On 11/12/11 21:30, Jeffrey T. Darlington wrote: > Again, having the cookie secure isn't necessarily a problem; in fact, I > rather like it that way, truth be told. (I'm all about encrypting > session data.)
Well done :) Not sure if it's an error of firefox (I can't find it), but I'm getting the login page marked as loading content insecurely on the first load (disappears if I reload). >> Still, filling a random user & password, I get the same error you reported. >> Your setup _should_ work, these errors are usually related to php not >> being able to write in the session_path... > > Now that you mention it, I've had trouble with this in the past. I'm > not sure if it's the occasional PHP upgrade, but sometimes I lose write > permissions on the directory session.save_path is set to in php.ini. > This often doesn't present a problem as none of my code and apparently > none of the other third-party apps I have installed seem to use > sessions. It's often MediaWiki where this first crops up. > > I just went and checked on it, and the path seems to have 770 > permissions, owned by root:apache. Unfortunately, I have Apache running > under a non-standard group, meaning Apache shouldn't be able to write > there. I just changed the group ownership to the group Apache is > running under and, as you might guess, it suddenly works. I guess I'm > just going to have to be more diligent when Fedora pushes out PHP > updates and watch the permissions on that directory. I'm glad it sorted out. The timing matching the upgrade of MediaWiki from 1.17 to 1.18, and no mention of a php upgrade obscured it. > I'm still getting the "You must have cookies enabled to log in" message > over the login prompt, however. This isn't necessarily a problem since > I'm the only one with login access (at the moment), but it seems odd > that it should still be showing. That is, unless it's a generic > notification and it's always meant to be shown. I don't remember seeing > it before, but maybe I just hadn't noticed it. Yes, that phrase shown in normal text is expected to be always shown. You can change (remove) it by editing https://www.gpf-comics.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Loginprompt Best regards _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
