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As of today, nobody, including admin can login to our http://www.vmoa.net site. No changes have been made in awhile and we are locked out.
Sometimes the issue is with the "sessions" table getting out of synch, if the site or the server crashed, or was not properly restarted.
Most of the time it is sufficient to clear this table, which you can do in the Admin->Maintenance
Just select to clear the Cache, and clear the Sessions table.
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As stated, nothing has been modified in admin except for approving new users.
Things don't happen "out of the blue" - there is always a reason, sometimes we just don't see it right away. Sometimes we have to dig deep into logs, and then we'll find the reason.
Just couple of days ago I was helping somebody who is an experienced XOOPS user, who assumed that the update to XOOPS 2.5.6 broke everything, and that XOOPS is no good.
After digging in, I have found:
- the server was misconfigured and was blocking access, creating 403 error
- after this was fixed, it came up that the PHP was updated to 5.4.x, which caused one very old module to cause blank pages
Now everything is working fine, but of course, the first reaction was: "It's all XOOPS' fault"
And yes, sometimes there are bugs, which we need to fix. But the key is to approach each issue systematically, without assuming anything, and in most cases we'll find the reason causing that issue...
