[Xerte] Re: XOT login problem

[Pat Lockley]

what happens when you play something?

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, thanks.
> They've probably dropped my db or something.
> Sigh.
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>> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:27:02 +0100
>
>> From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: XOT login problem
>>
>> a returned 1 usually means something is up with login_library and it
>> is php returning an error. I forget why, it might be the mysql error
>> failing to connect.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I have not chnaged anything.
>> > The hardcoded stuff is in index.txt.
>> >
>> > My ISP is unfortunately a collection of stooges. I've lost MIME settings
>> > a
>> > couple times, once asp was turned off so my database connection strings
>> > were
>> > rendering as plain text in the browser, etc.
>> >
>> > Could they have done anything to bugger it that it would return "1"
>> > instead
>> > of the normal login page?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:10:53 +0100
>> >> From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
>> >> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> >> Subject: [Xerte] Re: XOT login problem
>> >
>> >>
>> >> index.txt sounds like a renamed demo.php?
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi all;
>> >> >
>> >> > I've got an ancient install of XOT I use for testing stuff
>> >> > occasionally.
>> >> > It has the login stuff hardcoded and has worked fine for years.
>> >> >
>> >> > Today I try to login (index.php) and all that gets written back is
>> >> > "1"
>> >> >
>> >> > I looked the pages in root and nothing appears to have been fiddled
>> >> > with
>> >> > based on the timestamps.
>> >> >
>> >> > But something was odd.
>> >> > The file with hardcoded user/pw was named index.txt.
>> >> > I thought that would have been index.php?
>> >> >
>> >> > Pat?
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