cannot login as the admin after i installed serendipity

[Guest]

Hey Guys,

i just installed serendipity on a free webhoster with webspace....
with mysql and php.... well i installed it proberly, without errors....
i choosed a administrator username and a password....
with the easy install routine.... it worked well....
i deleted the .htaccess file to have access to the blog.... well... now if i want to login as the adminstrator... with the choosen password...

everytime serendipity says to me, that the user does not exist and is invalid??? i reinstalled the whole program and it is the same with another admin name + password...

i cannot find any information in the FAQ or in the documentation... what is wrong?

Thank you for your help,

SpecialAgent.

[zoran]

Did you try leaving the .htaccess file in place? AFAIK it is needed for proper s9y behaviour.

[garvinhicking]

You need to login with the username and password you entered in your Installation screen. Default is "John Doe" with password "john"!

Regards,
Garvin

[monilein]

I am sure, that we changed the password and username and that I entered them correctly. Nevertheless I tried the John Doe default password, but I couldn't log in either:

You appear to have entered an invalid username or password

[garvinhicking]

Did you maybe use foreign characters, umlauts or whatever for your username/password? Maybe you are not using the exact upper/lowercasing for your username?

Use a tool like phpMyAdmin to chcek your serendipity_authors DB table. Look what the username is there (login with the USER name, not the REAL name!) and check if the password column is not empty.

Regards,
Garvin

[Moni]

Thanks for your help!

We fixed the problem. There was something mixed up in the database after the first istallation. After a reset of the database and a new installation, it worked.

thanks!