Using vB3 but cannot login to PP after upgrade?

Frost · May 24th, 2005, 02:44 PM

Having problems logging into the PP Gallery admin panel after upgrade when using VB3_INTEGRATION?

In adm-inc.php find:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

And replace with the following, where 123.123.123.123 is your IP address:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

That little change will let you, or anyone sharing the same IP address as you, login to the PP admin panel.

Once you are in the PP admin panel, go to Cookie Settings and set the three values. Not sure what they should be?

Go to vB adminCP => vB Options => Cookies and HTTP Header Option, and write down the following settings:

Path to Save Cookies
Cookie Domain

Next go to the vB config.php file, and write down the following setting:

$cookieprefix

Then in the PP admin panel, set the following:

PhotoPost Cookie Path => VALUE OF Path to Save Cookies
Forum Cookie Prefix => VALUE OF $cookieprefix
PhotoPost Cookie Domain => VALUE OF Cookie Domain

Click the Save Changes button, logout, remove that piece of code from adm-inc.php, clear your browser cookies, and login.

Chuck S · May 24th, 2005, 03:38 PM

Nice notation

Skip2 · July 15th, 2005, 10:35 PM

Thanks so much for spelling that out! That did the trick for me! It was the cookie prefix that was not consistent. I had to change vB's from bb to vB3 to match the galleries, then it worked fine.

wtd · October 21st, 2005, 05:29 PM

man.... i cannot thank you enough. i dug through the database forever looking for what went wrong on an upgrade from 5.1 to 5.21 and couldnt find it. it just wouldnt allow me to login to the admin panel, and kept reverting me back to the main index. i knew from that... it was a cookie issue, but couldnt find where in the hell the issue was.

why in the world would this be stripped out on an upgrade?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
i know it was there, as the integration between vb3 and pp has worked wonderfully for the last several months. it makes no sense to remove this in the upgrade.

thanks again. you saved what little hair i have left. hopefully, this will help others as well.

BobHarbison · November 5th, 2005, 11:36 PM

> Then in the PP admin panel, set the following:
> PhotoPost Cookie Path => VALUE OF Path to Save Cookies

Maybe I'm overlooking it, but I can't find where I set the cookie path anywhere in the admin panel. Where is it?

Never mind, I found the problem, my upgrade was apparently incomplete.