Admin logins failing

[chriscroome]

Hi

I have a development Etherpad instance that has been upgraded from v2.5.0 to v2.5.3 and the admin logins have stopped working, at the /admin/login URL I have the login form but all attempts to login return a white on red "Login failed" box at the top right of the screen.

I have tried setting the password to something very simple in /home/etherpad/sites/etherpad/settings.json:

 "users": { "admin": { "is_admin": true, "password": "admin" } }

But nothing works, the instance is run via a systemd unit file at /etc/systemd/system/etherpad.service containing:

# Ansible managed [Unit] Description=Etherpad-lite, the collaborative editor. After=apache2.service mariadb.service Requires=apache2.service mariadb.service [Service] Type=simple User=etherpad Group=etherpad WorkingDirectory=/home/etherpad/sites/etherpad Environment=NODE_ENV=production APIKEY=/home/etherpad/sites/etherpad/APIKEY.txt ExecStart=pnpm run prod --loglevel debug Restart=always StartLimitInterval=60 StartLimitBurst=10 StandardOutput=append:/home/etherpad/logs/etherpad.log StandardError=append:/home/etherpad/logs/etherpad.error.log [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target # vim: syntax=systemd

The Apache reverse proxy config:

 <Location "/"> ProxyPreserveHost on ProxyPass "http://127.0.0.1:9001/" "retry=0" "timeout=30" ProxyPassReverse "http://127.0.0.1:9001/" </Location> <Location "/socket.io"> ProxyPass "ws://127.0.0.1:9001/socket.io" "upgrade=websocket" "timeout=30" ProxyPassReverse "ws://127.0.0.1:9001/socket.io" </Location> ProxyRequests Off ProxyVia On ProxyPreserveHost On <Proxy "*"> Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All </Proxy>

The instance is using a MariaDB database, I have been restarting the systemd service after editing the settings.json file.

Does anyone have any suggestions regarding how to debug and/or fix this?

Thanks!