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Admin panel has stopped working

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:39 am
by tchize
config:
MySQL - 4.1.21
Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)
PHP/4.3.10
Linux sc8-pr-web3.sourceforge.net 2.6.17.4 #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 10:44:05 PDT 2006 i686
Hello,

I installed CMS Made Simple on above given configuration, i had no problem in the begining. After a few days, from time to time i had to type my password twice or even 3 times in admin/login.php before getting access to the admin panel. Today, i again had to play a bit with login before getting access to panel. After i closed the browser, i tried again to log-in and then it completly stopped working. I can't access the admin panel anymore. I tried 15 times, i still get again and again the login page, without any error message. Password and username are correct. Please help me fix it, this installation has now become unusable.

Thanks.


Login events when debug mode is active.

1) enter user and pass to admin/login.php
Debug is on. Redirecting disabled... Please click this link to continue.
index.php
Debug:
loading smarty
Debug:
loading adodb
Debug:
loading page functions
Debug:
loading content functions
Debug:
loading pageinfo functions
Debug:
done loading files
Debug:
(mysql): SELECT * FROM cms_userplugins - Error (0):
Debug:
(mysql): SELECT sitepref_name, sitepref_value from cms_siteprefs - Error (0):
Debug:
(mysql): SELECT * FROM cms_modules ORDER BY module_name - Error (0):
Debug:
(mysql): SELECT user_id FROM cms_users WHERE username = 'tchize' AND password = '**********************' AND active = 1 AND admin_access = 1 - Error (0):
Debug:
(mysql): SELECT username, password, active, first_name, last_name, admin_access, email FROM cms_users WHERE user_id = '1' - Error (0):
Debug:
Got user by username
Debug:
user Object
(
    [id] => 1
    [username] => tchize
    [password] => **********************
    [firstname] => Admin
    [lastname] => User
    [email] => **********************
    [active] => 1
    [adminaccess] => 1
)

Debug:
Starting login procedure.  Setting userid so that other pages will pick it up and set a cookie.
Debug:
(mysql): SELECT preference, value FROM cms_userprefs WHERE user_id = '1' - Error (0):
Debug:
(mysql): INSERT INTO cms_adminlog (timestamp, user_id, username, item_id, item_name, action) VALUES (1156145624,0,'',-1,'','User Login') - Error (0):
Debug:
(mysql): SELECT version from cms_version - Error (0):
2) click on the redirect link
Debug is on. Redirecting disabled... Please click this link to continue.
http://jped.sourceforge.net/cms/admin/login.php
Am back to login screen...



config.php

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<?php


#CMS Made Simple Configuration File
#Please clear the cache (Site Admin->Global Settings in the admin panel)
#after making any changes to path or url related options

#-----------------
#Database Settings
#-----------------

#This is your database connection information.  Name of the server,
#username, password and a database with proper permissions should
#all be setup before CMS Made Simple is installed.
$config['dbms'] = 'mysql';
$config['db_hostname'] = '*******';
$config['db_username'] = *******';
$config['db_password'] = '*******';
$config['db_name'] = '*******';

#If app needs to coexist with other tables in the same db,
#put a prefix here.  e.g. "cms_"
$config['db_prefix'] = 'cms_';

#Use persistent connections?  They're generally faster, but not all hosts
#allow them.
$config['persistent_db_conn'] = false;

#Use ADODB Lite?  This should be true in almost all cases.  Note, slight
#tweaks might have to be made to date handling in a "regular" adodb
#install before it can be used.
$config['use_adodb_lite'] = true;

#-------------
#Path Settings
#-------------

#Document root as seen from the webserver.  No slash at the end
#e.g. http://blah.com
$config['root_url'] = 'http://jped.sourceforge.net/cms';

#Path to document root. This should be the directory this file is in.
#e.g. /var/www/localhost
$config['root_path'] = '/home/groups/j/jp/jped/htdocs/cms';

#Name of the admin directory
$config['admin_dir'] = 'admin';

#Where do previews get stored temporarily?  It defaults to tmp/cache.
$config['previews_path'] = '/home/groups/j/jp/jped/htdocs/cms/tmp/cache';

#Where are uploaded files put?  This defaults to uploads.
$config['uploads_path'] = '/home/groups/j/jp/jped/htdocs/cms/uploads';

#Where is the url to this uploads directory?
$config['uploads_url'] = 'http://jped.sourceforge.net/cms/uploads';

