Installing on 0sX

[racca]

Hi

I am having a problem setting up OCS on my Apple. After I have successfullly complete install process I try to log in as admin and are refused access. It reports an incorrect password.

I have reinstalled and started from scatch several times.

System configuration:
OS X 10.4.1
PHP 5.12 (entropy install)
MySQL 5.0.18-standard

The install process seems to complete all each actions ie database tables created.

If type the wrong username it gives a message stating that. So It must be storing the username successfully.

Thanks
Kevin Raxworthy
Dept of Art, Curtin University

[asmecher]

Hi Kevin,

We've had reports that OCS has trouble with some PHP 5.x platforms; however, you should receive some sort of error message indicating the problem. Check your server logs and see if anything relevant has appeared.

Meanwhile, a member of the OCS community has volunteered to work on improving OCS compatibility with PHP 5.x. I'll post here when this happens.

OCS has been extremely popular and is past due for a rewrite; we hope to be able to give it some attention in the near future.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[racca]

Hi

Thanks for the quick response. I checked the error logs.

There were 3 types of errors, undefined constant, undefined index and undefined variable.

I have rechecked that register_globals is reported as being On by the install script.

That gives me an idea of where I should start looking.

Thanks

Kevin Raxworthy
Dept of Art
Curtin University

[asmecher]

Hi Kevin,

The first place to look is in the database to see whether the admin username and password are properly stored. If they're not, the problem is in the install process; if they are, the problem is in the login validation. Here's how to check:

• Go into the MySQL database (you can see the login information in include/db.inc.php) with a command line like the following:

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  mysql -u my_user_name -p my_database_name

• When prompted, enter the database password
• Run the following query:

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  SELECT admin_login, admin_password, md5('ocs_admin_password_here') FROM conference_global;

  This should return your admin username in the first column, and two hashed values in the second and third columns. If the second and third columns are equal, it means the OCS admin password is correctly stored. If the columns don't match, or no row is returned, your admin configuration isn't properly stored.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[racca]

Hi Alec

The passwords MD5 hashes matched so that is fine.

I may of found a solution.
As well as setting register_golbals = On, I set register_long_arrays = On and register_argc_argv = On .

From the description in php.ini register_long_arrays effects input arrays and register_argc_argv effects some args passed by get statements.

I can now log on to the conference database.

Thanks

Kevin Raxworthy
Dept of Art
Curtin university