Comments on: Comprehensive Solution For Joomla Admin Session Problem After Upgrading To Joomla 1.0.13

By: David Thomas

David Thomas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:33:52 +0000

I have Joomla Version 1.015 which up till recently, last 3 months was working fine. Now I am geting hte issue of invalid logins happening all the time. Sometimes its fine, the next it happens continually despite logging in all the time.

Is there a specific fix for the 1.015 version?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:22:21 +0000

My server got hacked through a site I hadn’t had time to upgrade or do anything with and I’ve had a lot of problems on various domains since, including the dreaded 1.13 Admin “Invalid Session” error.

You are a life saver! Now on to the rest of the fixes.

By: hungvv

hungvv — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:39:31 +0000

i’m using joomla 1.0.12. I did same above but it not work

By: Bernard H

Bernard H — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:48:14 +0000

I faced a very annoying spurious logout issue with JOOMLA 1.0.15 manifesting itself in very few places: the nBill component while editing an order form field, and the native JOOMLA media manager central panel.

I actually applied the fix documented at
http://tech.amikelive.com/node-41/comprehensive-solution-for-joomla-admin-session-problem-after-upgrading-to-joomla-1013/
with some changes so that 1.0.15 improvements are preserved.
You achieve the result using Eclipse Compare editor facilities for instance and move changes one by one over the 1.0.15 files considering their relevance in turn.

You can also download a zip of my own patched files (at your own risk) here: http://www.reversexsl.com/PublicPatches/Joomla1015-logoutPatch.zip

By: Val

Val — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:42:01 +0000

I’m on Joomla 1.10.15, discovered the same problem: either “Admin session expired” or “Invalid session”

I can successfully logon into the backend.
After that I open any item, in the WYSIWYG editor click the button that engages html editor plugin. It opens a new FF tab (as it should) but instead of showing the editor (as before) the tab contains new instance of login screen with “Admin session expired” message above.

I’ve applied the patch, cleared cache etc. etc., but to no avail - nothing has changed.

By: Tech Admin

Tech Admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:28:02 +0000

@Eduard
The error “open_basedir restriction in effect” refers to a situation in which a user is restricted from opening files owned by another user. The error itself is explainable since /var/lib/php5 is owned by system and /ceskamoda/html is your own directory.

However, my patch adds is_readable call to certain file and i didn’t find the filename for your error message. Hence, the self-explanatory error message becomes bogus. It could be something related to my fix or joomla’s. Considering my patch was made for 1.0.13 and I haven’t verified for newer version, I couldn’t verify the real cause and solution for your case, unless I look at and fiddle with it by myself.

By: nietzsche

nietzsche — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:08:31 +0000

@captain nemo I got the excat same problem with an 1.0.15 version of joomla. It seems to be keep changing my password in the database (table jos_users) anybody knows how to fix this?

Thanks in advance!