Admin Troubles: Logging In And Password Recovery Errors

[lightsuckers]

Ok I have read all the threads do to my problem, I have been doing everything possible for hours trying to get this going.


I have successfully created a pixelpost site on my domain, www.lightsuckers.com. After the installation, and I have created my user name and email and password I try to log on to start setting up my template.

The name and password does not work (the one I created)

Email Recovery does not work, says my username could not be found,

I tried several times to copy pass_recovery.php to my root folder and change that, it does not load in browser, It just stays a blank page.

In dreamweaver it opens.
I have tried 4 different browsers:

Camino
Firefox
Safari
Opera

So far it opened in opera only once and said I successfully changed password, again did not work. I am so excited to get my site up, has anyone ever experienced similar difficulties? Am I making one simple error giving myself trouble up to my tits? Hah man im getting frustrated...


Any suggestions?


Thankyou so much,

I appreciate your software, way cool.

[Dennis]

you can always reset your username and mail address by using phpMyAdmin to go into the tables.

[lightsuckers]

Tried that did not work..

[Dennis]

try logging on making while selecting the remember me option on the login form.

[jeremyrh]

try logging on making while selecting the remember me option on the login form

I have the same problem - seems to be widespread. I can't believe that such an incredibly basic bug is still un-fixed.

[Dennis]

Yes, I agree to this. Perhaps we should line up all the hosting companies with bad configurations and have them all shot.

Although, on the other hand that wouldn't fix the problem would it? Anyway, have them shot after they fix their servers. That would be better.

[jeremyrh]

Yes, I agree to this. Perhaps we should line up all the hosting companies with bad configurations and have them all shot.

Maybe. Or just figure out how other people get round this problem.

[Dkozikowski]

try logging on making while selecting the remember me option on the login form

I have the same problem - seems to be widespread. I can't believe that such an incredibly basic bug is still un-fixed.

It's not a Pixelpost bug.

Try my suggestion here, http://www.pixelpost.org/forum/showpost.php?p=56742&postcount=11

[jeremyrh]

It's not a Pixelpost bug

... but surely a design fault that such a basic functionality relies on a rather obscure configuration?

[Dkozikowski]

Incorrect.

Your hosts configuration is at fault here.

It's not that it's wrongly configured. It's just the way they have it setup. You can contact them and see if they can correct the issue to your liking but until then, you're going to have to modify the code to add the sessions save path.

I'm not going to argue who's right / wrong here. Go install any other program requiring sessions and you'll most likely find that some extra work will be required on your part.

Maybe in the future we can implement better sessions handling but at this point in time, 99.8% of our user-base has no problem with sessions. Besides, I already pointed out the code patch you must apply. It's not like I'm slamming doors shut here.

[jeremyrh]

Well, my host's user support folk responded:

Thank you for your email. The sessions are correctly setup on our servers, so this is not the cause of whatever problem the person in your email is talking about.

However, if you still need the session location it is C:\\phpdata\\sessiondata\\

Will your workaround function with the path as formatted above? Or will it require "unixification".

[Dkozikowski]

It should work just fine. Make sure to keep the double backslashes in there.

Try it out. I don't deal w/ windows systems.

[jeremyrh]

Nope - no joy. The path shows up under the "General Info" tab, but log in doesn't work.