Oliver Posted May 26, 2005 Posted May 26, 2005 Hi Everyone My first post on here - just like to say how much I like the service TCH provides. Right, down to business! I installed MoveableType on my domain tonight - using the guide on the TCH help pages - and all seemed to go smoothly, except when I log into the admin section for it, it constantly asks for the username and password (the default one). This occurs on the loading of every page. Has anyone else experienced this - and if so, did you manage to resolve it? Obviously, I hope I have not been silly and missed something obvious in the TCH guide, but having to type in a username and password on every page has become a little annoying! Thank you very much - Oliver Quote
cajunman4life Posted May 26, 2005 Posted May 26, 2005 Hi Oliver, welcome to the forums! First off, I've never installed MT, however I had a similar problem with phpBB, and it was in the way I set up the "cookie". Since I've never installed/used MT, I don't know if there is any way to change the options for the cookies it sets, but I'm sure someone else does. Once again, welcome! Quote
TCH-Don Posted May 26, 2005 Posted May 26, 2005 Welcome to tthe forums Oliver It does sound like cookies, not set by MT (Which I know nothing about) or your computer not accepting them, which you would know about. Quote
Oliver Posted May 26, 2005 Author Posted May 26, 2005 I found a troubleshooter page on MT which mentions this specific problem - highlighting it as a cookie issue (well done to the both of you!) - I looked at my cookies in Firefox and there is one set for my domain. For some reason though, it just doesn't want to play. I will leave it there for tonight - 1:30am in the UK. If anyone has any other suggestions, I would appreciate them very much All the best - Oliver Quote
cajunman4life Posted May 26, 2005 Posted May 26, 2005 Just glad we could help. Let us know how this works out for you. Quote
Oliver Posted May 26, 2005 Author Posted May 26, 2005 I did it! Checked the movable type forums - apparently, a lot of people are suffering from the same problem. Anyway, thank you all for your help and I'm really looking forward to participating in the forums. Amazing how much a bit of a breakthrough can make you feel! Oliver Quote
TCH-Don Posted May 26, 2005 Posted May 26, 2005 Great don't forget to tell what is was for the next one to run into this. Quote
Oliver Posted May 26, 2005 Author Posted May 26, 2005 Good morning, Yes - of course I should explain what the problem was! Well, on the surface of it, it looked like a cookie problem according to this, however I checked my cookies and everything seemed to be ok. I found a link to the MovableType forums, and this was an issue many people had problems with - click here. However, a patch for the 3.16 version - in which the problem exists - has been created. It is as follows: There are two instances of the following line in /lib/MT/app.pm ~ >if ($path =~ m!^https?://[^/]+(/.*)$!i) { These lines need to be replaced with ~ >if ($path =~ m!^https?://[^/]+(/?.*)$!i) { The login error should then be eliminated. Thank you all for your warm welcomes Oliver Quote
TweezerMan Posted May 26, 2005 Posted May 26, 2005 The issue you're talking about is indeed a bug in MT 3.16, but it is only supposed to affect users who install MT to the root directory of their domain (the /public_html directory). If you installed MT 3.16 to a subdirectory below your public_html directory, you should not need this fix. This issue has been documented in the recently created Known Issues forum at the MT Forums site. Quote
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