Re: user login issue after upgrade to 1.37.2

Hi,

On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 22:15 -0700, Toshi Esumi wrote:
> I successfully upgraded/migrated my old wiki 1.26.0 to a new wiki 1.37.2 
> about a month ago. But now I realized I couldn't log in the wiki to edit 
> content. I was not sure what my old user password was but assuming the 
> old password was less than 8 chars. So I used changePassword.php to 
> reset my password and set a new one longer than 8 chars.
> 
> But when I used it to log in my wiki, it seems to accept but goes back 
> to original page with only "Log in" link on the top right corner, which 
> means I'm not logged in. I immediately checked LocalSettings.php if 
> $wgReadOnly was still configured after the upgrade, which was commented 
> out with the leading '#'.
> 
> What could cause this behavior of the wiki?

See also
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_debug/Login_problems

Cheers,
andre
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