Unable to login

[whitey060580]

YaBB SE Version: 1.5.4
PHP Version: 4.3.2
MySQL Version: 4.0.x
Server Platform: Windows
Link to Forum:

Problem Description:
I have installed mysql php and yabb se but when i try to login with my admin account.  I get the error that i should fill in a username.  I checked the database and the user is showing up in there,  also i cannot create any new users i get the error that the name already exists

thanks for the help

[[Unknown]]

Deja vu... I've seen this before...

Is register_globals on on your server?

-[Unknown]

[whitey060580]

I didn't see a database table by that name listed.  I  also did a search for register_globals and nothing came up.

[Douglas]

It's NOT in your database, silly, it's in php.ini.  

[whitey060580]

im a total noob

hehe ill check when i get home from work.

[whitey060580]

ran home at lunch and checked my php.ini file.

register_globals = off

i changed it to on and tried to login again and it didnt work

[Douglas]

You need to restart Apache after you make any changes to your php.ini file.  

[whitey060580]

ok I have restarted my server and I am still recieving the error.  im not sure if this makes any difference but my doc_root and user_dir are both blank

[Douglas]

That's fine that they're blank.  Can you provide a link to your forums, please?

[whitey060580]

http://www.mysticvioletdove.com/mb/yabbse/index.php

Thats the link to the site.

I appreciate the help that you are giving me. =)

[Douglas]

This is odd, I can't even register.

"You have chosen a username of an already existing moderator"

I know this issue's been covered before, but Search isn't returning any results...

Can you provide a link to your phpinfo file?

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Put that into a notepad file, name it "phoinfo.php" (with the quotes), save it, upload it, please provide a link back to that file.

ALSO, make sure that you have your sessions_save path set up correctly.

[Peter Duggan]

Put that into a notepad file, name it "phoinfo.php" (with the quotes), save it, upload it, please provide a link back to that file.

You can call it anything you like, but I think Douglas *meant* "phpinfo.php"!

[Douglas]

Erm, yeah, phpinfo.php.  Thanks, Peter.  

[whitey060580]

ok i checked the session.save path and it points to c:\perl\sessions which is a folder that was already created and had some files in it

here is a link to my php.ini

http://www.mysticvioletdove.com/mb/yabbse/phpinfo.php

[Douglas]

Okay, your session path should be pointing to your Windows temporary directory (C:\WINNT\Temp, for example), just so that it's standard.  I'm really grasping at straws here, we might have to have one of the developers take a peek at this thread.