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2003-03-05
2003-09-07
  • Sven Oostenbrink

    Hi there,

    Im having a very weird problem with admin login (or author login). I really want to do something with your work, but I cant. I would appreciate it alot if you could help me with this.

    the thing is, I CANT login under admin.user/pass  admin/phpwebsite does not work. I tried it at my home computer, nothing, work computer, nothing, a friend tried it, nothing.. I simply can not login as admin.

    Then, I tried to tweak the author database a little. I changed the name/pass for admin/admin (pass obviously coded with the MD5 function) but that didnt work either, even though the user/pass really was admin admin..

    I tried to put user/pass with plain text in the database, and ripped out all md5 functions in all scripts, didnt work either.

    so something is obviously wrong. Now the weird part.. yesterday, at my work I just tried again, for fun (clean install, no modifications to scripts) to login with admin/phpwebsite and.. it worked!!! then I used Edit Admins in the admins menu to change the password for admin user, and ever since I can login at my work!! but I still cant at home. I really dont understand any of this.

    you guys have ANY idea what is wrong here? I dont have that much experience with PHP yet so its kinda difficult for me to go through all the code yet..

    some extra info:
    my home compu is winXP pro platform, tried PHPDEV 4.23 and 5, work compu is Win2000 pro platform, tried 4.23 and 5, and my friend has XP pro as well, tried 4.23 and 5 as well.

    thanks in advance,

    Sven Oostenbrink

     
    • Tom Sound

      Tom Sound - 2003-05-01

      Hello Im from Germany and excuse me when I understand sonething wrong.

      User: root
      Password: admin

      not anything else

      And if you cann loggin anyway then change the config.inc.php in the phpmyadmin folder!
      You must set your real UserName or bach to "root" Passwort ""

      I hope I could help you...

      Greatings from Germany
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    • Wayne Watkins

      Wayne Watkins - 2003-09-07

      login will not work unless you edit your php.ini
      and set register_globals to ON

      From a security standpoint this is NOT the best Idea......but it does work.

      I have seen other fixes...but i use this one because it's fast and easy.....and I pull my internet connection when running phpDev....so security is a non-issue

       

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