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[ming]

Hi,
I recently installed cmsmakesimple, but I could not login from admin page. I am pretty sure I was using correct username and password. When I type them into login form, it didn't show any error message, just simplely keep me staying at login page. Does anyone know how fix this problem?

Cheers
Ming

[Pierre M.]

Do you have a local install or have you installed at a provider ?
Windows, Linux, other ? version ?
Apache, Lighttpd, other ? version ?
What about the database ? soft, version, creation procedure...
Which PHP ?
Which CMSms version ? Which install mode ?
Anything else that could help somebody telediagnose your problem ?

PM

[jaybird]

I'm having the same problem.

Installed on a windows platform
Apache
MySQL db
PHP 4.1
V 1.0.4
Used the installer

I can see by browsing this forum that this is not a unique problem, yet nobody seems to have an answer for it.

[Pierre M.]

Please describe a bit more what the "same problem" is.
Have you installed sample content ? If yes, can you browse it in the front end ? Is your problem limited to the back end ?
PM

[jaybird]

The problem is logging into the admin panel. The front end displays the sample content correctly. When trying to log into the admin panel, I simply get returned to the log in screen without any displayed errors.

[Pierre M.]

"without any displayed errors" : strange.
Are PHP sessions not disabled ? DoES your browser accept session cookies ?
You may try to reset the main password :
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg16270
Pierre M. (edit:typo)

[jaybird]

I'm not sure about the sessions setting.

Cookies are allowed

Resetting the Pword changed nothing.

It still does it.

[Pierre M.]

I'm sort of out of ideas. Why don't Windows install "just work" ?

Please check (I don't know how, see php.net) the sessions setting.
If it is a remote install, check your FTP log. See FTP transferts failures in the forum...
Are you sure IIS is disabled or uninstalled ?
Last idea : check file names and paths in config files likes config.php (inside CMSms). May be Windows has D:\the\path where unix has /mountpoint/the/path and beware the case.

Hope this helps.

Pierre M.

[tsw]

There is also a bug report about the installer allowing some characters to username which wont work. (IIRC - was one of them)

not sure if it helps with this situation tho...