Okay, my installation seemed to be working okay until I tried to create a new account as if I were a user. It allows you to enter the info on the screen, but when you hit "create account" it just keeps coming back to that page, and the account is never actually created.
Also, I have successfully created users via the Admin screen, and can assign them as teachers, but then when I try to edit those users, it says "no users found."
Please advise.
Hello again. Any chance I can get some help on this issue? I have no idea why it's not working. I'm a complete novice with PHP, so am stumped. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Valerie
Hello Valerie,
I have the same problem.
But it seems like a client side problem. When I go to Moodle from my home internet account I am able to log in and to add users. Also when I'm at my office it's no problem. But when I'm loggin in with one of the students computers the screen refreshes en nothing seems to happen. I can't login as myself but I also cannot add new users. If anyone has a solution, please help. We are still searching and if we find the answer I'll let you know.
I have a similar problem. When I go to add users, the username field is blank or it says 'changeme', yet there is no form field. It just shows up as text. Also, there is no formfield for adding a password to the user. Thanks,
Walter
Actually this would be a step backwards from our point of view. We have hacked our Moodle installation to simultaneously use two different forms of authentication: local passwords and popmail authentication. Just now we are thinking of adding ldap authentication to the mix.
Our main form of authentication is via popmail, as this is the only form of university-wide authentication. We also need local passwords for several reasons. For instance we plan to host some secondary school classes, whose students don't have university accounts. Also the popmail server is not altogether reliable: when it is busy it refuses connections for 5-10 minutes. So when popmail authentication succeeds, the popmail password is cached as a local password. We are now planning to add ldap authentication for internal faculty discussions using the passwords for our departmental network (as this would be the form of authentication our faculty would expect).
Offhand I don't see why it has to be so complex. Our mods to the v. 1.0.8.1 authentication code were very minor, some 5-6 lines of code. The logic goes like this:
In effect popmail authentication is used only for the initial login. Subsequent logins are authenticated locally. We definitely need this setup, because of reliability problems with the popmail authentication.
As for the ldap authentication for faculty discussions, sure we could set up a second Moodle server for that. However I thought it would be good propaganda for Moodle to have it hosted on the same server, so faculty could conveniently explore Moodle courses on the server.
With this method the external authentication is never checked after the first time. This means if the password is changed on the "central" database (ie the external one) then it will never updated within Moodle. This pretty much defeats the purpose of having one password for multiple systems.
Not really. If the user changes his/her email password on the popserver and then attempted to use the new password on our Moodle, the login would succeed. The sequence of events would go like this:
Of course the user could still use their old password too, but that would be their choice.
Hi Martin,
Thanks for the info. I tried to run the authentication (/admin/auth.php), but it's coming up as a blank page. Can't figure it out. Thanks,
Walter
Hi Martin,
Is there someething in the code that I can change manually--since auth.php is not working---so that the authentication just checks through moodle. This is a bit confusing for me, since the previous versions didn't do this. Thanks,
Walter
I install moodle on windows server 2003 on local server in my lab and when I try add new user it gave me blank white page , so what can i do , it didn`t make this problem when I worked with moodle on win xp
