[pmwiki-users] missing password form

Tegan Dowling tmdowling at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 12:11:44 CST 2006


Make sure you haven't somehow lost wikilib.d/Site/AuthForm?

Paste in a fresh version?

On 11/7/06, Ben Stallings <Ben at interdependentweb.com> wrote:
> 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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