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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.

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

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

Regards,
Garvin

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

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

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!