I installed smf and i cant login

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[uzomaeze]

please my second site articlejoint.com has a forum www.articlejoint.com/forum  but surprisingly i can't login as an admin or even cant register for popel or my self
please what do i do to solve this proble
thanks

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[Harro]

Why can't you login?
What error message do you get?

[Owner]

humm.. this is wired, you are going to have to install anew forum i think, unless you can check your promitions in your cpanel(if you have one) i registerd an account but it saying im not registerd, the best thing to do is check out http://www.simplemachines.org they will know what to do, im not sure if we could help you here for that, your not having an error or enything, im thinking you are missing something in your cpanel.. talk to the techys at simple machines.. they will beable to tell you whats going on.,

[Harro]

If it's a new forum then installing it again probably won't fix it.
do try to upgrade your forum first.
You're still using SMF 1.1.2 and the latest version is 1.1.3

Download the large upgrade package from the SMF site, upload it to your host and run the upgrader.

[Owner]

meh.. i highly dought this will work.. i've just made a new forum, 1.1.2 i've upgraded now tho, but i was running yabb for the longest time.. :S i like it. but i dont. lol try what hero said, if this dont work, i will look in to it for you. try searching google as well, that always helps me  

[uzomaeze]

harro can you help me on this like good old times

[uzomaeze]

hi owner and harro can any one help me with this it still doesn't work be glad if there is some help

[miko]

You're still unable to log in as admin?
Did you check your username's permissions level in the mysql database?

Maybe if you explain in detail what errors you're getting ,etc....

[uzomaeze]

@ miko i have checked mysql database, checked and repaired and it still ask me to fill in username and password
and i don't know why it still does this please can you help

[miko]

Okay - so you are just unable to log in?  No one at all is able to log in?

Did you start out with smf or import from a different kind of forum to smf??

Without having an understanding of what's happening I can't help you.

[miko]

@ miko i have checked mysql database, checked and repaired and it still ask me to fill in username and password
and i don't know why it still does this please can you help

Disregard what I said above...

I'm just going to go out on a limb and assume it's a fresh install and your not importing from something else.  If it's a fresh install -

If you are just unable to log in:
Go to your msql database.  Look for the smf_members table.  Browse to view all members.  Look for admin. Go to edit the admin fields.
Change the password in the password field (there should be a hash code of some sort - just delete it and then put in a new password)
Save.

Go back to your forum and try to log in as admin with the new password.

but ...

If you are able to log in but not able to access your admin panel:
Go to your msql database.  Look for the smf_members table.  Browse to view all members.  Look for admin. Go to edit the admin fields.
THEN
look for this field: ID_GROUP  smallint(5) unsigned   
Make sure that the value is "1"
Save and then log back into your smf and try to access your admin panel.

I hope one of these options will be of help to you... It's just my best guess without more specific information about your site.

[uzomaeze]

@ miko please can you help me please be glad if you can do that for me please
thanks
uzoma eze

[uzomaeze]

please send me an email to send you my details

[uzomaeze]

done all u asked me to do still. ...

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