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Ziki: Aborted Sign-Up [en]

[fr] Tentative avortée d'essayer Ziki, pour cause d'erreur 502 lors du sign up. En plus, formulaire à remplir trop long, ça ne m'encourage pas à ressayer demain...

Quick feedback about/for Ziki. I got an e-mail quite some time back inviting me to try it out. I discarded it at the time — the tone was a bit too perky and it almost made it sound spammish to me.

I tried to sign up just now because they are using coComment for their “latest comments” feature and I wanted to check it out. Unfortunately, sign up failed because of a 502 proxy error 🙁

It’s all the more unfortunate that sign-up process asks me to fill in a really long form with lots of mandatory info. On the first try my password wasn’t long enough, and I was really afraid I was going to have to fill part of the form in a second time, but all my valid info was preserved. But now, if I try and sign up again tomorrow, I know I’ll have that long form to fill in. What a turnoff.

Advice? Make sign-up minimal. Then encourage users to complete their profile.

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Author Stephanie BoothPosted on 10.10.200630.06.2023Categories Social Media and the WebTags failed, feedback, form, Kit du blogueur, long, problem, process, signup, Social Software, socialsoftware, Software and Tools, ziki5 Comments on Ziki: Aborted Sign-Up [en]

WordPress wp-login.php Problem [en]

Explanation and solution to the nasty Wordpress problem which keeps kicking you out of your admin section with ridiculously long URLs. Just a few lines to delete in a file.

[fr] La solution au problème qui fait qu'on se retrouve parfois régulièrement expulsé de la partie admin de WordPress, et qui implique des URLs d'une longueur indécente, ne menant nulle part. Il suffit de supprimer deux lignes dans wp-login.php.

Yesterday, without a warning or an explanation, my WordPress install started acting funky. Even though I was logged in, I would be faced with very very long URLs showing me a broken login page when I tried to go back to the admin section (something like https://climbtothestars.org/wp-login.php/wp-admin/wp-smilies/wp-content/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=xxxx). Deleting all the cruft after wp-login.php allowed me to log in, but a few clicks later I would find myself faced again with the same nasty situation.

This is caused by a bug in wp-login.php. What happens is that the Blog URL option gets changed to that long funky line in the database, and of course, it messes everything up.

The first thing I did was correct the siteurl value in the database (options table), because I have direct access to the database and like sticking my hands in there. If you don’t have access to the database, you can probably (I’m not certain) set this right through the Options screen in the admin section for your blog. (Remember, if you feel locked out, go directly to http://example.com/wp-login.php to log in.)

There is a forum thread about this problem, but the solution isn’t presented very clearly to my taste — hence this post.

Now for the fix: if you are not going to be moving your blog around (ie, changing the blog address) without having direct access to the database, you can edit the file wp-login.php and delete a couple of lines. Open wp-login.php in your favourite text editor, and do a search for get_settings(‘siteurl’) — that will bring you to the right place in the file. Delete these lines:

// If someone has moved WordPress let's try to detect it
if ( dirname('http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])
!= get_settings('siteurl') )
update_option('siteurl', dirname('http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] .
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) );

I’ve had a similar problem with my Blogsome test blog — with the URL for the CSS file going all funky. It seems to be back to normal, but I’ll check that they are indeed aware of the problem.

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Author Stephanie BoothPosted on 04.12.2004Categories WordpressTags admin, bug, delete, edit, file, forum, locked out, long, problem, security, solution, URL, Weblog Technology, Wordpress, wp-login, wp-login.php20 Comments on WordPress wp-login.php Problem [en]

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