MCC: Cannot open .htpasswd file

We noticed that a lot of users had problems with the error message MCC: Cannot open .htpasswd file. In release 1.0 also the location of the file is reported, but some help can still be given. The files .htpasswd and .htaccess are used webserver to protect directory's of files on you webserver bij username and password. MCC creates these files for you and provides the means to manage them easily. There are two main reasons for this error message:

1. The path specified in one of your areas is incorrect. Use the browse function to select it.
2. You webbrowser is not allowed to created the two files in the specified path of the areas. To solve this set the rights to 777 for the directory or create empty files (.htpasswd and .htaccess) and set the rights to 666.

 No News Fader

If you did not specify the correct url to the fader.js (such as http://www.mysite.com/mcc/fader.js)  you will get no newsfader but a script error called "fade not found"

Areas on Windows

Members ho are using MCC on windows should be carefull using the directory in there path of an Area. Use /dir instead of d:/dir because it can cause the webserver to crach or sometimes MCC does not work.

@INC Error

On some server you will encounter a error:
Can't locate Settings.pl in @INC (@INC contains: c:/Perl/lib c:/Perl/site/lib .)
This comes because perl is not started in the same directroy as mcc.pl. To fix this problem open MCC.pl and change $pushlocalpath = 0; to $pushlocalpath=1; this should solve your problems.

Login Problems

Some webservers have problems with the perl password crypto method we use. This shows when some users can login and others cannot. Try using MD5 the password crypto method that you can set as admin in the preference and settings. When you use this method your perl version must contain a MD5 library.