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show_not_logged-in causes 403 error

phoehsl Member
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Hi,

enabling the show_not_logged-in plugin caused a 403 Error on all pages including the admin backend today.

The gallery brings up the login window but after logging in it's 403 for all users.

This might have been because the gallery was also set to private.

Manually editing the MySQL database to disable the plugin fixed the problem.

You might want to look into this by perhaps just including a warning in the plugin description.

Regards, Peter

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    If your gallery is set to private and you visit it as a not logged in user it is at least normal that you cannot view it.

    Best you open a ticket.
  • sbillard Member
    In a quick test I could not reproduce your error.

    Are you using rewrite rules? If so have you made any changes to them? Are you using one of the distributed themes?

    Any URL that directly references a PHP script should load that script. The `show_not_logged-in` is not activated for references to the admin pages, so cannot be involved in that. For the front end all that it actually does is reset the login credentials, so what should be happening is that you get a login form shown.
  • phoehsl Member
    I'm currently doing some modifications to zpBootstrap. Not sure about rewrite - at least I didn't add any.

    Login screen came up. After the login there was only 403 for all users. BTW the 403 error came up immediately after activating the plugin and saving the changes. The reload of the admin page never happened.

    As I said, to fix this I disabled the plugin in the database with phpMyAdmin and everything was fine again.

    A little later however I got that message about a change in the installation being detected and to run the setup script again. Setup gave an an error and couldn,t connect to the database. I then discovered that the password on the database no longer worked. I created a new user in the database, entered the new settings in setup and everything has been fine since. I'm no MySQL specialist so I have no idea what went on there. I remember reading, however, that some version of MySQL apparently has a bug that can cause the password to not work any more.

    Any way, it's working now.

    I'm not sure what the exact reason for all this is. My assumption at first was that when the gallery is set to private and at the same time show_not_logged-in is active, that this will cause some kind of conflict because the gallery can only be seen by someone who is logged in.

    When I get some time I'll setup a second zenPhoto installation and see if this happens again under the same circumstances on the same server.
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