phpMyFAQ

From the documentation:

5. Administration

The administration of phpMyFAQ is completely browser-based. The admin area can be found under this URL:

http://www.example.com/faq/admin/index.php

You can also login in the public frontend and after the successful login you'll see a link to ...

On a somewhat related note, is it possible to disable the

Wrong login name or password.
(You exceeded the maximum amounts of login attempts and are temporarily blocked. Please try again later.)

message?

It makes debugging this login/cookie/permissions/whatever-it-is issue exceptionally tedious.

My site has been running phpMyFaq for years, but I recently upgraded to 2.9.9 and have been having quite a few problems.

I thought I had things working but now cannot stay logged in.

For instance, I log in as an administrator on my main page http://mysite/kb, then type in http://mysite/kb/admin to ...

It used to appear on the top line, at the right next to Login/Logout, and was generated here, I believe:

//
// Show login box or logged-in user information
//
if (isset($auth)) {
if (in_array(true, $permission)) {
$adminSection = sprintf(
'<a href="%s">%s</a>',
$systemUri . 'admin/index.php ...

Thank you for getting back to me. Yes, I do.

I ended up addressing it by going directly into the MySQL database and changing the configuration base url from http://mysite/kb to https://mysite/kb.

I wasn't able to do it through the phpMyFaq admin interface because I couldn't log in (because scripts ...

It's my understanding that phpMyFaq should work with HTTPS (and that it should internally translate http:// links to https://). However, having just updated to 2.9.9 I am getting broken pages, with apparently no CSS or scripting, and the Chrome console is full of:

Mixed Content: The page at 'https ...

Thank you for getting back to me. As it turns out I had to explicitly activate it in phprc by adding:
If anyone else is on Dreamhost and runs into the same issue, hopefully this helps.

Playing around with upgrading to phpMyFaq 2.9.9 and getting this at the new setup page:

The following extensions are missing! Please enable the PHP extension(s) in php.ini.

ext/fileinfo

But when I run php -i I see: "--enable-fileinfo=shared" in the configure options. Plus 2.8 has worked fine ...

I'm obviously not understanding the upgrade steps clearly.

For instance, the instructions say: "First you have to delete all files except :"

Delete from where? My existing phpMyFaq installation? Okay, that would make sense.

But then it says to open: "http://www.example.com/faq/setup/update.php ...