phpWebLog

There is also a known bug with the admin cookies if you change the SiteKey in the config. The site key should remain 'phpWebLog' for now.

...or else you'll die somehow.

i still can't get it working, even with the SiteKey still in place. in all combos of netscape 4.5 and ie5, and .2.4 and .2.3 - it's a no go. anyone else experiencing simular problems? the cookie is not being set and i am not even getting the stories page to load, it just reloads as if i mistyped the password, which i did not as i have tried every concievable password :). i am still able to login and edit .2.2 from both ns and ie but not .2.3 or .2.4

I am currently aslo having this problem. I have tried it with Netscape 4.72 and IE 5.0 on Windows 2000 and Windows 98SE. I'll look at it and see if I can find anything... :-(

My server is Apache 1.3.12 and PHP 4.0.0 on RedHat

i bet i know what it is. if you are running a unstable version, the password may not be 'password'. Change the password in the database to 'cnffjbeq', which is 'password' over rot13().

$ mysql -u USER -p DATABASE

> update T_Config set Passwd = 'cnffjbeq';



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The above will reset the system password to 'password'.

Well, I've had the same problems.
I've entered the password and the normal stories.php3 appeared without the admin functions although the cookie was set correctly.

I tricked around with several things. I'm using PHP3 and PHP4 at the same
time on my Server.
Well now I've found the reason for the problem.
Using PHP3 worked well besides admin.php3. I changed the application Mime type for the extension .php3 in the apache config to PHP4 and it WORKED.
SO if you have the same problem try this on your httpd.conf:


AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3


Maybe you have to play around with the PHP Version-Numbers etc., depends on your configuration.

Same trouble as Philip while running phpWebLog v0.2.4 on a Win98 box using IEv5.5 or NNv.461. Didn't change the SiteKey. You said you changed the method of password encryption in v.02.4, so the rot13 solution wouldn't work...

...that is, NNv4.61. Damn period. Sorry.

After looking at the cookie issue I found that I was having issues under PHP 4.0.RC1. Once I upgraded to PHP 4.0.0 everything worked.

I am having problems logging into the admin console. Here is what I have found so far...

1) Using IE 5.1, I do not get a cookie warning when submitting password (Cookie warnings on).

2) My 0.2.3 directory is functioning properly, and the cookie prompt does show up there.

3) I have changed the sitekey from what was originally included, and added the password using the "Update" sql statement listed in this thread.

I also can't get .2.3 or .2.4 to work on Win98 SE with Netscape 4.61. It just goes to stories when I try admin and I get following error messages:

Warning: Division by zero in .../vhosts/www.teach-in-China.com/htdocs/weblog/stories.php3 on line 59
You have specified an invalid page number
Warning: 0 is not a MySQL result index in .../vhosts/www.teach-in-China.com/htdocs/weblog/stories.php3

Have tried turning on cookies warning but it didn't help.
Haven't messed with Sitekey or anything else.

Brian, are you sure that is a recent version you are trying it on?

The error "You have specified an invalid page number" was removed from stories a while ago. (week or so). You shouldn't be getting this error with the latest unstable.

Jason,

The errors were with .2.3. My unstable was probably not too recent. It didn't allow me into admin and also gave problems pulling the .sql file into the mysql with phpMyAdmin. .2.2 has been the last version that has worked for me.

BTW, the download link is not working. As soon as I can download the latest unstable I'll try and give you up-to-date feedback. I'm not a programmer so I don't understand very much of the actual coding.

Anyway, keep up the good work. phpWebLog is by far the best in its class!

Brian, you can also download it from CVS on SourceFroge.

i also am still using .2.2 and cannot use the .2.4 admin, even the latest release. i got .2.3 to work but had some issues so decided to wait until a stable .2.4 exists ... where i can use the admin functions. it seems some can and some cannot run .2.4 admin so i will do some more testing. right now i am testing on a php3 server and will install on a php4 server a bit later today. this will be resolved, i am not at all worried.

i also feel phpweblog is the best, it's just so intuitive and useful and it's development speed is amazing to me. again, thanks.

Jason,

I can only find .2.3 from May 24 at SourceForge. No latest unstable - am I missing something? Is it possible that there are different versions of .2.3 around? (I note that Emilio's Italian site appears to be running .2.3 quite smoothly). Anybody else around with working versions? If so, it would be great to get the code :-)!

I get 2 slightly different responses from .2.3. using the same browser. The .2.3 from SourceForge goes to stories and gives a blank (black) page and these error messages in the source when I try to access admin with these errors:

Warning: Division by zero in .../htdocs/0.2.3/stories.php3 on line 59

Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function error() in .../htdocs/0.2.3/stories.php3 on line 66

The version from http://files.greenhell.com/phpweblog-0.2.3.tar.gz gave me a blank stories page with a broken icon in the upper left and a text box in the upper right. The errors were slightly different too:
Warning: Division by zero in ........../htdocs/weblog/stories.php3 on line 59
You have specified an invalid page number
Warning: 0 is not a MySQL result index in ......./htdocs/weblog/stories.php3 on line 90

The latest and most stable version actually, is the unstable version available from the block on the left. (the nightly build). I am not going to be adding much to this version in hopes to fix the outstanding bugs in it, and release 0.2.4 already. New features will be added after that. I hope to finally clear up the admin/cookie problems in 0.2.4, and as far as I know, with a clean install, the unstable version available here has no problems. I've installed in a few times with no problems. Perhaps alot of these problems are coming from people trying to upgrade from 0.2.3 which can be tricky.

Jason,

The links on the left both give 404 not found errors...

brian, there was a dns issue and it seems your isp has not propogated so greenhell isn't working for you (this is my guess) i just copied the unstable here (aint.org/dev/) so get it there.

regarding .2.4 installs, i've not tried to upgrade it, just clean installs.

OK, thanks Philip. Everything's fine now. It looks great!

Why do my posts show up after I post here and then when I come back to see a reply or something, they have been deleted? Well anyway in v0.4.2, I still cant login as admin with password "password". Even after I UPDATE T_Config set Passwd='CRdA8QWcCutMQ'. Invalid password when I type anything in. Maybe there is some kind of global setting I unknowingly have turned on in mysql? Any insight?

Thank you

anonymous: because i am constantly making database changes on this site, and sometimes am not making backups. This should be fixed now since I have seperated the dev site from the live site.

Ahh I understand... but any thoughts on my password problem for admin? I have been studying lots of open source php user authentication code trying to get a firm grasp on it but still I have simular problems with the "crypt" feature when I send stuff to the database.. I am starting to think that it might be a problem with mysql/php install. After I have untar'd, edited common.inc.php3 and dumped the .sql to the database default password should be "password" right? Try for your self(i have not changed anything): http://www.chromatics.net/portal/admin/index.php3

I think this problem may be solved very soon.
Servers running FreeBSD seem to be having the password problem specifically. Is this true?

yes, i am running :

FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE

and as seen in pror posts, i've have been having simular problems.

Yes I am running BSD also! FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Thu Dec 30 02:57:15 GMT 1999..

well im glad im not crazy.

If youre running FreeBSD and just have the problem with the "Invalid Passowrd. Try again"

Look at the other section on the main news index under development, I gave the encrypted blowfish password you need to replace in the MySQL database in order to get the admin section to work right.