25 May
2006
25 May
'06
4:14 p.m.
Could the xwiki.authentication.cookiedomains setting in xwiki.cfg be
of help here?
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Default+Authentication
On 25/05/06, THOMAS, BRIAN M (SBCSI) <bt0008(a)att.com> wrote:
Chandra:
You are not alone; we've experienced some puzzlement of this kind here.
Of course, for this and other reasons, I'd recommend that you switch to
Firefox.
But back in the "real" world: Very likely it's your browser's cookie
management. Firefox 1.5's default is promiscuous with cookies, meaning
that it does not select the option to send cookies only to the
originating host, so the two hosts both get the same cookie. From the
cookie management perspective, then, the two hosts are the same, because
a cookie with a given name will be sent to any host. Your IE defaults
are (appropriately, in my opinion) more selective, and so they are seen
as two different hosts (despite the obvious fact that they are really
one).
This has resulted in odd login situations for me and my group, where we
have at least three XWikis going at any one time, and logging in to one
has logged us out of another, or any of a variety of problems. When we
thought about it, we realized that we were using different cookie
management policies, and that each one perfectly explained our
individual problem. In our case, there were really three different
Wikis; in your case I assume that "machineName" is just a DNS name for
the same machine.
You can fiddle with the IE default permissions for the local, "trusted"
domains if that's applicable; if it's not then it's a bad idea. Even if
it is, the users have to comply, and at least be educated; giving them
all a "default" default setting that's different from the factory
settings is difficult unless you use SMS or some other desktop
management system.
Or you can, as the doctor said when the patient told him "Doc, it hurts
when I do this.": "Then don't do that". In other words, only use
the
DNS name for the host; localhost is only correct when addressing the
site from the same machine anyway.
My recommendation: I don't have one. But you see what I think are the
parameters of the problem.
brain[sic]
-----Original Message-----
From: chandra.verma(a)headstrong.com
[mailto:chandra.verma@headstrong.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:44 AM
To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org
Subject: [xwiki-users] Session not maintained on Internet Explorer
Hi,
I am trying to install XWiki on my company's intranet for
online project management. I am having trouble using Internet
Explorer with XWiki. When I login as a user, I can see my
name on the top right hand corner and I can also see the all
the admin options on the top action bar (I have admin
privileges), which means that I have Logged in successfully.
But as soon as I click on a link, the page refreshes and I
find that I am logged out. All the admin options are gone.
This happens for all the links
On further investigation I found that this problem occurs
only when I use a url of following type- http://machineName:8080/xwiki
If I use following url, it works fine http://localhost:8080/xwiki
I found that a cookie gets created in "C:\Documents and
Settings\userName\Cookies" when I use localhost, but there
is no cookie for the machineName. So when the application
finds that there is no cookie, it thinks that user is not
logged in, and shows default pages.
The interesting thing is that it works fine with
Firefox/Mozilla. Since most of our users use Internet
Explorer, I am trying hard to get it working but till now I
have no clue how to fix this problem. I have enabled all the
cookies, kept the intranet security at lowest level and
bypassed the proxy, still it's not working. I have also
selected "NO" for the preferences "Always authenticate on
viewing" and "Always authenticate on editing".
I tried searching on the internet but it seems no one else
has faced this problem earlier. Please suggest a solution.
My environment is -
XWiki 0.9.840
Windows XP SP2
Tomcat 4.1.31
MySQL 4.1.19
JDK 1.5
Looking forward for your help.
Thanks,
Chandra
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