Installation Problem: Unable to Login with default Usename & Password

[daneen]

I am just attempting to setup EE 1.5 RC4. I have everything uploaded and have ran the setup.

When I got to login via the Editor using the default username & Password (admin/pass), it just goes back to the login screen in a loop. It does update the last login banner, but thats it....

Last successful login was Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:11:57 +0000 from IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx using browser Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0


BTW I am using firefox 1.0 - I tried with ie6 also, but get the same problem - looping login. Its gotta be something simple I am doing wrong!

[Pekka]

Check that you have cookies working. If "Last successful login" info changes, then you got in and missing cookie threw you out right away.

Also, if you use PHP5, you should have register_long_arrays = on in your php.ini.

Let me know how it goes. If you get desperate, you can disable login by empying (or commenting out using /* */) the file SECURITY_check_authorization.php. This will give some error messages from menu script though. If you do this, you will NEED to change your input folder name to something very private!

[daneen]

Thanks for the quick reply Pekka.

The succesful login info is indeed changing right away. I am pretty sure I have cookies working - I even specified them allowed for my domain.

It must be down to the PHP5 setting - I will check which version I am using once my webhost comes back online.

[daneen]

Ok, the server is running PHP 4.34 - there apparently is no line about register_long_arrays=on - if we add it, it still does not work.

PHP is running in safe mode however, would this cause the problem?

[daneen]

Ok scratch that - they tell me that safe mode is off.

[Pekka]

Check that you also have

register_globals = off

You problem may be language code related, too.
If you want me to check it out PM me URL to your input folder, and ftp login info. DO NOT post them here.

[daneen]

Ok - register_globals is off.

PM sent.

[Pekka]

I fixed it, it was a bug which I did not get here.

[daneen]

Thanks Pekka works great :)