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Why do all my websites now prompt for password?

L

lyew

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Hi

I just successfully upgraded from 7.5.6 to 7.6. Everything seems normal, but for some strange reason, every domain website now prompts for a username and password when they were unprotected previously. Is anyone experience similar problems?

I logged into the control panel and discovered that no directories have been password protected.
 
Check this...

...if they are ASP.NET applications then make sure that the default authentication hasn't been changed to windows.
 
Thanks, but they're not asp.net applications. They are all supposed to be annonymously accessible, but I keep getting a user name /password prompt with an unspecified realm. The funny I tried to do was to try to get plesk to create a protected URL, and when I entered the specific username/password, I got the second username/password prompt that I was getting all along.
 
Don't upgrade, just wait...

Stick to your older Plesk 7.5.6 version and you are good as for now, don't upgrade to 7.6. You will regred it.

Henry
 
You'll find most of your IIS permissions are totally messed up.

You can either repair these manually or go go back to 7.5.6.
 
Last weekend I paid SWsoft support to fix my server, I watched them manually fix the permission in all the domains... everything was working fine before upgrade, but as soon as the upgrade "successfully" finished all my domains were prompting me for password.
 
Coldfusion causes it

Hey guys,

this prompting for password is caused by Coldfusion, I installed plesk 7.6 on a fresh server with coldfusion and it changed a lot of permissions and it was asking me for pass even when I typed in my servers primary IP. I installed plesk 7.6 on a fresh windows server WITHOUT coldfusion and everything works without any problems.

So, if you are not using coldfusion or t is not too important to you to have it on your server, don't install it , wait till SWSOF will respond to this issue and let you know the solution.

Henry
 
I had the same problem, I was about to get real pissed, when this easy fix corrected the problem.

TO FIX PERMISSION PROBLEM AFTER UPGRADE:

Go to Plesk Reconfigurer, then go to Repair Installation, then check off Repair Virtual Hosts and complete it.

Should fix the problem.
 
New 7.6 release work with CF now?

Supposedly there is a new version of the 7.6 release that addresses the permission issue for servers that have cold fusion installed. Has anyone installed this upgrade recently and had it work as it should without screwing up permissions? Any other issues? I would like to upgrade mailenable, but need 7.6 for that
 
Yep, same thing happened to me. I am new to plesk and wanted to have a control panel but I highly regret installing Plesk. It has messed up everything and caused the w3wp.exe IIS process to bog down my server and have multiple instances running (which has never happened).

Would uninstalling this fix everything or am I going to have a major headache for the next long time. I would just format the O.S. my stuff is so messed up but that is just not an option.
 
That's a totally different issue than this thread is about, but to fix it, go into Plesk CP >Server > IIS Application Pool > Global Settings and select the second or third option. I don't think this removes any from having a dedicated application pool though. You would then have to go into each domain's setup and uncheck the box to use a dedicated application pool
 
Well, not different as I have the same password issues (resetting permissions has not fixed a few sites) but for the most part, manually fixing permissions did fix that problem.
I just ranted on without paying attention.

If I could get into the CP I would probably be able to fix most my problems.

Thanks for responding though.

Except, I realized this is an old topic that was revived. So, 7.6 is different than 7.6.1 which is the current version.
 
good to know that the latest plesk upgrade apparently still will not play nice with a cold fusion installation. I will continue to avoid it.
 
any one other than lord l ron hubbard gotten coldfusion to work on 7.6.1? Should I install cf first and then plesk? plesk then coldfusion? 7.6.1 notes say this is fixed but I am still getting the problem:

http://www.microtomacro.com/
https://www.microtomacro.com:8443/

I am not running enterprise, just pro.

when I uninstall coldfusion it then allows me back into plesk but then I get a directory cannot be found.



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