Movable Type Won’t Let Me Stay Logged In (fix)

MovableType (4.01) hasn’t let me stay logged in all weekend. If I click any link on the system side, I get kicked back to the login page. Once I log back in, it takes make to the correct page. It’s worst at publishing entries, because you’ll get kicked out multiple times along the way. What … Continue reading “Movable Type Won’t Let Me Stay Logged In (fix)”

MovableType (4.01) hasn’t let me stay logged in all weekend. If I click any link on the system side, I get kicked back to the login page. Once I log back in, it takes make to the correct page. It’s worst at publishing entries, because you’ll get kicked out multiple times along the way.

What I eventually figured out is the mt_session table had gone bad on me. (It was marked as “in use” or corrupt depending on where I looked.” I dropped the table from the mt database, and was able to track down the specifications to recreate it

CREATE TABLE `mt_session` (
`session_id` varchar( 80 ) NOT NULL ,
`session_data` mediumblob,
`session_email` varchar( 255 ) default NULL ,
`session_name` varchar( 255 ) default NULL ,
`session_start` int( 11 ) NOT NULL default '0',
`session_kind` char( 2 ) default NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( `session_id` ) ,
KEY `session_start` ( `session_start` )
)

I’m hoping this turns up on google, because it took me forever to figure out the problem (and the right keywords to unlock the answers.)

2 thoughts on “Movable Type Won’t Let Me Stay Logged In (fix)”

  1. You’re a good man, Cubs.

    How are you liking MT4.01? Is it worth whatever they made you pay for it? Kim’s still at the last free version, but that’s okay, because she never blogs anyway.

  2. SixApart ended up coming with a personal (free) license, so I haven’t had to pay for 4.01. Which is great, because it hasn’t felt like something worth paying for.

    I have to save + publish, and then republish any entry on the CMLLBlog to show up, and there’s no error message to explain why I need that extra step. I like the idea of tagging and doing separate index pages, but I can’t actually use the tags as intended because of the load they put on the service. Spam is finally being handled okay, but MT was taking up so much CPU blocking spammers, I’ve had to talk my way out of being kicked off my server a couple of times.

    There’s some good stuff, but there’s stuff like the plug-ins still not working right so I can get that left article box working again or the template tag codes being changes again so I’d have throw out most of what I have now if I want to take advantage of anything new.

    I’ve heard WordPress isn’t much better. I think, if I didn’t have much non-blog material, I’d be better off just using a free blogger/typepad service and be done with it. Being your own system admin can get quite annoying…

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