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lorenb · Post by **lorenb** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:10 pm

I'm trying to setup WordPress but I'm not having much luck. I created a virtualhost in apache:

<VirtualHost *:443>

        DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress
        ServerName wordpress.example.org

        <Directory />

                php_flag register_globals off
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

                <IfModule mod_dir.c>
                        DirectoryIndex index.php
                </IfModule>

        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I then used wp-config-sample.php to create wp-config.php. I tested the MySQL credentials and they worked fine.

So I then tried to go to:

http://wordpress.example.org/wp-admin/wp-install.php

All I get back from that is:

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<html><body></body></html>

I've got a similar config for SquirrelMail and that works fine. Now sure what the problem is.

Any WordPress users out there that might know what I'm doing wrong?

hadfield · Post by **hadfield** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 7:36 am

<VirtualHost *:443>

Are you installing it using ssl? Did you use https (instead of http) to test the site?

lorenb · Post by **lorenb** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:25 am

hadfield wrote:
<VirtualHost *:443>
Are you installing it using ssl? Did you use https (instead of http) to test the site?

Yeah that was just a cut/paste error. I ended up changing it to *:80. Either way though (http/https), the output is always blank HTML.

If my SquirrelMail didn't work, I'd know for sure it was an apache or PHP issue. I don't know, it's really weird.

lorenb · Post by **lorenb** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:16 pm

I found the problem I was having and that was that PHP didn't have MySQL support compiled into it so WordPress failed silently. I was able to then complete the install with no errors. However when I can't login as 'admin'. When I try I get the message from Firefox:

Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page. This may be caused by cookies that are blocked.

I'm not blocking cookies so I know it's not that. Anyone got any ideas?

lorenb · Post by **lorenb** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 3:48 pm

Found the problem, it seemed to be a patch applied to the WordPress source. I just commented out this line in src_unpack:

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epatch ${FILESDIR}/${PV}/login-patch.diff

I can login and everything works fine now.

hadfield · Post by **hadfield** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:03 pm

You should submit a bug about this at http://bugs.gentoo.org. I believe the wordpress ebuild is relatively new.

hadfield · Post by **hadfield** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 1:59 am

Ok, so I've just installed wordpress and ran into this same problem.

This bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53563 says that you need to install wordpress with webapp-config because it needs a patch that webapp config will apply to it.

I didn't use webapp-config to install it though. So I'm not sure if my fix will break anything else. But if you want modify line 257 in wp-login.php

from: } else {
to: } elseif (False) {

This just basically blocks the code that executes the redirection. I'll post again if I find that it breaks anything.

[sinz] · Post by **[sinz]** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:14 am

I'm trying to use wordpress 1.2.1, used webapp-config to install it but am having the same results. It seems that in 1.2.1 the wp-login.php isn't the same as previous versions as my lines don't match anything close to yours. Has anyone else found a fix for this yet

CapnBuckle · Post by **CapnBuckle** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:28 pm

I posted about this in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? ... 68#1711368

This is the change I found necessary for the redirect problem:

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diff -P -r -u -x '*~' ebuild/htdocs/wp-admin/auth.php tarball/htdocs/wp-admin/auth.php
--- ebuild/htdocs/wp-admin/auth.php      2004-10-10 23:45:52.000000000 -0500
+++ tarball/htdocs/wp-admin/auth.php    2004-05-18 21:05:40.000000000 -0500
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
                return false;

        } else {
-               if ($login->user_login == $user_login && $login->user_pass == $user_pass_md5) {
+               if ($login->user_login == $user_login && md5($login->user_pass) == $user_pass_md5) {
                        return true;
                } else {
                        return false;

This is actually how it is in the tarball from wordpress.org. Apparently, the souce used in the ebuild needs to be updated.

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