Login redirects to /cgi-bin/manager

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Maaike Reply #1, 18 years, 5 months ago

Hi,

I just installed MODx on a server owned by a provider I haven’t worked with before. And I stumbled upon a problem I hadn’t encountered before...

The MODx installation went smoothly, but when I login at www.mysite.com/manager/, I’m redirected to www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/manager/. This causes a 404 not found error. When I go back to http://www.mysite.com/manager/, I’m logged in and everything appears fine. But when logging out, I’m once again redirected to www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/manager/. undecided

This probably has to do with the fact that php is running as FastCGI on this server? I’m not much of a back-end person, so I’m sort of stuck at the moment. I hope someone here can help me solve this problem. All help is very much appreciated!

Here some info on the (server) configuration:

MODx version: 0.9.6.1p2
My browser: Firefox 2.0
PHP Version 4.4.4
System FreeBSD
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7d
Server API CGI/FastCGI
MySQL version 4.1.20

Update:
[(site_url)] returns www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/. So internal links in my site don’t work either, as "cgi-bin" is inside them everywhere. Is there any way I can remove the cgi-bin part?

Thanks for MODx - I love it!

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Maaike Reply #2, 18 years, 5 months ago

Thanks for your reply!
I made the info.php file like you said and it’s perfectly accessible via mysite.com/info.php
Also, there’s an old php site still running alongside the MODx install and there are no problems there. It seems to be exclusively a MODx problem - it looks like MODx thinks the site is located at www.mysite.com/cgi-bin sad

Any more ideas? Please..?

Thanks for MODx - I love it!

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Maaike Reply #3, 18 years, 5 months ago

It looks like I just solved the problem laugh

But I’m not sure my solution is very good.

I changed these lines in config.inc.php:

if (!strstr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) && ($sapi= @ php_sapi_name()) == 'cgi') {
        $script_name= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
    } else {
        $script_name= $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
    }

to:

    if (!strstr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) && ($sapi= @ php_sapi_name()) == 'cgi') {
        $script_name= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
    } else {
        $script_name= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
    }

I think $_SERVER[’SCRIPT_NAME’]; doesn’t work very well with my server. But is this the right thing to do?

Thanks for MODx - I love it!

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shawntorres Reply #4, 17 years, 10 months ago

Did this solution work? I am having the same issue.
Please advise,
thanks.

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dev_cw Reply #5, 17 years, 10 months ago

From my experience this normally means that you have TomCat (jsp for apache) active on your server. Tomcat has a name space reserved for manager that redirects to the cgi-bin. Drop a support call to your host to find out.

Disclaimer: I could be wrong shocked

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shawntorres Reply #6, 17 years, 10 months ago

Maaike’s solution worked like a charm. THANK YOU! much appreciated.