By rmarioni on

Hey there,

I've searched the forums and read the installation instructions over and over.

Problem: Cannot login first time

site: http://www.mysite.info/drupal/index.php
base_url: http://www.mysite.info/drupal (no trailing '/')
(modified settings.php for correct sql and base_url)
database installed cleanly
ISP hosted (fatcowL PHP 4.3.3)
ftp *contents* of drupal under root dir html accessible/drupal/
created 755 permissions on all dir from root/drupal on down

I seem to be baffled. Using Firefox 1.0.3 as my browser.

.htaccess was ftp'ed over also and under http://www.mysite.info/drupal/.htaccess
(.htaccess is unmodified).

Seem to be having trouble and know it is something simple. Any
insight or assistence would be greatly appreciated

Thanks much

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Adagio’s picture

Adagio commented

Hmm.. Have you registered? As it says on the frontpage until you've added content, the first account you create will be the administrator account.

rmarioni’s picture

rmarioni commented

Hi Adiagio
I click create first acct which is the admin acct and it redirects me back into the page. So, it appears I am unable to create initial admin account and login. strange.

Zen’s picture

Zen commented

Can you explain what you mean by "cannot login?..? Have you been able to create the admin account?

-K

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Quillem.com

rmarioni’s picture

rmarioni commented

appears that when I try to create an admin account, it appears to repopulate the same login page with username and password so that i cannot create first account or creat/login.

I went and deleted tables from mySQL and repopulated the DB and tried again to no avail. I chmod 755 on ALL dirs as well. just a bit baffled. i read and followed instructions very carefully...no trailing / on base_url, database looks good, etc.

any insight would be greatly appreciated...thanks a lot

Zen’s picture

Zen commented

Hi,

Not sure. Is the .htaccess the default Drupal file? Perhaps try removing it temporarily and see what happens. But I think it's a server issue, either with the htaccess or Apache itself.

http://www.marioni.info/drupal/

Typing that in results in:

http://www.marioni.info/drupal/index.php

which is rather odd. Try and make sure that apache accepts "index.php" as a default filename.

Let me know how you fare,
-K
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Quillem.com

smallfluffykat’s picture

smallfluffykat commented

Do you have cookies enabled? It sounds like you're correctly creating an account but Drupal/your browser is forgetting you should be logged in?