I installed PhpWiki using Fantastico, after striking out on the MySQL installation on another host.

But the admin password just doesn't work. I checked the admin.php file, and the wikiadmin and adminpasswd is set correctly.

So what's up?

Does it look for an encrypted version, or is the whole thing broken?

I don't know if this will helpsomeone but I ran http://www.website.com/wiki/passencrypt.php and put my password in there. It came back with an encrypted password which I copy/pasted it into my config.ini file and now my password works.

Looks like it doesn't work with a server set up with php_suexec

So you just have to apply the correct file permissions.
the starter script +xr
all other files +r
the uploads dir u+rwx

for 1.2.x similar, just that there is no upload

I also installed via Fantastico and can not get my admin log in to work.

I gather from reading here that this can't be fixed?

Is the only solution to uninstall and find something else?

Rik