Hi,

I have a new debian 12 server set up, froxlor install worked with no issues.

I am unable to login to the new install, tried chrome, edge and brave browsers, same result.

purged froxlor db & users, tried a fresh install with root as froxlor privileged user, same result.

I tried setting the password for admin via mysql md5(), same result.

Pointers appreciated,

Regards,

Dudi Goldenberg

Kolcore ltd.

1) somethings wrong with session handling server-side

2) some very special character in the password, maybe try something simpler

3) don't use root as privileged user, not recommended, see https://docs.froxlor.org/latest/general/installation/tarball.html#_3-create-privileged-database-user

Hi,

I know root is not recommended, this was for a test install.

There is a '!' in the password as the owner requested... php hash failed on it as well.

I am going to use another password and see.

Thanks for the quick response,

Regards,

Dudi

Hi,

I wiped froxlor, apache2, db users & the froxlor db.

reinstalled all from scratch and I still can't login.

One other weirdness - if I go to http://server.name/froxlor/ I get a 404, but if I go to http://server.name/ I get the login page.

Is this the way it should be? the old server works on server.name/froxlor/ just fine.

Regards,

Dudi

default installation uses only the given fqdn to show the froxlor-ui and not /froxlor/ added to it, this is a setting if you want to change that: Settings » Froxlor VirtualHost settings » Access Froxlor directly via the hostname

What else can I try to find out why I can't login?

Regards,

Dudi

Hi,

I just noticed, if I enter a wrong password I get the pink error msg, if I provide the correct password, the is no error msg but ir just returns to the login page.

Regards,

Dudi

Last lines in the log shows:

server.com:443 141.226.238.20 - - [08/Sep/2025:15:06:45 +0300] "GET /index.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2338 "https://server.com/index.php?showmessage=2" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like G

ecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/140.0.0.0"

server.com:443 141.226.238.20 - - [08/Sep/2025:15:06:59 +0300] "POST /index.php HTTP/1.1" 302 1611 "https://server.com/index.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/

140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/140.0.0.0"

server.com:443 141.226.238.20 - - [08/Sep/2025:15:06:59 +0300] "GET /admin_index.php HTTP/1.1" 302 1280 "https://server.com/index.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ch

rome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/140.0.0.0"

server.com:443 141.226.238.20 - - [08/Sep/2025:15:06:59 +0300] "GET /index.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2342 "https://server.com/index.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/1

40.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/140.0.0.0"

So it looks like it goes past the admin auth, gets admin_index.php and calls index.php again.

Help appreciated,

Regards,

Dudi

then there might me some issues with starting the session, if you want, DM me a test-user with password, so I can test.

I'll create a user for you with sudo

How/where do I DM you?

Dudi

I sent you the login details via a msg in your profile.

Regards,

Dudi