By SirMoby on

Hi,

I'm running Drupal 5.1 and PHP 3.4.1

It seems the login function isn't working but I'm getting partially logged in.

1. I get the message in watchdog "Session opened for username"
2. When I try logging in from /user or /user/login I get redirected to /user/# and it's always the correct UID
3. When I try logging in using the user block it just seems to refresh the screen but does open the session according to watchdog
4. I still have a saved session that's logged in as admin from over the weekend and it works fine. I'm not going to log out and back in.
5. I've tried logging in using Fire Fox and IE 6, 7 from different machines and no luck
6. I did upgrade about a month ago from 4.6 to 5.1 but things were working fine
7. I did have DrupalVB installed but I've tried this with and without the module and nothing seems to change

I've searched and found some threads with php 5+ but I'm still on an older version.

Any ideas?

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hectorplus’s picture

hectorplus commented

You may want to try clearing your browser's cookie. Refresh your browser and try loggin in.

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SirMoby commented

It seems we think alike because that was one of the first things I tested with no luck. I even tried my wife's computer because that system has never logged in to the this Drupal site.

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redvespa commented

I'm suffering a problem just like this at the moment and I think it is a firewall issue.
Are you going through a firewall?

There are other posts about this problem but it sounds like there are many reasons from PHP upgrades to firewall issues to cookie. I couldn't find an answer either.

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SirMoby commented

There's some packet filtering between me and the server but nothing that would block cookies or interrupt authentication sessions.

Good thinking though :)

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redvespa commented

My problem was due to cookies and my firewall translations, you might want to try this as well, just to exclude cookie domains from the problem

http://drupal.org/node/134976

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SirMoby commented

I noticed a new version of Zend had been installed but that was 2 weeks ago so I checked with my hosting company to see if anything else had changed. No changed on their part so it must be something with Drupal :(

I'm still open for ideas. I guess I just don't know about the login process.

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SirMoby commented

I installed a new copy of Drupal 5.1 and when using the exact same database the same thing happens so maybe it's something in the settings. Any ideas?

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misty3 commented

Are you sure its PHP 3.4.1 ??

If so thats an old version.

Best regards

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SirMoby commented

That's true but everything has been working fine until the weekend :(

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misty3 commented

Edited.

I do not know but I had this login and session problems with previous versions of php with some other script - script used to run fine but suddenly problem starts one fine morning without any apparent reason !

The only way I could solve is by moving to php 4 and advanced ( but not php5 )

Best regards