okay, i've installed. now what?

By huntaub on 18 Jun 2006 at 19:16 UTC

I can't login to my admin account or create a new acoount. (don't get the email)
Please Help!

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More info would be useful

ninetwenty commented 18 June 2006 at 19:35

More information would be useful, such as what version of Drupal you've installed, what OS you've installed on, what version of PHP you have, what error messages you are getting, etc.

With Drupal 4.7 it doesn't matter about the email as when you create the first account you should have been able to create a password before the email was sent.

One thing you can check is the contents of the database and see if your first user has been created by querying the user table with:

SELECT * FROM users;

sorry

huntaub commented 18 June 2006 at 22:24

i was in a rush typing this so i didn't get finished.
i am running 4.7
on linux inastalled with fantastico

i tried loging in with the username and password i installed with but it doesn't work.

is this enough?

no its not, you need to more

stevecrozz commented 19 June 2006 at 01:14

no its not, you need to more clearly describe your problem and whatever messages you receive and you also need to reassure us that you've read and followed the documentation closely. If you have done that, tell us exactly how far you've gone through the steps and at what point you saw your first problem.

If you really want help you should probably scrap this whole post and try again with a more specific question.

Quick & dirty

dman commented 19 June 2006 at 05:18

Rather than troubleshoot, (it can be done, but that requires fiddling) -

Drop database.
Start again. Install fresh database.
View front page.
Register new user (email doesn't matter)
This takes you to admin first login.
Change password there.
Proceed.

Or search on "reset administrator password" or something in the forums.

.dan.
http://www.coders.co.nz/

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