daveatfraud

xknown, thanks but I found it. It was the previously known problem caused by a blank line in wp-config.php. In my case, it was at the beginning of the file. It’s amazing how long I can stare at something like that and not see it. I’m up and running now so I *just* need to come up with some content.

Really weird the way a blank line in a config file can cause a totally unexpected error (can’t log in due to a cookies problem). I would have expected something more drastic (nothing works) or something related to the information in the file (e.g., the MySQL error).

Cheers,
Dave

Found what was causing the “duplicate MySQL functions” problem. I had manually added a reference to mysql.so in php.ini before I realized that the PHP-MySQL rpm wasn’t even installed. No complaints from PHP now but I still can’t login as admin.

Cheers,
Dave

Ran into the subject problem with WP 2.3.1 and Firefox 1.5. I tried the suggested alternate wp-login.php and got a blank screen instead of the previous error message.

Edit: Found the blank screen problem (don’t ask). Back to getting the “Cookies required” error.

Installation is a new install on CentOS 4.5. PHP version is PHP 4.3.9 and MySQl version is 4.1.20. I also had some problems with getting php working with MySQL. I eventually realized that the PHP-MySQL rpm was not installed and installed it. That got the configurator working but php now complains about a bunch of duplicate MySql functions that fail to register. Not sure if this is a separate problem or is causing the behavior I noted above.

Cheers,
Dave