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The problem of being sent back repeatedly to the log-in page seems to be connected to whether Loudblog can set and read session cookies properly.
The first things to try are those suggested by Gerrit in the first posting in this thread. In particular, if you log out correctly from the admin pages (click on "log me out" at the bottom of the page) this will clear the session cookies, and allow Loudblog to set cookies for a new session.
If this doesn't work it may be worth checking your error log, or asking your hosting service to do so. Look in particular for information about errors relating to the setting or reading of session cookies. Jeff Dyson and I recently had the "log-in page" problem while he was trying to set up Loudblog on a new server. The problem turned out to be that the session save path specified in php.ini pointed to a non-existent directory. The hosting service created the directory manually, and this solved the problem.

What version of Loudblog are you using? The latest version (0.7.1) checks whether the session save path in php.ini is in fact writable, and if it isn't Loudblog looks for an alternative writable location. The relevant bit of code is lines 19 to 26 of loudblog/index.php.

// check if session_save_path is writable and test some other paths...
$session_save_path = session_save_path();
if (!is_writable($session_save_path)) {
    if (is_writable("/tmp/")) $session_save_path = "/tmp/";
    if (is_writable("modules/cgi-bin/")) $session_save_path = "modules/cgi-bin/";
    if (is_writable("../")) $session_save_path = "../";
    session_save_path($session_save_path);
}

We included this feature in LoudBlog 0.7.1 to remove the possible problem of session.save_path pointing to a non-writable or non-existent directory, so I would be disappointed if it is causing problems. If you like, try commenting out these lines in loudblog/index.php - put // at the beginning of each line - and see if it solves your problem. Then please let us know, so that we can consider what has gone wrong.

And are you sure that the problem is in fact the session data, and not - for instance - a wrong password or user-name?  You can check your username with phpMyAdmin - look at the authors table. The password is encrypted in the database, however, so if you fear you mistyped your password you will need to delete evrything (including the tables in your database) and start again.

If you are getting the "wrong username or password" message, the problem is almost certainly a wrong username or a wrong password!
I wrote a little script a couple of months ago to solve the problem of how to get into your LoudBlog site when you had forgotten your user name or password.(OK you can find your "nickname" i.e. username by looking in the authors table of your database, but the password is encrypted in the database and there is no easy way of retrieving it).
Copy and paste the code below into WordPad, save it as a text only document with the name "newpassword.php". You can put in your new username/nickname and a new password by changing the bits indicated, otherwise the new user name is "newnickname" and the new password "newpassword". Load the file to the root directory of your Loudblog site i.e. the directory where install.php, get.php etc are. Then run [yoursiteurl]/newpassword.php. It will return "success!" if the rewriting is successful, or "failure!" if it isn't. Assuming "success", go to [yoursiteurl]/loudblog and log in.

<?php

//include database stuff and functions
include "loudblog/custom/config.php";
include "loudblog/inc/database/adodb.inc.php";
include "loudblog/inc/connect.php";
//insert your new password in the line below between the quotes
$newpassword = "newpassword";
//insert your new nickname/username below between the quotes
$newnickname = "newnickname";
$dosql = 
"UPDATE lb_authors SET
    password = '".md5($newpassword)."',
    nickname = '".$newnickname."'
WHERE id = '1'";

$GLOBALS['lbdata']->Execute($dosql);

$dosql = "SELECT * FROM lb_authors WHERE id = '1'";

$result = $GLOBALS['lbdata']->GetArray($dosql);

if (($result[0]['password']) == md5($newpassword)) {

echo "Success!";
}
else {
echo "Failure!"; }

?>

Then DELETE NEWPASSWORD.PHP from your site, otherwise we will all have fun changing your password!

axyris wrote:

problem solved! I just deleted the databases on my php server, made the loudblog setup again and filled on the required directory field for the podcast www.sitename/podcast instead of only www.sitename .
i don't know, what the problem was.. but it works now. fine

congratulations,now i'll try to solve my problem with you method!

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