[Zope-PTK] PTK Login problems at plexnews.com

[tav]

Apologies for anyones time that i wasted, but I managed to get it fixed by
setting up a SiteRoot using SiteAccess. Thanks [especially to knight and
MrBill on IRC, who pointed me to it]

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best regards, tav

----- Original Message -----
From: "tav" <tav@espnow.com>
To: <zope-ptk@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 9:03 AM
Subject: [Zope-PTK] PTK Login problems at plexnews.com


> I spent two and a half days without food or sleep, working on a grand
fusion
> of the PTK with ZWiki, and ended up with http://plexnews.com
>
> However, I have run into a serious problem which I haven't been able to
> solve :/
>
> This lies with the user login / authentification system. It lets you
sign-up
> and login correctly, and even shows the logged_in file, telling you that
you
> have "logged in succesfully". However, go to any other part of the site,
and
> you are all of a sudden not logged in any more. You are 'Guest' again. Try
> clicking on the login form on the left again, and you are miraculously
> logged in...
>
> I am probably way off target, but I have an inkling of an idea as to
what's
> causing the problem... its to do with the urls.... all the urls in the
page
> are relative and are of the form http://plexnews.com/blah, however the
urls
> in the toolbox are relative to the absolute url, and are of the form,
> http://espnow.com:8080/esp/plexnews/blah
>
> I believe that this is causing the problem, as its two totally different
> domains. I tried deleting the self.absolute_url() from PortalObject.py,
but
> that didnt affect the situation.
>
> I am running the CVS version of the PTK from two days back, with Zope 2.2.
> on Slackware. Zope is served through Apache using ProxyPass...
>
> If anyone can help me out, i would really appreciate it. Thanks in
advance.
>
> --
> best regards, tav