Login loop [solved]

[smyles]

I've just installed Zoneminder 1.21.4 on my Gentoo system using lazyleopard's ebuild from this thread. I've started the daemons using the zmdc.pl start command and they seem to be running well and am trying the web pages. I'm using Apache 2.0.54 with PHP 4.4.0.

I'm trying to login with admin/admin but it just returns me to the login screen. I've spotted various people around with similar problems and they all seem to be to do with the Users table not containing the right data. Using phpMyAdmin I can see that my Users table contains the following:

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Id - 1
Username - admin
Password - *4ACFE3202A5FF5CF467898FC58AAB1D615029441
Language - <blank>
Enabled - 1
Stream - View
Events - Edit
Control - Edit
Monitors -Edit
System - Edit
MaxBandwidth - <blank>
MonitorIds - <blank>

I've stuck a print_r($_SESSION) at the end of the userLogin() function in zm_funcs.php and it looks like the login query is retrieving the correct user data from the database as the _SESSION variable contains the following data at the end of the function:

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Array
(
    [format] => html
    [cookies] => 1
    [device] => 
    [username] => admin
    [remote_addr] => 192.168.7.214
    [user] => Array
        (
            [Id] => 1
            [Username] => admin
            [Password] => *4ACFE3202A5FF5CF467898FC58AAB1D615029441
            [Language] => 
            [Enabled] => 1
            [Stream] => View
            [Events] => Edit
            [Control] => Edit
            [Monitors] => Edit
            [System] => Edit
            [MaxBandwidth] => 
            [MonitorIds] => 
        )
    [password_hash] => *4ACFE3202A5FF5CF467898FC58AAB1D615029441
)

Can anyone give me any pointers about where to go from here?

[unclerichy]

A number of other forum members have reported a similar problem. PHP 4.4.0 has a bug in it that results in this loop effect I believe that 4.4.1 may fix it. Failing that, drop back to 4.3.0 (as I did)

[smyles]

I upgraded to 4.4.1 and it cured the problem. Thanks for your accurate help!

[jemenake]

Well, upgrading to the latest PHP 4.x or even to PHP 5 didn't solve this problem for me. I even completely uninstalled and re-installed ZM... purged the database and recreated it. Still no luck.

What I eventually did to get around the problem was to put:

$action="login";
$username="admin";
$password="admin";

at the beginning of zm_html.php.

using....

$action=$_POST["action"];
$username=$_POST['username'];
$password=$_POST['password'];

didn't even work. So, for some reason, the input fields from the login form aren't getting to ZM.

I'm stumped.

- Joe

[zoneminder]

If you add a call to

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phpinfo( INFO_VARIABLES );

just above where you do the assignement, do you see them listed there?

[jemenake]

If you add a call to

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phpinfo( INFO_VARIABLES );

just above where you do the assignement, do you see them listed there?

Nope. I put the phpinfo call right at the beginning of zm_html.php and it spat out what follows. This is the result of a plain ol' login attempt as "admin". Also, for what it's worth, I've actually printed the SQL query that ZM is trying and I've tried that exact SQL query in the mysql console and it does find the user entry.

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PHP_SELF 	/zm/index.php
_REQUEST["bandwidth"]	high
_REQUEST["format"]	html
_REQUEST["ZMSESSID"]	aa1d1aabc28f8e62b3c0a6cdbc97029f
_COOKIE["bandwidth"]	high
_COOKIE["format"]	html
_COOKIE["ZMSESSID"]	aa1d1aabc28f8e62b3c0a6cdbc97029f
_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]	/var/www
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"]	text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET"]	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"]	gzip,deflate
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]	en-us,en;q=0.5
_SERVER["HTTP_CONNECTION"]	keep-alive
_SERVER["HTTP_COOKIE"]	bandwidth=high; format=html; ZMSESSID=aa1d1aabc28f8e62b3c0a6cdbc97029f
_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]	REMOVED
_SERVER["HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE"]	300
_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]	http://REMOVED/zm/index.php
_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060110 Debian/1.5.dfsg-4 Firefox/1.5
_SERVER["PATH"]	/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]	REMOVED
_SERVER["REMOTE_HOST"]	REMOVED
_SERVER["REMOTE_PORT"]	60069
_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]	/var/www/zm/index.php
_SERVER["SERVER_ADDR"]	REMOVED
_SERVER["SERVER_ADMIN"]	REMOVED
_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]	REMOVED
_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"]	80
_SERVER["SERVER_SIGNATURE"]	no value
_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"]	Apache/1.3.34 (Debian) PHP/5.1.2-1 mod_jk/1.2.14 mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.8a
_SERVER["UNIQUE_ID"]	Q9lDCoFBWwQAAFqs24g
_SERVER["GATEWAY_INTERFACE"]	CGI/1.1
_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]	HTTP/1.1
_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"]	GET
_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]	no value
_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]	/zm/index.php
_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]	/zm/index.php
_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]	/var/www/zm/index.php
_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]	/zm/index.php
_SERVER["REQUEST_TIME"]	1138311946
_SERVER["argv"]	 Array ( )
_SERVER["argc"]	0
_ENV["LANG"]	C
_ENV["PATH"]	/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin