RE: FN-FORUM: A weird issue with admin login and logoff

date posted 4th May 2008 21:42

Hi Dom,

Thanks for this - I knew I was doing something wrong! I have checked the
index.php and login.php file against copies I hold for a test site, where
login works OK. Both were absolutely identical, so I think it is likely
these are going to be OK. However, checking the .htaccess file has showed a
significant difference. I uploaded one from a test site which I knew worked,
but this still has not worked for my site. I'm not sure what I should do
next??

Alex.

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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: A weird issue with admin login and logoff


On Sunday 04 May 2008 19:30:05 Alex Libby wrote:

> When I put in the URL for the admin bit (say, for example -
> http:///catalog/admin/, it goes straight through to the
> index.php page for Admin, without seeing ther login.php screen.
> Forcing the

Apache (assuming it's Apache, but other HTTP servers are broadly
similar) will usually proffer the first "suitable" page in the absence of a
specific file name.

I.e. it will look for index.html, then index.htm, then index.php, and so on;
this is part of the configuration and can normally be overridden in a
.htaccess file:
http://fragments.turtlemeat.com/htaccess.php

I assume that the index.php page in OSC would normally check for a cookie or
some such and redirect to login.php if there isn't one.

> Any ideas anyone? I don't really want to have to be forced to password
> protect the folder as a get out - I can do it, but it just seems an
> easy way out...I am using osCommerce 2.2 RC1.

A DirectoryIndex directive in .htaccess might do the trick, but personally I
would first check the code in index.php to see what it /ought/ to be doing.

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