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Re: *nuke users moving to xoops - need a site conversion script?
  • 2004/8/23 10:54

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Indeed !

But I'm still hoping that the system is not customized to death. That would definatly complicate things. Before i left for vacation, I could see a couple of customized modules, but none of them creates any new tables in the db. Hopefully I can find XOOPS modules that can be hacked to behave like that. Yeah I know, I'm lazy



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Re: Admin login problem
  • 2004/8/23 10:27

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Cleared cookies (again). I still can't log in.
Yeah I'm sure I'm using the correct password because the system greets me with "Thank you for logging in $username" < - where $username is my user, then redirects me to the login screen again.

Browser is "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040508 Firefox/0.8"

I've found out that lynx (Textbased browser) get's me to this "Hey you're loggin in for the first time..." screen. But then I'm in this endless loop So it must have to do with Firefox somehow.



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Re: *nuke users moving to xoops - need a site conversion script?
  • 2004/8/22 14:54

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Thanks for the advise but I wouldn't try this sort of thing on a production sytem anyways. I'm past this pont ... years past this point

In case updating won't work for some reason (I'm not to sure how customized the nuke system is that I'll have to convert), I'll rewrite the parts in your script that break. I would send it back to you but I guess there's no real use of this for other people in case it's to heavily customised. But then again, maybe it's a good example how to customize your conversion script. Well, we'll see. It's vacation time and eventually I won't have to worry about it for the next 2 weeks.

In any case, I'll keep you updated with what's happening.

BTW: I've got a little problem on one of my machines at home that I wasn't able to sovle by now. Maybe you've got some ideas. Check it out right here:https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=23582&forum=1

Don't worry, the thread is just 3 msg. long



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Re: *nuke users moving to xoops - need a site conversion script?
  • 2004/8/21 17:11

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Thanks a lot !

Now I have to find update scripts for PN
6.8 was your testbed you said ? ... You wouldn't have any in your archive ? Would you ?

I'll check out the script asap.

Gotta run...



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Re: *nuke users moving to xoops - need a site conversion script?
  • 2004/8/20 22:32

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That's very interesting...

I suppose you GPL'ed your script
Where can I obtain it ?

Thanks for the effort, I guess there are lot's of people that don't feel like starting over completely.



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Re: Admin login problem
  • 2004/8/20 22:23

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As I said in my posting earlier, i did check the many threads regarding this issue into all their depth but none of the things suggested there did do it for me.

What I've done now:
checking cookies again... ON
checking php_ini again... register_globals = off

I even did download the source again and did a clean re-install. Still the same...

checking again the file and dir permissions... OK
trying different debug modes (php,mysql,smarty)... no errors

BTW:I'm testing on localhost, no packet filtering or firewalling on that machine.

The funny part is that it displays the message "Thank you for logging in 'username'" <- where username is my username.
It seems to recognize me but for some reason decides to redirect me to the login page again. My guess were the http headers so I've turned off ouput buffering and also zlib compression, restarted the httpd ... nothing. Same ol' sh...
Maybe something is wrong with session handling. Could a setting in my php.ini be provoking this behavior ? Honestly, I don't think I've any "fancy" settings in my php.ini. Especially not for the session module.

Well, something is off here but for the life of me I can't figure it out. Next thing I'll do is trying to provoke error msg. from some functions, just to see how far the login process goes. I don't really want to start hacking this thing before I've even been able to see what it can do.

Any better suggestions ?



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Admin login problem
  • 2004/8/20 15:58

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Hi folks,

I did a clean 2.0.7 install today and the installation went off without a hitch.

When I tried to access my site for the first time, I realized I couldn't log on as admin user. I created a normal user, but no luck either. I just get redirected to the the login page again. If I try to access the /admin directory directly, it of course displays an error message ("You don't have the right to access this area") and tries to re-direct me to the login page again wich fails because it dosen't know where I came from. That should be the out of the box behavior I suppose.

I went to the forum and did some digging but the stuff that turned up didn't fix my problem. I guess my server conf would be of help here:

OS: GNU/Linux
Httpd: Apache 2.0.49
PHP: 4.3.6

Since I've read that the standard Apache 2.x conf does fine for Xoops, this should be out of the question.
Here some settings from my php.ini

safe_mode = on
register_globals = off

session.autostart = 0
session.entropy_length = 16
session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom
session.use_trans_sid = 0

I'm also using output buffering and zlib compression but that shouldn't be a problem I believe.

What I did so far:
I've set the value for debug_mode in the conf table to true, to catch error messages but that didn't help. Seems like that problem dosen't raise an error

I've chmod'ed all files that don't need write access by the webserver to 644.
I've chmod'ed all directories that don't need write access by the webserver to 755
I've chmod'ed all directories that need write access by the webserver to 777
I've chmod'ed all files that need write access by the webserver to 666

That's all.

I'm looking forward to your replies as I grow more impatient by the minute



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Re: *nuke users moving to xoops - need a site conversion script?
  • 2004/8/20 15:21

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Hi there,

I'm mainly interested if you found a way to port the user account data ? I've got this shitty task to port the user accounts of an old php nuke 5.5 to a XOOPS 2.0.7. I was thinking of writing a small piece of code that would take care of that, but then I searched this forum and found your article. I wouldn't want to re-invent the wheel you know

Let me know...




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