SID-02075: Can't access to the frontpage

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.1	Perl version:	5.0
Category:	CategoryAuthentication	Server OS:	RedHat 5	Last update:	10 years ago

I am new with Twiki and I don't know if I miss something I finish the configuration of the site goint to "http://IP-ADDRESS/twiki/bin/configure"

then when I try to go to the frontpage I don't know what credentials to use. I try with my Wikiname and my password and doesn't work, I try with user: admin and the same password I use to enter to the configuration file.

I change the login template to none and the password to. But can't access to home.

What I am missing??

-- Luis Elvir - 2015-06-18

Discussion and Answer

Usually, you don't need any credentials to read the frontpage, and admin plus the password from .../bin/configure works as an "admin login". There are a few things to check:

• Login with admin plus configuration password does not work if you set the login manager to "None".
• The password in the configuration file LocalSite.cfg is encrypted, you can not use the value from the file to log in. Just delete the line if you want to set a new password.
• If you are prompted for a password when trying to read the homepage, then
  • either you have added view to the list of {AuthScripts} in the configuration,
  • or your web server (Apache?) requires authentication for TWiki regardless of URL. In that case, look for a line like Require valid-user in the web server's config file.

Good luck!

-- Harald Jörg - 2015-06-19

This could be related to the CGI version issue on newer OSes; a new extension is now available that addresses the CGI issue: CgiContrib - for background see AddCGIpmToTWikiCore.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-10-28

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-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-12-03

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