Please Help: Can't log in after installation of drupal 5.1

By kredaz on 11 Feb 2007 at 17:21 UTC

I'm writing from Rome Italy, My server has windows 2000 server, with PHP 4.4.2 and mysql 4.1.20 with an old version of Drupal everything works ok ,but with Drupal 4.7 and 5.1 I get the same problem:
once I have created the first account I can manage everything ok, once I get out I get the message:

Access denied You are not authorized to access this page.

If I ask to change my password and I get the email back, then I can log in again, but when I log out, still I can't log in again.
Il looks like Drupal does not autenticate users and is not distinguish between user 1 and other when trying to log in, even though once I'm in when I change the password, there is difference about users

is there any security check I must do?
Drupaò is also telling me that Microsoft IIS 5.0 is not tested

is there someone capable of helping me?
ciao
thanks

Comments

can this be realated to php configuration?

kredaz commented 12 February 2007 at 23:13

has anybody encountered this problem?
thank you

I'm having the same issue

rclimb514 commented 19 February 2007 at 23:58

I am having an identical problem on a Solaris machine. I'll be debugging it in the next few days, but this is the first Drupal installation I've worked on, so it might not be lightening fast. Regardless, I'll post when I've got it resolved.

rclimb

Port number issue

rclimb514 commented 23 February 2007 at 22:00

In my case, this problem turned out to be related to the fact that my site was using a nonstandard port number. This appeared to cause several browsers to reject the drupal cookie, incapacitating the login system. However, once I started using a hostname that connected on 80, the problem disappeared. If you aren't using 80, I suggest trying to.

rclimb