Installed properly.
During installation, it doesnot prompt for top-level administration username/password.
When i visit /moodle/admin , it gives an error tht you should be the admin to use this page.
when i loggin through Admin user n Password, it doesnt loggin in the admin area but logs in students area.
Please help
Raheel;
Same occurred to me. Martin Dougiamas has designed an enticing site but this bug of not being able to set admin during install seems to occur infrequently and frustrates us.
I tried editing the actual database for the admin and it still did not login to the admin page. It appears to not be authenticating correctly to the database table 'user'.
I wonder if it is only those people with e-smith install that this is occurring to. Let me know of any solutions please.
Same occurred to me. Martin Dougiamas has designed an enticing site but this bug of not being able to set admin during install seems to occur infrequently and frustrates us.
I tried editing the actual database for the admin and it still did not login to the admin page. It appears to not be authenticating correctly to the database table 'user'.
I wonder if it is only those people with e-smith install that this is occurring to. Let me know of any solutions please.
Please check that you are using PHP 4.1.0 or later (Moodle requires this). Several other people with this problem were in fact using older versions. If you are too, please post back.
Moodle 1.0.1 will be out soon - it includes some checks for this situation and prints appropriate feedback. The recent nightlies and CVS also contain this new code.
Moodle 1.0.1 will be out soon - it includes some checks for this situation and prints appropriate feedback. The recent nightlies and CVS also contain this new code.
but what does it need from 4.1.0 or later? which modules? I use 4.2.1 and still get a serious error while creating an admin. With as well the downloaded 1.01 version as will with the cvs version (28 aug 2002)
Thanks.
Thanks.
The relevant feature of 4.1.0 in this case is the global $_SESSION variable which doesn't exist in earlier versions.
What is the 'serious error', Gerhard? Please be helpful and describe it in detail - or better still drop your database tables and email me a URL so I can go through the setup on your machine myself (only one person so far has offered to do this and the problem in that case was PHP 4.0.6).
What is the 'serious error', Gerhard? Please be helpful and describe it in detail - or better still drop your database tables and email me a URL so I can go through the setup on your machine myself (only one person so far has offered to do this and the problem in that case was PHP 4.0.6).
Hmm.. this is weird.. went to the admin page to check the url and send it and now it does give me the user-profile for the admin. Strange as url's with a ? shouldn't be cached, but that's the only reason I can think off.
Anyhow, as it seems the problem solved itself and after playing with the software for a while the only thing I can say is wow!
Thanks!
Anyhow, as it seems the problem solved itself and after playing with the software for a while the only thing I can say is wow!
Thanks!
I've installed last Moodle version and when I try open admin page I find: "SERIOUS ERROR: Could not create admin user record !!!". I use PHP Version 4.2.2 and installation process seems ok, but I have not seen a page to insert admin data.
Moodle creates a dummy record for the admin user, and THEN lets you edit it.
In your installation, the dummy admin user could not even be inserted into the database.
This would generally indicate something seriously wrong with your database set-up. Possibly there is some permissions problem that is preventing your database user/password writing to the user table in your database. I would check that first.
Did you get any errors at all when Moodle was setting up the tables?
If you get really stuck, please drop all tables and email me your URL.
Cheers,
Martin
In your installation, the dummy admin user could not even be inserted into the database.
This would generally indicate something seriously wrong with your database set-up. Possibly there is some permissions problem that is preventing your database user/password writing to the user table in your database. I would check that first.
Did you get any errors at all when Moodle was setting up the tables?
If you get really stuck, please drop all tables and email me your URL.
Cheers,
Martin
There's no problem yet 
I use Mozilla browser, and I drop my database and starts installation process again with Internet Explorer. I don't know what's happening, but installation worked OK, and I can set up admin user data. Perhaps it was only HTML problems? I don't know.
I doubt it could be Mozilla (it's my main browser too) unless you had cookies disabled for that site, but I'm glad the problem has resolved itself. Very strange. Perhaps it is a caching thing.
Hi,
when I've attempt access to admin page, I've automatically redirected to page user.php. How to resolve this inconvenience?
Thanks, icarused
when I've attempt access to admin page, I've automatically redirected to page user.php. How to resolve this inconvenience?
Thanks, icarused
That probably means you haven't defined an admin user yet - Moodle is asking you to set up an admin user.
Hi,
I've followed your instruction: now, moodle, work excellently.
Many Thanks for your help,
Di Ji
I've followed your instruction: now, moodle, work excellently.
Many Thanks for your help,
Di Ji
By the way, you can't edit the passwords manually in the table as they are stored encrypted.
I got the same error when first I installed Moodle in a subdirectory under the web-root. When I created a virtual namebased server in Apache and gave it a name in DNS it all worked fine.
Martin has solved it, downloaded his nightly 25/8/02 and it worked a charm.