I changed my Q2A to single sign-on. Now I can't access as admin.... What's next?

Sat, 28 Sep 2013 23:46:39 +0000

Hello

Since my website has already contained login mechanism, I used the following procedure to ask Q2A users to login and register:

http://www.question2answer.org/single-sign-on.php

Now, I can't access as admin. When I go to q2a/admin website, it asks to login through my old mechanism, but the Q2A admin is not there. What should I do now?

Thank you

How to set up qa-external-users.php

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:18:41 +0000

I'm not a technical person and am trying to set up this website using question2answer template.

The site is up and I can post questions and answer them, and I've also made changes necessary to qa-external-users.php as specified.

But I'm unable to log in as the log in, register and logout URLs that need to be specified in the file are being done incorrectly. From that particular section I've commented out the default sections and un-commented "Example 1". Yet I'm unable to get the log in page to show up.

Please guide me in how to get the log in and register pages to show up.

I'm not even able to get to the admin panel without these settings!

The code after my modifications for the get-links sections is as below:

function qa_get_login_links($relative_url_prefix, $redirect_back_to_url)

===========================================================================

YOU MUST MODIFY THIS FUNCTION, BUT CAN DO SO AFTER Q2A CREATES ITS DATABASE

===========================================================================

You should return an array containing URLs for the login, register and logout pages on

your site. These URLs will be used as appropriate within the Q2A site.

You may return absolute or relative URLs for each page. If you do not want one of the links

to show, omit it from the array, or use null or an empty string.

If you use absolute URLs, then return an array with the URLs in full (see example 1 below).

If you use relative URLs, the URLs should start with $relative_url_prefix, followed by the

relative path from the root of the Q2A site to your login page. Like in example 2 below, if

the Q2A site is in a subdirectory, $relative_url_prefix.'../' refers to your site root.

Now, about $redirect_back_to_url. Let's say a user is viewing a page on the Q2A site, and

clicks a link to the login URL that you returned from this function. After they log in using

the form on your main site, they want to automatically go back to the page on the Q2A site

where they came from. This can be done with an HTTP redirect, but how does your login page

know where to redirect the user to? The solution is $redirect_back_to_url, which is the URL

of the page on the Q2A site where you should send the user once they've successfully logged

in. To implement this, you can add $redirect_back_to_url as a parameter to the login URL

that you return from this function. Your login page can then read it in from this parameter,

and redirect the user back to the page after they've logged in. The same applies for your

relative to the root of the Q2A site, so you may need to add something.

{

// Until you edit this function, don't show login, register or logout links

return array(

'login' => null,

'register' => null,

'logout' => null

);

Example 1 - using absolute URLs, suitable if:

* Your Q2A site: http://qa.mysite.com/

* Your login page: http://www.mysite.com/login

* Your register page: http://www.mysite.com/register

* Your logout page: http://www.mysite.com/logout

return array(

'login' => 'http://askwho.org/login',

'register' => 'http://askwho.org/register',

'logout' => 'http://askwho.org/logout',

);

Example 2 - using relative URLs, suitable if:

* Your Q2A site: http://www.mysite.com/qa/

* Your login page: http://www.mysite.com/login.php

* Your register page: http://www.mysite.com/register.php

* Your logout page: http://www.mysite.com/logout.php

return array(

'login' => $relative_url_prefix.'../login.php',

'register' => $relative_url_prefix.'../register.php',

'logout' => $relative_url_prefix.'../logout.php',

);

Example 3 - using relative URLs, and implementing $redirect_back_to_url

In this example, your pages login.php, register.php and logout.php should read in the

parameter $_GET['redirect'], and redirect the user to the page specified by that

parameter once they have successfully logged in, registered or logged out.

return array(

'login' => $relative_url_prefix.'../login.php?redirect='.urlencode('qa/'.$redirect_back_to_url),

'register' => $relative_url_prefix.'../register.php?redirect='.urlencode('qa/'.$redirect_back_to_url),

'logout' => $relative_url_prefix.'../logout.php?redirect='.urlencode('qa/'.$redirect_back_to_url),

);

}

register form only available for admin login

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:20:03 +0000

Hello,

I'm testing and discovering Q&A with the project to use it as our question-answer system in a library. In a first approach, we do not intend to ask registration to our audience. On the contrary, we would like to reserve the registration to the team responsible for answering (adminstrator and responsibles by category).

I could see that the registration form url is available only when connected as a basis user. Is there a way to make it work only as administrator and that would not imply a heavy code modification?

SOS! User not found, but it exists...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:12:50 +0000

I try to log into my admin panel, but I can't...

I check the database, and the data is correct...

What can I do?

Thank you in advance for any suggestion...

Not able to Login after selecting URL structure first option

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 04:57:54 +0000

I have selected first option of URL structure. After that I'm not able to Login.

There are some settings I need to do before selecting first option on WAMP server but I've not changed any settings that's why I'm not able to login.

Please help me out on this.

Suggest any other way to change URL structure OR from backend (DB changes etc.).

Help with administrator login

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:30:09 +0000

After installing SSO database, I followed link to the Administration center at

.net/qa/index.php?qa=admin and received a message

"Please log in as the administrator to access this page."

How do I do that?, there is no link on the page.

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