ... all fine.

THEN: I log out for the first time ................................. and that's it then. I type name & password, ... I can't login no more.

I still can view the Blog ( http://www.magnolia.ch/Ruedi-Durscher/ ) . But when I try to login, I can wait for ever ... I get a white screen, when I'm lucky... mostly nothing happens.

--> I installed the whole thing 3 (!!) times now (cleared the mysql-database, the browser Caches, restarted my router, tried different browsers ... same fun each time.

Any help?

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Server-Infos:
Server: Apache Version Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) (Gentoo) mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
PHP: PHP Version 4.4.2-pl6-gentoo
MySQL: Client API version 4.0.27
Session Support enabled

[Dkozikowski]

When logging in, try selecting the "remember me" checkbox. Does this make any difference?

[tiki]

well, it helped once. but after I logged out again, next login-attempt: nothing happens, even with this remember-me-box checked.

Seems like the sessions are not being closed, when you leave, or so ... because: if I wait for about 20min till I try to Login again, it works ... but I don't think that this is a very effective way to work with this ....

PS: Even the browser hangs itself up on this login-attempt. I have to restart it (or use another browser) to even reach the Blog (not the Admin-Section) again. Maybe something within the cookie? I just don't know ...

[austriaka]

please open your admin/index.php and look out for this line 42:
error_reporting(0);
change it to
error_reporting(E_ALL);
and upload the changed version to your server.
Then play your login-logout game again, now an error message should be shown instead of the blank page. Tell us the error message, I guess it is an Addon which is not compatible to v1.7

[tiki]

Hy, thanks for replying. Here's the message I get, when I do the changes as you said, and just acces the admin/index.php-page (even without login in):

Notice: .....

[ I edited this, because as I ot told from the PP-Crew: Notices don't make pages unusable, and there only were notices showing up here ...]

[austriaka]

Don't care about notices, they won't break your page.
Please try to log in as you did before and look out for an error message

[tiki]

ok, there is no error, when I login (just another notice ...), but here's what I get, when I log-out:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/magnolia.ch/htdocs/Ruedi-Durscher/admin/index.php:149) in /home/magnolia.ch/htdocs/Ruedi-Durscher/admin/index.php on line 187

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/magnolia.ch/htdocs/Ruedi-Durscher/admin/index.php:149) in /home/magnolia.ch/htdocs/Ruedi-Durscher/admin/index.php on line 188

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/magnolia.ch/htdocs/Ruedi-Durscher/admin/index.php:149) in /home/magnolia.ch/htdocs/Ruedi-Durscher/admin/index.php on line 189

... seemslike there's a problem with the Cookie?

[austriaka]

so now you could log in?
It would be interesting to see the error which comes up with a failed login

The warnings are not so dangerous too... I guess they come from the fact that there is an error reported before the header redirect. Or did you change something in the admin/index.php besides the line I told you?
Could you confirm that there is no empty line and no spaces before the <?php in the beginning? (Best viewed with a hex-editor)

Do you allow to accept Cookies for your blog? If not, this should not cause an error but who knows...

[tiki]

i confirm:
no spaces, or other alterations, than what you told me to do in /admin/index.php

but hey, ... this starts to be too much for me:
when I put in
error_reporting(E_ALL);
only then, I can easily login and logout and login again
when I take it out again and put in:
error_reporting(0);
I can't login anymore

cyber-voodoo, oh my aking head

PS: And if login fails: there is no error-message at all, just a white page <-- this is when "error_reporting(0);" is in action

[austriaka]

funny thing...
Plz change it to error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE) and try again.
Did you check your Cookie settings?

[tiki]

yes, cookies are enabled in my browser.
changed /admin/index.php as you said, now: no more login

... I don't know so much about php, but I installed about a thousand times wordpress-blogs, phpbb's and so forth, and what comes to my mind is: that by setting "error_reporting(E_ALL);" the PP-blog manages to get the information sent in the right order, while without it, you get the error "headers already sent by ..." - well just a thought, ... and no clue how or where to fix it

[austriaka]

just a "thinking into the blue":
try this one:

error_reporting(0);
?>
<?php

[tiki]

naaaaah, I don't really wanna go there:

when I add
error_reporting(0);
?>
<?php
as you said, I get redirected to "admin/install.php?view=db_fix", asking me to re-enter all information abou my db and stuff. this equals another re-install of PP 1.7. And I don't wanna install it a fourth time, really

[tiki]

now I get this, even when I just try to look at my Photoblog:

Error Message:
Connect DB Error: Too many connections Cause #2

(error reporting is set to "0" again)

I'm quite sure:
When attempting to login to my PP-Admin-Area, PP starts a session, allthough I can't see the Admin-Interface. So when I restart the Browser, killed the cookies and all, try to do a log-In again, another Session gets started, and another and another, and in the end there are "Too many connections".
I think this is what happens, because: Just now (after x failed attempts to login, and browser-restarts, this error message and all) I tried to access the Admin-Area again, by using the direct URL, and I got connected, even without havin to enter a login .... now that seems so utterly wrong to me.

ah darned ... I really hope I can get PP to work, since the theme "horizon" I use is a very beautifull template for a photoblog ... :(

[austriaka]

ok ok, was just an idea...
sometimes it helps to stop the php machine and start it again (just like an old car)
;)

[austriaka]

Connect DB Error: Too many connections Cause #2


So all you have to do now is to wait... Sorry

[tiki]

np, I'm very thankfull for your help ;)

I just can't see any solution ahead right now. the page is loading again - but still the same problem as at the start of the thread

[tiki]

Ok, thanks for your help. I'l uninstall it now. Try again at a later time of the project

[Dkozikowski]

If you want, private message me with the following details and i'll have a look myself.

FTP server/username/password and database username/password/hostname and I'll setup a temporary installation and run through some code changes to see what i can do to make things happen :)