[pmwiki-users] The WikiCalendar and session cookies

John Rankin john.rankin at affinity.co.nz
Tue May 17 01:21:10 CDT 2005


On Tuesday, 17 May 2005 5:39 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:18:41AM -0500, Kevin Walsh wrote:
>> I just disabled every local configuration except the passwords and  
>> the include_wikilog statement, to no avail.  it still prompts the  
>> user for the password on every page.
>
>If you're being prompted for a password on every page -- this generally
>indicates a problem with PHP's session handling on the server.
>Either sessions are disabled, or there's not a valid session_save_path,
>or other scripts are eliminating the session data at frequent
>intervals.
>
>You might try using http-authentication and see if that resolves
>the problem:
>
>    include_once('scripts/httpauth.php');
>
>If that fixes things, then you're fairly certain that the problem is
>in the server's session handling.   
>
>Pm
>
But why on earth is wikilog.php causing this problem??

What sorts of things could erase session data?

And why would it only happen in certain environments?

A perplexed
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JR
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John Rankin






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