I did a fresh install of pMachinePro 2.4 on IIS.  For some reason I could not log in to the control panel.  If I supplied the wrong user/pass, I’d get a message to that effect in red.  If I supplied the correct user/pass, I’d just get presented with the login form again.

After tracing through some code (I won’t go into detail) I added &use_session_id=0 to line 166 of pm/index.php so that it now reads,

And now, it works.

Or, I suppose I could have turned on use_session_id in config.php.  Why doesn’t it just do that by default?  Or at least have the install script ask.

uh, now i can’t log in with or without the above hack.  hmmmmm.  I get the same problem as above.

Can’t log in with or without use_session_id being set in config.php either.

Again, not getting a ‘wrong pass’ error message, just getting the login form again.

:(

also, when i reset my password, the link that appears in the email is messed up. 

The sentence following the url begins with “Your password will...”, but the link extends over the word “your”.  So I have to do some copy/pasting to get the right link into my browser.

This is quickly becoming an Installation post, not a Tips N Tricks post

looking at the header it looks like it’s just a plain text email, so i guess the problem is there’s no space between the link and “Your”,

admin,To reset your password, please go to the following page:http://mydomain.com/apps/pMachine/members/members.php?p=pwreset&id=304614200Your password will be automatically reset, and a new password will be emailed to you.If you do not wish to reset your password, ignore this message. It will expire in 24 hours.

same thing with the password email that arrives after i paste the appropriate link, the password runs into the word “Once”,

admin,Your username is: adminYour new password: oSbhEBicOGCQOnce you log-in, you can change the password ...

i left my hack above in there when i changed my config.php, oops.  Now I’m in with use_session_id turned on in config.php , and the above hack removed.

But for the record : can’t get it to work without sessions.  Related thread,

http://www.pmachine.com/forum/threads.php?id=28833_0_15_0_C

thanks everyone for your responses hahaha

regarding my email problem above,

http://www.pmachine.com/forum/threads.php?id=29538_0_5_0_C

or i could trouble myself to link it,

http://www.pmachine.com/forum/threads.php?id=29538_0_5_0_C

Sounds kind of like this Knowledge-Blog entry:

I’m on a Windows server and the Control Panel login doesn’t work.