[Koha-devel] Koha Cache -- Problem with Changing Admin Password?

[Richard Forristall]

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 at 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


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So, lesson learned?

1. look for all locations of "koha-conf.xml" and change the password in
all locations.

2. restart apache2 (/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

3. change kohaadmin at localhost user's password in mysql

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Chris Nighswonger from Foundations Bible College -- Thanks Chris for
trying to figure this out with me!
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Everyone have a great Christmas!


 
Thanks,
 
Rick
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Rick Forristall
Programmer Analyst
Goodwill of Central AZ
602.535.4078
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Nighswonger [mailto:cnighswonger at foundations.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 6:43 PM
To: Richard Forristall
Cc: koha-devel at lists.koha.org
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Koha Cache -- Problem with Changing Admin
Password?

Hi Rick,

2009/12/23 Richard Forristall <Richard.Forristall at goodwillaz.org>:
> Does Koha use a cache to remember config settings in OPAC and
Intranet?

Not these.

>
> I updated koha_conf.xml to change the password and now in the 
> librarian view and OPAC view I get this error:
>
> Access denied for user 'kohaadmin'@'localhost' (using password: YES) 
> at /home/koha/kohaclone/C4/Context.pm line 667.
> Compilation failed in require at 
> /home/koha/kohaclone/C4/Circulation.pm line 25.

This line indicates that somehow the password in koha-conf.xml does not
match the one in mysql.

Can you access the db via 'mysql -ukohaadmin -p' with the same password
presently in koha-conf.xml?

Kind Regards,
Chris