I run DBman on a http server and it works faultlessly. That same site is now mirrored on a Https server and the dbman fails. It doesnt load the login screen but just loads straight to "main Menu" page that only has "logoff" and "Home". Im guessing it has something to do with coming from a Secure server, is there a work around yet? I did a search of this forum but the posts that came up on this topic didnt contain any mothods to fix this.

Please can someone help.

If any part of the db works, then it should all work (?). Does the "Home" link actually take you to any part of dbman? Does "Logoff" really logoff (or does it generate an error)?

The only problems I've had with https is that your paths will have changed (and it's slower - at least on a shared server). You may have to add the *full* URL

https://www.securedbob.com/cgi-bin/dbman

and on a shared server that could be something like (for domain www.bob.com)

https://www.shared.com/~accountname/cgi-bin/dbman

or

https://www.shared.com/bob/cgi-bin/dbman

make sure the mirrored site isn't simply pointing back to your site. If so you'll have to really check your paths and experiment with using fully qualified url's instead of relative paths.

Good luck, sorry I couldn't be of more help. Perhaps someone else will throw in some ideas as well. - Mike.

I had a similair problem to this when i first started to use dbman. Mine was caused by authentication. The sites on our server are all business to business so everything and everyone is authenticated. As soon as i changed the script paths to a local url, the problem stopped. I am not sure about which part of dbman parses the input, but because most web servers use an LDAP dbamn sees that the user has been authenticated and sends them to the menu page and you have minimum rights. If you need help setting your local url's or setting up the server for local access, i can be of assistance but if none of the above applies to you, then it's a job for someone with perl experience.

hope this helps,
regards,
darrenb