[pmwiki-users] missing password form

Ben Stallings Ben at InterdependentWeb.com
Tue Nov 7 11:51:03 CST 2006


One of my PmWiki sites has stopped displaying the password form.  If you 
use an action that would require a password (such as ?action=edit), you 
get a blank page.  It's not using either AuthUser or UserAuth, but basic 
passwords only, defined in config.php.

Check it out at http://franstallings.com/ .

I've checked the config.php and the files in the scripts directory, 
comparing them to a working site running the same version (2.1.24), and 
can't find any differences -- the program files are identical.  I tried 
commenting out bits of config.php, and the only thing that changes the 
behavior is to comment out the definition of $DefaultPasswords['edit'] 
... and that only enables editing; commenting out the equivalent admin 
password doesn't enable ?action=attr.

One difference I did find was that many files on the sick site were set 
to 644 (rw-r--r--) rather than 664 (rw-rw-r--), but changing this didn't 
help.  I even tried changing them to the Permissions of the Beast 
(rw-rw-rw-), but that did nothing but immanentize the eschaton, 
presumably. (obscure joke)

The sick site is on a different server from my other sites, so I suppose 
some Apache setting could be different, but I don't know where to start 
diagnosing that.  It's been several months since I'm sure it was 
working, and I don't remember making any changes since then, but they 
could have made some changes on the server side without telling me.  Or 
I could have changed something and forgotten!

Any ideas?  What have I overlooked?  Thanks in advance!  --Ben S.




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