Hi all,
I appreciate this topic has been covered many times, and believe me, I've read and tried all the potential fixes I could find but all to no avail.
This is a fresh install of Drupal 4.7.6 with no mods to session.inc or user.module. When I try to create the
first user ('admin' in my case) I always get the access denied error.
Moving sess_regenerate() from user_login_submit to user_authenticate has no effect.
Commenting out register_shutdown_function('session_write_close'); in sess_read in session.inc also has no effect.
Deleting cookies and refreshing has no effect.
Adding session_write_close() to the end of index.php had no effect.
Altering sess_write in session.inc had no effect.
I don't have ZoneAlarm installed but I did disable the router firewall functionality without any effect.
By default I use Firefox 2.0.0.3, but using IE 6 or 7 has no effect.
The site is with a hosting provider (RM in the UK) and it appears that PHP is not configured as a module but according the phpinfo() details the ini settings are consistent with what Drupal requires.
The details of the system in a step-by-step fashion are given below. Apologies that they are long, but I want to try and give as much debug information as possible.
Website address: www.cassioburyinfants.herts.sch.uk/test/
Drupal version: 4.7.6
PHP version: 4.3.9
MySQL version: 4.1.20