logins stopped working!

[DGEC]

Help!

I don't remember changing anything regarding significant, but all of a sudden, I can't login in at all, neither the original administrator nor any other id. I upgraded to 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 around a month or more ago, and I'm wonder if the password module has problems.

It is a test site, and I had recently added/changed a couple of IDs I had on there already while testing the mailing module, after the 2.6.5 update.  I can't get those ids to work either.

Change password sent a password which didn't work.

I tried to sign-up for a new id, but nothing was added to the database, and no email was sent either.

The password in the email doesn't work (I saw something about that, but can't find where the fix was) safe mode off

Tried MD5ing a new password (tp://www.md5encryption.com/ - thanks Klaus!) and inserting into the database, but doesn't work either - and I believe it did once before when I tried that.  Somehow the login itself seems to be screwy.

linux, php 4.4.4 and mySql 4.1.21

Any ideas???

[doc]

Hello,

do you have access to phpMyAdim? If yes, go to http://www.waerp.de/generatoren.php?generator=md5 create a md5 crypted password and enter it via phpMyAdmin to field: password in the xxx_users table of your account. Set the field last_reset to 0 and try to login with the password you have choosen.

Regards Christian

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

to be shure that all files from WB are ok overwrite all files on your host with the origianl from WB 2.6.5 package except config.php and the install folder, and if you use the advanced form or/and news let the files from these modules on your host also untouched.

Matthias

[DGEC]

I did try resetting the password from phpmyadmin already
I will have to try recopying everything when I get a chance.
The strange thing is that everything WAS working.

[DGEC]

This is disturbing. 

The site displays fine.
I deleted everything except my pages and template directories and reinstalled everything except the config file and install directory.
I did an MD5 hash of a new password, and replaced the password column with the hash. Made sure the Last Reset was 0. Didn't work.
Clicked on forgot password, got a new one emailed out, tried that, still can't log in.

Now what??? I only got this problem a while after upgrading to 2.6.5, and I think I was doing something with user ids. I did find I had duplicate email addresses for awhile. Maybe something got cross-linked and won't come loose? Does the adding a user usually check for duplicates in the database?

Oh, and none of the logins work. But it's not the host, because another 2.5.2 setup on the same host works fine.

[kweitzel]

Are there any .htaccess files, which could interfere?

cheers

Klaus

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

never heard about there could be a problem. The user - password part in WB is untouched since a few versions. So this could not be the problem. And as you said it worked before. So now try to find out what has changed. Did you use special chars in the passwords? Ar you shure all tables are ok? Have you the possibility to make a additional new clean WB install (in a subfolder with other table prefixes) and test if there all works fine? You said you have different WB installs on this server, are you shure you use the right database?

Matthias

[DGEC]

No .htaccess file.
No special chars.
I don't know where to start checking in the tables, the user table looks okay.
Created another installation, works fine.
Guess I'm going to have to dump everything and start over

[kweitzel]

Since you replaced all the files already, the issue has to lie either within the created pages, media files/folder or the database.

Check your apache (or webserver) log for errors ... I bet you'll find some relating to the login procedure.

cheers

Klaus

[DGEC]

I'm not to knowledgble about the logs...  I started over again.

Interestingly, I found out how easy it is to move a WB site to another directory! Just rename the directory and fix the configuration file!  I haven't wiped it yet, moving over pages first.

[kweitzel]

Careful with the permissions and fileownership though ... If you can not install templates, acreate or delete pages and stuff like that, check out this little tutorial:

http://projects.websitebaker.org/websitebaker2/wiki/Docs-EN-Advanced-Howtos-Filepermissions

cheers

Klaus

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

I found out how easy it is to move a WB site to another directory

This only sounds easy. I'm pretty shure you run into a lot of problems if you don't have a look to permissions and ownerships of files and set them after moving to the same as before. So please check all ownerships and permissions before moving, only this way you know what to do if you have problems after moving. And if you got problems after moving, please don't ask a new question about this here in the forum. Search the forum. This is discussed thousands of times and the steps to solve problems are all written down.

Matthias

[DGEC]

Well, I only renamed the top directory of the existing one, and created a new one with the desired name (different database name of course!).  So far everything on the renamed one seems to be working but I'm not changing anything there.

I need to move a couple more sites to my account soon, as well as update a working 2.5 site, so I need to do some bashing to make sure there's nothing flaky going on! Especially with adding users.

Also I want to try out the production/test script. That would be ideal if it works without problems.

[englishdingbat]

This has happened to me twice now. First time I totally reinstalled the site from scratch. The second time has happened on another unrelated site this morning.

[DGEC]

Ouch.
Definitely seems to be an obscure bug somewhere, doesn't there?

I don't think I have had anything go wrong with WB 2.6.7 at least, yet....  Make backups of the database frequently I guess is the only thing besides crawling through the code carefully.