2009/12/25 Richard Forristall <Richard.Forristall@goodwillaz.org>:
OK, well I found the issue - but some background info is required so anyone reading this can understand and apply to their situation.
We installed the Koha unconfigured virtual appliance (VMDK) from here: http://kylehall.info/index.php/projects/koha/koha-virtual-appliance/
Normally one expects the admin password to reside in something like: /koha/etc/koha-conf.xml
A search of this file found a location here: /home/koha/koha-dev/etc/koha-conf.xml which had the default password value like this <db_scheme>mysql</db_scheme> <database>koha</database> <hostname>localhost</hostname> <port>3306</port> <user>kohaadmin</user> <pass>defaultpasswordwashere</pass>
A copy of this file is also in here: /home/koha/kohaclone/blib/KOHA_CONF_DIR/koha-conf.xml
I was originally changing the password in the second location, and not the first - - once I found and changed it in the first file, all seemed to work (this was after I changed the kohaadmin@localhost user's password in mysql and restarted apache2)
I believe if you look in the Koha file in folder C4/Context.pm for these lines you see that the program looks for the first available readable file for a koha-conf.xml and uses it - # Koha's main configuration file koha-conf.xml # is searched for according to this priority list: # # 1. Path supplied via use C4::Context '/path/to/koha-conf.xml' # 2. Path supplied in KOHA_CONF environment variable. # 3. Path supplied in INSTALLED_CONFIG_FNAME, as long # as value has changed from its default of # '__KOHA_CONF_DIR__/koha-conf.xml', as happens # when Koha is installed in 'standard' or 'single' # mode. # 4. Path supplied in CONFIG_FNAME. # # The first entry that refers to a readable file is used.
use constant CONFIG_FNAME => "/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml"; # Default config file, if none is specified
my $INSTALLED_CONFIG_FNAME = '__KOHA_CONF_DIR__/koha-conf.xml'; # path to config file set by installer # __KOHA_CONF_DIR__ is set by rewrite-confg.PL # when Koha is installed in 'standard' or 'single' # mode. If Koha was installed in 'dev' mode, # __KOHA_CONF_DIR__ is *not* rewritten; instead # developers should set the KOHA_CONF environment variable
$context = undef; # Initially, no context is set @context_stack = (); # Initially, no saved contexts
================================================================= So, lesson learned?
1. look for all locations of "koha-conf.xml" and change the password in all locations.
Heres a tip, look in the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/koha (or whatever your koha-httpd.conf file is called. Find what flle it has set as KOHA_CONF .. then change that one. That is the file it will be using. Then the rest of the steps work fine :)
2. restart apache2 (/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
3. change kohaadmin@localhost user's password in mysql
**************************************************************** =========== { SPECIAL THANKS }=================================== Chris Nighswonger from Foundations Bible College -- Thanks Chris for trying to figure this out with me! ===========/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/=============
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Chris