[pmwiki-users] More AuthUser problems

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 09:54:54PM -0000, fjumaqu02 at sneakemail.com wrote:
> Might I suggest that the problems with AuthUser (which seem pretty 
> wide-spread) might be related to versions of php, Win vs. Linux, etc?
> 
> I am using IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 with php5 and can get 
> neither AuthUser nor email notification to work.  I can use the 
> admin, read, and upload username/passwords, but everything else 
> (including the examples) fail.

Let's start with a basic diagnosis.  First, PHP often has trouble
on Windows systems because it doesn't set a proper value for the
session.save_path.  So, as a first step, try setting 

    $EnableDiag = 1;

in the local/config.php file, then call the wiki with ?action=phpinfo.
Scroll down and look for the value of "session.save_path".  If it says
"no value", that indicates a problem in the PHP configuration.
The fix for this particular condition is to explicitly set a 
value for session.save_path at the very top of config.php:

    session_save_path('C:\\TEMP');

(Choose any suitable directory for holding temporary files.)

If that doesn't resolve the problem, let me know and we'll provide
some more diagnostics.

Pm