install problem: index.php loads, but login.php doesn't

I'm having some trouble getting gallery installed and working. I've
carefully followed the installation instructions and searched the FAQ,
but I'm still stuck.

When I try to go to the main gallery URL, index.php (details below), I
get a web page, which looks kind of OK. But when I click on [login],
the transaction fails.

The request causes the following entry to be printed in
/var/log/httpd/error_log:

[Mon Oct 21 10:11:56 2002] [notice] child pid 25613 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

Originally I thought that I had a problem with starting a session.
But I wrote a little test php that demonstrates that I can start a
session (details below).

Any ideas about how to proceed would be much appreciated.

-russ

php version: 4.1.2
OS: NetBSD 1.6
apache version: 1.3.27.
configuration URL: http://thelonious.dyndns.org/test.php
session test URL: http://thelonious.dyndns.org/test2.php
gallery URL: http://thelonious.dyndns.org/gallery/index.php

contents of test.php:

<? phpinfo() ?>

contents of test2.php:

<? session_start(); ?>
My session id is <?= session_id() ?>

Thanks for the reply. I am somewhat new to php and apache, so I sometimes can't tell what is
broken, and what is just misconfigured. For instance, I was not able to deduce that the message
that is printed to the apache error log is a sign that one of the apache processes itself died; I thought
that maybe apache forked an external program of some kind, which then segfaulted.

As for the question about why phpinfo() clains that PHP was compiled with --disable-session option.
This is because I used the NetBSD package system to build php. The session support is in a separate
NetBSD package, and is loaded dynamically in an so, which must be referenced in php.ini. I'm pretty
sure that I got php.ini configured correctly, because I was able to run a php program that displays
a session id.

I'm not familiar with the session diagnostic in the config wizard. I'll try to figure out how to run that,
and let you know what I find. I'll also try to upgrade php to the latest version, and see whether that
helps.

Once again, thanks for taking the time to reply.

-russ

I have upgraded to the latest and greatest PHP, and many things seem to be working now.
For instance, when I go to http://thelonious.dyndns.org/gallery/login.php I get a login page.

Also, I don't get any errors in the httpd error log. So I think that I'm over the hump on my original
problem. But now I can't remember how to log in!

What is the administrator user name? I think I remember the password that I supplied during installation
so I must have the user name wrong. I looked through the documentation, and I couldn't find the
administrator login name.

-russ

Welcome..have fun! The default admin username is 'admin'