Help, Cannot Login - No _CSRFToken exists error

Hi mizrahi, have you got access to phpadmin through your host control panel, you might be able to make some basic edits that way. 

Hi all, for anyone who has an issue with this in the future - we've located the source of the problem. It's related to a particular session_write_close call in lib/database_functions.php that causes this error on some servers.

The solution is as follows:

update /lib/database_functions.php and replace all instances of this:

session_write_close()

with this:

#session_write_close()

If you also have the Autobackup plugin installed, please make sure the backup folder is writeable.

Dave has updated the CMSB source code so the next release shouldn't have this issue. If anyone is still having problems, please post here!

Hi Claire,

Interesting, but that causes a warning with use session_start in our script.

" if (!isset($_SESSION)) { session_start(); } "

PHP Warning:  session_start(): The session id is too long or contains illegal characters, valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and '-,'

An idea?

I found this post: :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3185779/the-session-id-is-too-long-or-contains-illegal-characters-valid-characters-are

Thanks!
Djulia

Hi Djulia, 

I think that might be an unrelated problem, but we'll need to check it out to know for sure.

What was happening with the previous error is that the AutoBackup plugin was calling backupDatabase() which had an optimization to "close" sessions before long backup operations.  So all the patch does was "not" close sessions that were previously opened by CMSB.

If you want to print out what CMSB thinks the session name is you can add a debug line in /lib/init.php

// Initialize session
$session_name = cookiePrefix() . 'PHPSESSID'; // use a unique session cookie for each CMS installation
ini_set('session.name', $session_name); // sets session.name
die("ini_set('session.name', $session_name)");

And check the cookie prefix value which comes from /data/settings.*.php and is stored in 'cookiePrefix'.

You could also check what the session name and ID is before that line:

print "session_name(): " .session_name(). "<br/>\n";
print "session_id(): " .session_id(). "<br/>\n";
if (!isset($_SESSION)) { session_start(); }


Actually, I'm not sure that we change session_id() at all.  Session_id is the name of the session file, and session_name of the cookie that stores the session_id.

If you'd like to  send server details to me at dave@interactivetools.com I can debug it for you.

Thanks!