Forum Subject: Stuck at Step 1 of Geeklog Installation

Posted on: 05/16/02 02:09pm
By: Anonymous (Anonymous)

I installed geeklog-1.3.5 according to the INSTALL file. When entering the path to geeklog in http://yourgeeklogdomain/admin/install/install.php and pushing the button, something happens but I never get to step 2 because it allway loads step 1. I can enter anything or even nothing but I never get an error message, I am stuck at step 1. The geeklog mysql database is still empty. Any hints?

Thanks in advance.
Marc

register_globals=off

Posted on: 05/16/02 03:18pm
By: Dirk

This sounds like yet another case of register_globals=off in your php.ini. Find that line in that file, change it to =on, restart your webserver and it should work.

bye, Dirk

register_globals=off

Posted on: 05/31/02 08:21pm
By: amckay

I notice the new PHP distro now has this off by default (just building it now) due to security concerns.

What kind of effort would be involved in changing GL to work with this off? It sounds like a fairly serious issue, potentially.

Click here for details from PHP.NET[*1]

cheers,
-Alan

register_globals=off

Posted on: 06/01/02 01:08am
By: Dirk

This has been discussed and we decided to leave it as it is and do it right in the upcoming rewrite.

I have done the necessary changes for the install script, the user preferences and the login/logout procedure and I can tell you it is a lot of work that requires lots of changes all over the place. With all theses changes, we risk introducing new bugs in places that worked before, so that's why it was decided to not make the changes in the current code base.

As for the security concerns: AFAICS you can not override Geeklog's security layer this way, so it's not really a security issue. You could, I assume, confuse Geeklog here and there but I have yet to see a case where you could, say, damage the database with this approach.

bye, Dirk

Geeklog - Forum Subject: Stuck at Step 1 of Geeklog Installation
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[*1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.registerglobals.php