Installation works... login doesn't

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Just created a brand new test installation of the WebsiteBaker within my existing website area.

Follow instructions. All fine.

Come to admin login screen - type in user details and it just clears and shows the login again: until you run out of login attempts.
Try to ask for password reminder: just returns to the password reminder screen.

Checked databases and user name and password are all set up OK.

Shows 'website coming' on public page.


Any ideas: looked through forums and this seems to have happened to other people, but didn't seem to be any fixes.


Cheers,
G

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Interesting (?) none of the forms seem to be getting anything back from get_post( as if the form isn't submitting correctly.

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Session variables are working elsewhere on the existing site and it is perfectly happy getting the results of a form posted back to itself... but not in the wb installation??!

[kweitzel]

Have you cleared your browsercache?

cheers

Klaus

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Yep!

It appears crazy: when the form gets posted there just seem to be no $_POST values coming across to it. Yet sessions are enabled and other forms I have elsewhere on the same web server are working just right.

Does WebsiteBaker set an explicit directory for session variables for itself (which has got confused because I installed it into a subdirectory, i.e. /test/wb not /wb or which hasn't got the correct rights associated with it?) Doubt the latter because I just set everything to rights: 777 and still no joy.

[kweitzel]

Can you please check, what the errorlog of the server "says"?

cheers

Klaus

[websanity]

Hi Klaus,

Thanks for the help and suggestion. I couldn't see anything in the error log file, but then inspiration struck. I have a .htaccess file set up to deal with some general issues and SEO things (canonicalization, url rewriting etc.). Here is an excerpt:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^websanity\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.websanity.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (index\.php) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ http://www.websanity.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^index\.htm$ /index.php [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ /index.php [R=301,L]


I temporarily killed the .htaccess file and then suddenly the system sprung into life again. So, I just put overriding .htaccess file in the WB directory turning off the rewrite engine and that sorted it out on a permanent basis. Yipeee!!   

Now, I'm no expert in .htaccess, and to some of you there might seem to be something stark staringly stupid about the above snippet, but it's something I've grabbed out of an SEO book at some point in the past, and this is the killer line that has never before caught me out:
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ http://www.websanity.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]
Seems to coming into effect a bit too aggresively, so
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.websanity.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

sorts it out.


fairly obscure, but one to look out for.