I am having a rather odd cookies problem. Before I describe my problem, let me tell you some history, which may well prove to be useful.

Originally, I was running Piwigo and several other apps on an old discarded desktop "server". It was getting flaky (RAM) so I replaced it with another ageing yet considerably newer desktop converted into a "server". I'm running a small family site and my meager bandwidth is my biggest limiting factor for most things, not the server hardware. On the old server Piwigo was installed via Ubuntu's repos and was running off of Apache.

When I moved over to the new server, I decided to switch from Apache to Cherokee. I copied my MySQL system onto the new computer. When I installed Wordpress and Piwigo onto the new system, I downloaded the zip files and installed them that way, wanting to stay more up to date than I had in the past using Ubuntu's repos. I also copied over my pictures and what not for both Wordpress and Piwigo.

After tinkering with all of this for a couple of days, I have Wordpress up and running 100% and Piwigo is 90% up and running. In fact, Piwigo _is_ running. I can go to www.team-kandy.net/piwigo/ and all looks lovely at first glance. I set up the new installation of Piwigo to use the same user name and password as the old installation and it appears to be accessing the MySQL database on the system. Furthermore, it can clearly find and use all of the pictures. Browsing the site is slow but functional (bandwidth).

I don't have any apparent problems until I go to log in. When I go to log in (with a valid user name / password or not) I am told that: "Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to log in." That's odd because my browser DOES have cookies enabled. I'm running an up-to-date Firefox with the Do Not Track stuff disabled, just in case that was the problem. I can replicate this behavior on Chromium, IE, etc. The funny thing is,  I can actually find the Piwigo session cookie on my machine from my domain. I have also noticed I get the same error if my attempt to log in legitimately or not. For example. There is no use such as:
User Name = Bob
Password = Jones

But, if I attempt to log in as this mysterious non-user, I am told that I have a cookies problem when I should be told no such user exists. To me, this feels like Piwigo is failing to find the referenced session and is therefore complaining about cookies when it should be complaining about a database error, but I may be wrong. It may be something to do with Cherokee.

I suspect I'm doing something incredibly silly and if I just correct _X_, everything else will fall into place but I just don't know what _X_ is.

Here is a redacted copy of my database.inc.php file. I have tested the user name and password on the new machine and I am able to log into MySQL on the local machine using these credentials.


<?php
$conf['dblayer'] = 'mysql';
$conf['db_base'] = 'piwigo';
$conf['db_user'] = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX';
$conf['db_password'] = '##################';
$conf['db_host'] = 'localhost';

$prefixeTable = 'piwigo_';

define('PHPWG_INSTALLED', true);
define('PWG_CHARSET', 'utf-8');
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

?>

Thoughts? I have run both the install.php and the upgrade.php (which fixed numerous database errors caused by the fact I was using an old version of Piwigo previously from the Ubuntu repos. I really do think the database stuff is working correctly, but I threw it in here because it does kinda feel like a database problem.

Thanks