#---------------
#Upload Settings
#---------------

#Maxium upload size (in bytes)?
$config['max_upload_size'] = 2000000;

#Permissions for uploaded files.  This only really needs changing if your
#host has a weird permissions scheme.
$config['default_upload_permission'] = '664';

#------------------
#Usability Settings
#------------------

#Allow smarty {php} tags?  These could be dangerous if you don't trust your users.
$config['use_smarty_php_tags'] = false;

#CMSMS Debug Mode?  Turn is on to get a better error when you
#see {nocache} errors.
$config['debug'] = false;

#Automatically assign alias based on page title?
$config['auto_alias_content'] = true;

#------------
#URL Settings
#------------

#Show mod_rewrite URLs in the menu?
$config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = false;

#Extension to use if you're using mod_rewrite for pretty URLs.
$config['page_extension'] = '';

#If you don't use mod_rewrite, then would you like to use the built-in
#pretty url mechanism?  This will not work with IIS and the {metadata} tag
#should be in all of your templates before enabling.
$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = true;

#If you're using the internal pretty url mechanism or mod_rewrite, would you like to
#show urls in their hierarchy?  (ex. http://www.mysite.com/parent/parent/childpage)
$config['use_hierarchy'] = true;

#If using none of the above options, what should we be using for the query string
#variable?  (ex. http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=somecontent)
$config['query_var'] = 'page';

#--------------
#Image Settings
#--------------

#Which program should be used for handling thumbnails in the image manager.
#See http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/User_Handbook/Admin_Panel/Content/Image_Manager for more
#info on what this all means
$config['image_manipulation_prog'] = 'GD';
$config['image_transform_lib_path'] = '/usr/bin/ImageMagick/';

#Default path and URL for uploaded images in the image manager
$config['image_uploads_path'] = '/home/groups/j/jp/jped/htdocs/cms/uploads/images';
$config['image_uploads_url'] = 'http://jped.sourceforge.net/cms/uploads/images';
#------------------------
#Locale/Encoding Settings
#------------------------

#Locale to use for various default date handling functions, etc.  Leaving
#this blank will use the server's default.  This might not be good if the
#site is hosted in a different country than it's intended audience.
$config['locale'] = '';

#In almost all cases, default_encoding should be empty (which defaults to utf-8)
#and admin_encoding should be utf-8.  If you'd like this to be different, change
#both.  Keep in mind, however, that the admin interface translations are all in
#utf-8, and will be converted on the fly to match the admin_encoding.  This
#could seriously slow down the admin interfaces for users.
$config['default_encoding'] = '';
$config['admin_encoding'] = 'utf-8';

#---------------------------------------------
#Use the old stylesheet logic?  It's much slower, but it works with older
#versions of CMSMS.  You'll also need this set to true if there is a module
#that uses a stylesheet callback.  Leave it as false instead you really
#need it.
$config['old_stylesheet'] = false;

# URL of the Admin Panel section of the User Handbook
$config['wiki_url'] = 'http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/User_Handbook/Admin_Panel';

#Not used anymore... kept around, just in case
$config['disable_htmlarea_translation'] = false;
$config['use_Indite'] = true;
?>

Re: Admin panel has stopped working

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:38 pm
by tsw
Do you get a cookie?

and nothing has changed in your host?

Re: Admin panel has stopped working

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:05 am
by tchize
I got the cookie. I get this behaviour with 2 differents browser (konqueror and firefox) and test also on 2 different hosts. After a bit of investigation, it happen am correctly logged-in, only i have to wait about 5 minutes for the server to somehow discover this.

Here is what i currently must do to login (it's very strange behaviour)
- go to admin/index.php
- type in user an password a login prompt
- i get redirected again to login prompt
- do *nothing* for 5 minutes, keep browser open
- go again to admin/index.php, am recognized as admin

This all behave like if login.php was busy doing something for 5 minute to prepare my session and so the browser did follow the redirect too early. This is very strange and make it very cumbersome to log-in. It's really that strange, the server need 'time' for information from login to be accessible to the rest of page and recognize me. I only have to type password once, but i have to wait 5 minutes for credentials to go from login.php to index.php, and of course, browsers don't wait this 5 minutes, they follow the 'redirect' immeditaly, which lead to index.php to send a redirect to login because it doesn't have yet received credentials.

I don't know how the session and authentification is handled by cmsms, but there surely is something strange there.

Re: Admin panel has stopped working

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:28 pm
by tchize
Any follow up?

Also, i did a bug report (http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/tracker/?f ... 6&atid=101)