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Some ideas to try

mfoss — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:39:36 +0000

ttyl wrote:

thanks, yes with Audium client I discovered to have lots of extra options in the menu, so I am admin indeed. But web_admin doesn't let me in....

Some ideas to try:

1. In the web browser window that asks for username and password, you must indicate your JID myself@hostedvhost and the password (I notice you already take care of this).

2. Try also with other web browser. Mozilla Firefox 3 is known to work.

3. If your username has non-ascii characters, maybe the we browser and ejabberd don't agree in the encoding. To test that, you can create a simple account testadmin@hostedvhost, add an ACL line to ejabberd.cfg, restart and try that one.

4. You can also try to set in ejabberd.cfg the loglevel to 5, maybe it reports something useful in ejabberd.log when the webadmin login fails.

5. It would be interesting to know the exact HTTP+HTML response returned by ejabberd. You can use a network traffic sniffer like Wireshark, tcpflow, ...

6. If you reached here and don't yet solve the problem, show the results of 4 and 5.

If you solved the problem, please comment what was it, and how you solved.

thanks, yes with Audium

ttyl — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:46:47 +0000

thanks, yes with Audium client I discovered to have lots of extra options in the menu, so I am admin indeed. But web_admin doesn't let me in....

From what you say, it should

mfoss — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:15:59 +0000

From what you say, it should work.

Login to ejabberd using that account "myself@hostedvhost", with the Psi client for example. Open the Psi Service Discovery. If ejabberd recognizes that account as having the "configure access", then you will see not only conference, pubsub and vjud elements; you will also have special administrative elements like Announcements, Connected Users, ...

If that works, then the problem is somewhere in webadmin. If that doesn't work, then the problem is somewhere in the acl+access options.