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Hello

I've now got 7 sites up and running with cmsms, but have hit a new problem. I've installed it on a client's server (savusavu), and all reports were fine, but it refuses my username/ and or/password saying ''password/ username incorrect" for cmsms (not the database connetction, which is fine). So at first I figured human error, reinstalled and typed the username and password as slowly and accurately as i could - same problem... and a third time. I also got someone else to try it and it failed too.

Does anyone have any ideas?

A late reply, but hopefully it helps some others.

I just completed an install of 1.0.4 on a GoDaddy shared Linux host and had the same error -- couldn't login with my admin username and password, although I confirmed that it was correct.

To cut to the chase, my username contained special characters, which apparently PHP/MySQL could not use e.g., site-admin. So, I had to enter the database and change the username from 'site-admin' to siteadmin. Problem solved.

For those interested in my troubleshooting steps:
1. Turned on debug in config.php and attempted login. This confirmed that the original username was the problem.
2. Went to GoDaddy's host control panel and via phpMyAdmin and updated the username. The SQL syntax is:
    UPDATE `cms_users` SET username='newname' WHERE id=id#;
    WARNING: Make sure you understand the syntax and replace values properly.
3. Tested login. OK.
4. Turned off debug.
5. Continued with the last install steps.

@rhys :
May be your new server doesn't correctly handle PHP sessions ?
If you can browse the front end but not log in to the back end, double check server side cookies (with internet valid domain name) and sessions handling.
Pierre M.