Hi,
I have now installed moodle for the 5th time along with easyphp1.7.
i have followed all the instructions to the letter, I now know them of by heart!
When I finally get to the moodle login page it asks me to login, which I wish to do to administer the site. When I enter the id and password I have set up in config.php I am given an error invalid login please try again. My id is correct as is my password. suggestions please.
Dave
ID and password is not setup in config.php - you should be ask in the install process to fill in user details about admin - here you give your password to admin user.
It once happened to me too, I was not asked about the admin user at all, the problem was in permissions to moodledata directory - apache (www user) could not write to it (Moodle stores sessions there...).
It once happened to me too, I was not asked about the admin user at all, the problem was in permissions to moodledata directory - apache (www user) could not write to it (Moodle stores sessions there...).
At last that seems to have solved my problem. I have had allsorts of suggestions re passwords, but it was permissions. Thanks my sanity is intact.
Dave
Dave
Dear Petr,
I thought that solved my problem, but it only solved it the once. Permissions on my data directory are to allow any user do anything. when I try again to login I get the same error as before "invalid login please try again". I have checked my config.php and dbuser = root, password is blank.
Any more help please as I have now nearly a full Moodle setup with courses and resources. I really dont want to go through it all again.
Cheers
Dave
I thought that solved my problem, but it only solved it the once. Permissions on my data directory are to allow any user do anything. when I try again to login I get the same error as before "invalid login please try again". I have checked my config.php and dbuser = root, password is blank.
Any more help please as I have now nearly a full Moodle setup with courses and resources. I really dont want to go through it all again.
Cheers
Dave
I'm just now having the same headache of not being able to login as admin, with the power to edit the courses. Just spent about 2 hours changing passwords of the username admin, browsing around my moodledata and the database itself.... all with no success. My index page displays, but every time I log in successfully as admin, the index.php loads, but I do not have editing access.
If you learn how to solve this new problem Dave, please let me know at Marc@RealHope.com
If you learn how to solve this new problem Dave, please let me know at Marc@RealHope.com
Hi,
I have not yet found what the problem is, but I am pretty sure it has something to do with permissions. I have just done a clean install on two machines. one allows me to login the other kicks me out when I try to log in as Admin.
Will keep trying
I have not yet found what the problem is, but I am pretty sure it has something to do with permissions. I have just done a clean install on two machines. one allows me to login the other kicks me out when I try to log in as Admin.
Will keep trying
O.K..... I'm a dolt of some sort... but maybe this will help others with password problems. Just to add to my description above I'll say that not only did I not have editing privileges but I was not logged in to the site, even as a visitor would be. So now my boneheaded mistake.
I had changed my privacy setting in my Netscape 7.1 to test other aspects of the Miva on my site. Somehow, I either changed the cookie acceptance policy for my browser for my own moodle site, or I could have made some global changes in my acceptance policy re: cookies for my browser. I kept checking my Netscape Preferences:Privacy & Security settings, with no avail in terms of my non login problems as admin on my moodle..... very frustrating.
THEN, I looked over my whole menu for Netscape and found under Tools another submenu called Cookie Manager and there I changed my policy while I was on the moodle login page. THAT WORKED!
I'm sure this doesn't solve all probs re: admin passwords, but it was a big problem for me... and I thought I'd share the solution. I look forward to more great things happening with Moodle.
Marc Sadoff
I had changed my privacy setting in my Netscape 7.1 to test other aspects of the Miva on my site. Somehow, I either changed the cookie acceptance policy for my browser for my own moodle site, or I could have made some global changes in my acceptance policy re: cookies for my browser. I kept checking my Netscape Preferences:Privacy & Security settings, with no avail in terms of my non login problems as admin on my moodle..... very frustrating.
THEN, I looked over my whole menu for Netscape and found under Tools another submenu called Cookie Manager and there I changed my policy while I was on the moodle login page. THAT WORKED!
I'm sure this doesn't solve all probs re: admin passwords, but it was a big problem for me... and I thought I'd share the solution. I look forward to more great things happening with Moodle.
Marc Sadoff