Admin login in a loop
 

Any clue why when I login for my classifieds admin console, I'm taken right back to my admin login page, instead of going into the admin console. I get the thank you for loggin in and am sent right back to the admin login page.

This is on a Red Hat 9, dedicated server, running Vb3.0.7 and PhotoPost 4.7 (I've down loaded 5.0.2 but wanted to get the classifieds fixed before changing anything else)

http://audiokarma.org/forums
http://audiokarma.org/gallery
http://audiokarma.org/ads

check and make sure the cookie settings in your database are correct settings 181-183

most likely your cookie prefix is incorrect

It should be if your using the default vb prefix bb

I bought ReviewPost and ClassifiedsPost together with PhotoPost, but so far I could only manage to get PhotoPost to integrate with vBulletin.

I give up on ReviewPost, and have been trying to get the cookie settings to work on ClassifiedsPost, but I've been run into the same problem: infinite loop of the admin screen.

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Below are the paths I had set in CONFIG-INC.PHP
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// PhotoPost Classifieds Version Number
$VERSION = "2.11";

// Path to your PhotoPost Classifieds installation - no end slashes
$PP_PATH = "/home/mydomain/public_html/ads";

//**************** MySQL Database Configuration ****************//

// PhotoPost Classifieds database host address, or leave as localhost
$host="localhost";

// PhotoPost Classifieds database name
$database="mydomain_ads";

// MySQL username and password to access PhotoPost Classifieds database
//
// These two variables are for the userid and password needed to access
// the PhotoPost Classifieds database named above.
$mysql_user="mydomain_ads";
$mysql_password="cppassword";

// User database host address, or leave as localhost
$host_bb="localhost";

// If you want to use a prefix for your database tables, enter it here.
// NOTE: This variable can only be set PRIOR to your first installation of PhotoPost Classifieds;
// existing databases will not be changed and you will be unable to connect if you change
// this variable after performing a default installation.
$pp_db_prefix = "ads_";

// User database MySQL database name
//
// This is the variable for the User Database; if you are using Internal
// as your registration system, then these variables are the same as the
// ones above. If you are linking to a message board system,
// thse variables should be set to the database, user and password for that
// database.
$database_bb="mydomain_forum";

// MySQL username and password to access user database
//
// These two variables are for the userid and password needed to access
// the PhotoPost Classifieds or BB database.
$user_bb="mydomain_forum";
$password_bb="cppassword";

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Below are the paths I had set in CONFIG-INT.PHP
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// We need to know the server paths to both your vB installation and your Classifieds installation
$vbpath = "/home/mydomain/public_html/forum";
$pppath = "/home/mydomain/public_html/ads";

// We need the URL path to your PhotoPost and vb installation
$url_path = "http://www.mydomain.com/ads";
$vb_urlpath = "http://www.mydomain.com/forum";

// The URL of your photo dir where your images are stored (with / at end)
$data_dir = "http://www.mydomain.com/ads/data/";

// If your PhotoPost tables have a prefix, put it here
// Example:
// $pp_db_prefix = "pp_";
$pp_db_prefix = "ads_";
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My vBulletin settings (?) that I used for both PhotoPost and ClassifiedsPost are:
vBulletin prefix is vb3_
vBulletin cookie is bb

Would someone please tell/show me where I have done wrong ? Thanks

I ran into the same problem today. Like omegatron said, check your mysql table ad_setting and make sure the cookie settings in your database are correct in settings 181-183

Are you referring to a config setting or actual database tables? Sorry, I'm trying to fix what someone else installed, so am not as familiar with the setup.

actual database

I just did a fresh install yesterday and hit the same errors - again.

I thought this was fixed awhile ago (first came up in Jan for me), but the cookie field of bb is getting set in the paypal field of the mysql database - around the lines that omegatron mentioned.

I have the same problem, and for some reason it doesn't have any prefix at all... it just goes

access
adminhelp
administrator
adminlog
adminutil
adv_setting
adv_settinggroup
announcement
attachment
attachmenttype
attachmentviews
avatar
bbcode
calendar
calendarcustomfield
calendarmoderator
calendarpermission
cpsession
cron
cronlog
customavatar
customprofilepic
datastore
deletionlog
editlog
event
faq


etc.

instead of vb3_

so what do you advice?