By merlo on
Hi everyone. i'm quite new to drupal and i have 4 new live corporate drupal sites (drupal 4.7.x, apache, mySql) (pretty much simple sites) hosted @ www.bluehost.com. it used to work just fine until all of a sudden i cannot login to ALL these. i can see the contents with no problem, all complete BUT when "admin" or any authenticated user logs in, it seems not authenticating and doesn't allow me to login. no errors, no nothing. may not be a drupal problem...but just in case you guys have any idea. i really need your help.
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MySQL upgrade?
Any chance your MySQL was upgraded/changed to 4.1 or later from a previous version (< 4.1)? If so, the easiest thing may be to have Drupal resend your password. Any other database changes?
CMSReport
Comcast?
I'm not sure if this is relevant (or even possible, since you seem to be in the Philippines) but our website www.jewcy.com has been hit hard by some fatal flaw that seems to be traceable back to Comcast. Random users of Comcast, one of the United States' biggest ISPs, are getting blocked when they try to login (or submit content, if they were already logged in) to the Jewcy site. Could this be related? I've been following it very closely, but thus far Comcast has been no help.
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I was the lead developer for the New York State Senate.
not only Drupal
I appreciate your comments. it's weird, coz aside from the 4 drupal based sites hosted @ bluehost.com i also have a couple of wordpress blogs and imagesites ALL experiencing the same problem at almost the same time. btw, this is 1 mainsite with 10 subdomains running on different CMS frameworks....so must be with apache or mySQL or something that is common to all.
Have you checked
Have you checked whether the users experiencing the problem are Comcast subscribers? Or is no one able to login at all?
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I was the lead developer for the New York State Senate.
Also check if there was an
Also check if there was an upgrade to PHP 5.2.
Comcast seems to be blocking drupal.org.
I am not sure if the problem is on comcast's end, or drupal end. Here is my email to comcast:
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Comcast seems to be blocking drupal.org. I can not even ping the site
anymore. I used to be able to able to reach drupal.org with my comcast
connection with no problem. But, for the last several days, the site
seems to be blocked. I can reach drupal.org from a non-comcast
connection with no trouble at all.
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Comcast's oh-so-helpful response:
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Thank you for your message.
I understand you are unable to send e-mail using your Comcast account.
The error you are receiving indicates it is possible that your computer
is infected with a virus.
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Comcast blocks Drupal???
Are you SERIOUS? Take a look at these blog posts I've made: http://www.jewcy.com/daily_shvitz/comcast_may_hate_the_jews
http://www.jewcy.com/daily_shvitz/comcast_makes_another_user_sad
http://www.jewcy.com/daily_shvitz/frontlein_stick_it_in_comcasts_eye
This is HUGE. And they don't give a flying f- about it. Email me if you want to learn more.
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I was the lead developer for the New York State Senate.
PHP Version
Make sure to check that your PHP version is greater than 4.3.3 as Drupal requires at least that. I've ran into problems when migrating to new servers where the system seemed to be working, except for the login, and realized that this was the issue.
While I personally haven't
While I personally haven't exprienced this issue, I have a couple users on Comcast who are seeing this.
Running Drupal 5.5, PHP 5.2.0, MySQL 4.1.22-standard.
Open to suggestions.
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Choose the path of least resistance.