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I am experiencing a problem that I have not seen listed on the forum - yet.
On a fresh install - everything seems to be working EXCEPT when I try to add new levels to the site structure. When I fill out all of the necessary information and click the "send category data" button - I get the login screen and I must log in to get back in. Once in the site structure has not changed (the new level i asked for does not show up.
I am running phpWCMS on 3 other web sites without problems. But those are on Linux systems. This is on a W2k server and it did take a little to get it all going. Once I had properly set the document_root setting all my errors went away. I am able to add articles with no problems. Just site structure doesn't work as far as I know.

UPDATE (about 1/2 hour later): Looks like not everything is working. When I try to remove an article it does the same thing. Also - WYSIWYG editor does not show up when I select it. I get only a plain html text editor.

Seems you have a path and/or session problem.

Proof against that.

Oliver

I have tried several versions of $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']= ***** and I still get the same thing. Am I looking in the right place?

and the session? Anytime you access the other page your session is killed.

That's why you are logged off.

Oliver

No, only when I try to make a change to the site structure OR when I try to delete an article.

Here is another piece if information...
system: Windows NT WIN2K1 5.2 build 3790
server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
php: v4.3.3
path:

I tried the setup to create a new conf.inc file. What I noticed is that if I leave phpwcms root: = "" then I get:


But if I set the internal server absolute path so that
phpwcms root: = "D:/hshome/belmont/nevadascience.org/"
Then all is O.K. But when I do this I can no longer access the web site.
I am running the conf.ini with phpwcms root: = ""

Obviously I am very new at this but not afraid to experiment!!

set And don't forget to copy setup.conf.inc.php to include/inc_conf/conf.inc.php

Oliver

I have always had $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ='D:/hshome/belmont/nevadascience.org'; and setup.conf.inc.php is in include/inc_conf/ as conf.inc.php.
In fact I have been editing that file directly now to see what changes I get. Nothing positive has happened yet.
This was so easy to set up on Linux but so difficult on Windows 2000.
I think that this is some other problem not with include/inc_conf/conf.inc.php.
And I think it is a windows 2000 problem - perhaps some permissions setting that I can not change and for some reason it is doing this to me.

BTW - I love phpWCMS. I have started using it on http://www.kidsatlaketahoe.com and
http://www.archnevada.com with no problems but learning all that it can do. I have been using Frontpage for years and I am ready to leave it all behind...

Update -

Created new user with admin rights and still I get the same. it is almost as if the session is expiring. But I have the session time set at the default of 1800.

I am really unsure of what to do at this point.

If I try to delete a user I get the same thing. I have to log in and my change is not save in any way. Also I did check my DB privileges and they are all set properly...

in the following post http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1803#1803 you wrote about the difference of PHP as ISAPI than as CGI. Can this be part of my problem.
I did run info.php on my virtual server and have that info if it will help solve the problem...

Yes - this might be a problem. I do not recommend the use of CGI PHP on Windows.

Maybe check trans_session value.

Oliver

trans_session??
I found session.use_trans_sid Off(local) Off(server)
That is the only thing that I could fing that is close. I am on a virtual server with little ability to make changes. Hopefully this can be resolved because if not i am wanting to change servers.
I just set up phpWCMS for our astronomy and in 1 hour was already setting up site structure. Again that is for Linux.
I do not like windows servers - too complicated for me...

yes that's the value I mean.

Oliver

yes - that must be it. My Linux virtual host is set to "on" and the Windows server is set to off. I will contact them to see if I can get that changed. I will let you know how it finishes.

Thank you so much for all of the help!

My problem is solved.
The web host provider told me that they would not change the session.use_trans_sid values for the server I was on - so I switched to a Linux server and everything is fixed.
Everything is running perfectly!!!

Thanks for all the help and I do LOVE phpwcms!!