external_login problems

[yuranga]

Hi all,

does anyone successfully use the external_login.php approach?

I am trying to use it but just end up with a blank page each time. This is the link


http://sitebuilder.hosting1.oztec.c...ya12&FailUrl=www.yuranga.com&Skin=AquaCompact


Any ideas?

thanks
andrew

 

[Dmitry Frantsev]

Try to use following request:

http://sitebuilder.hosting1.oztec.c...=http://yuranga.com&Skin=WinXPReloadedCompact

it will pass you to Sitebuilder panel. I have also tried to use incorrect password and in this case 'FailUrl' parameter works perfectly.

 

[yuranga]

Interesting - in Firefox I still get a blank pge.

But in ie it eventually takes me to the wizard BUT with an error that it cannot get the site.

In fact that may have been the issue all along - I may not have tested in IE. If I take off the skin parameter it 'works' too.

So, in summary - doesn't work in Firefox - anyone know why?

Also, it doesn't work at all in the sense that it gets to the right place but does not have the user id correct.

regards
Andrew

 

[Dmitry Frantsev]

I have checked that and it seems under FireFox issue really exist and following URL:

http://sitebuilder.domain.tld/external_login.php?Login=admin&Password=admin
does not work

but under IE it works fine. I have passed this situation to SWsoft developers and I guess it will be corrected in next version.

 

[SibProgrammer]

Really all works fine, even in SB 3.0.2
There are three optional parameters SiteID, ShowAdmin, and ReturnUrl. You must provide one of them to see anything after success login (behavior under IE was unexpected).

Some links examples:

[url]http://sb-host/external_login.php?Login=admin&Password=admin&ShowAdmin=true[/url]
[url]http://sb-host/external_login.php?Login=admin&Password=admin&SiteId=b2e11f743e10475dcaa60f81b271caaa[/url]
[url]http://sb-host/external_login.php?Login=admin&Password=admin&ShowAdmin=true&Language=de_DE[/url]
[url]http://sb-host/external_login.php?Login=admin&Password=admin&ShowAdmin=true&Skin=AquaCompact[/url]
[url]http://sb-host/external_login.php?Login=admin&Password=admin&ShowAdmin=true&Skin=WinXPReloadedCompact[/url]
[url]http://sb-host/external_login.php?Login=admin&Password=admin&HideNavigation=true&ReturnUrl=http://sb-host/Admin/User/New[/url]

 

[yuranga]

I think there is a problem with the link - should have a .com right?

Anyway, even when I put in a .com all it does is redirects to the sb-host.com website.

 

[Dmitry Frantsev]

As I understand http://sb-host this is not real URL but just an example. So instead of 'sb-host' you should try real URL for your Sitebuilder server.

 

[yuranga]

Oops - when I found a domain with the same name, I thought he must have real examples.

anyway, sorry to say that it does NOT work under Mozilla Firefoz - it partially works under IE.

SibProgrammer - take a look at

http://sitebuilder.sitestarter.com.au/external...

and see if any of your links work. For me they don't.

thanks
Andrew

 

[SibProgrammer]

Again, all works fine Maybe your forgot to replace default login and password in my examples.

Examples especially for you

Autologin to admin panel:
http://sitebuilder.sitestarter.com.au/external_login.php?Login=yatya&Password=yatya12&ShowAdmin=true

Autologin to wizard:
http://sitebuilder.sitestarter.com....=http://sitebuilder.sitestarter.com.au/Wizard

 

[yuranga]

My apologies - you are correct.

The difference between our url's was that yours had a ReturnUrl - what is that? I was using a FailUrl.

It seems that the ReturnUrl is where the user is taken on a successful login? I don't get this though - don't understand why it is important.

I changed that to another location and it went there.

regards
Andrew

ps. thanks so much for the help!

 

[SibProgrammer]

Yes, ReturnUrl used for successful login and FailUrl in case of failure.

As I already said, that there are three optional parameters SiteID, ShowAdmin, and ReturnUrl. You must provide one of them to see anything after successful login (behavior under IE was unexpected).

In next version of SB default behavior will be to show admin panel. But only in the next version

 

[yuranga]

Hi again - sorry for a late reply on that one.

I am finally trying to get this working - see

www.sitestarter.com.au/login.php

The user/pass yatya/yatya12 is still active BUT it takes me to a Wizard screen that does not recognise the user.

Any ideas on this.

I rechecked the links that you sent and they too do the same thing - I presume they worked before, now they don't seem to.

http://sitebuilder.sitestarter.com....=http://sitebuilder.sitestarter.com.au/Wizard

regards
Andrew

 

[yuranga]

I checked the logs and it seems that SB is trying to create another site, but the plan is limited to one site only.

not sure why it is doing that because if I log in fromthe login screen it works fine.

Also, if I click on the admin link from the Wizard it goes into the yata account, so it must be logged in correctly....