Question

What have I done? My LOGIN and LOGOUT vars are both empty.

I tried to use the TWiki "Login Template" configuratgion but it was failing, thi8ngs got screwed up badly, and I've backed out to what has worked before (Apache htpasswd Basic Auth).

Now my LOGIN and LOGOUT var5s are both empty. Gaaaah.

Help?? What did I break?

• empty vars:
  

Environment

-- VickiBrown - 12 Mar 2006

Answer

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LOGIN and LOGIN are both set by the login manager. The chances are good that you have selected "none" as your login manager in configure.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 13 Mar 2006

Nope, I have definitely set ApacheLogin. For a short while I had this set to TemplateLogin but that didn't play nice with the .htaccess file. I'm using .htaccess.

• Security settings:
  

Next guess for why

Log In

-- VickiBrown - 14 Mar 2006

What else did you change, Vicki?

As described in the documentation, TemplateLogin is not used with require valid-user in .htaccess; that's for ApacheLogin (which you now have selected) ONLY.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 14 Mar 2006

Come again?

I'm using Apache Login and .htaccess (require valid user). The Log In variable is empty. This is silly because it means the pages says

or Register

What do you ,mean by "what else did I change"? If I knew, I wouldn't be asking.

Why is this variable empty? is it expected to be empty? If so, the resulting nonsentence is a bug.

-- VickiBrown - 24 Mar 2006

LOGIN is always empty if the current user is authenticated. Conversely, LOGOUT is always empty if the user is not authenticated. They can never be both empty if the code is allowed to run it's course.

Therefore, the only way you could get them both empty is if you (1) * Set one or other in a topic (2) changed the code or (3) are running a plugin that has overridden one or other variable.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 28 Mar 2006