By LucyInTheSky on

I am a very new user and have struggled to create the first five basic elements of my new site. Now my Login box has disappeared and I am locked out of my fledgling site. I’m not sure what caused it as I had fiddled with Blocks, Permissions and what appears where on which pages beforehand and I suspect I turned it off somehow. No back-up copies of previous steps exist. Have read forums and tried domain name/?q=admin but get “Access denied” screen. It seems I have to do something via PHPMyAdmin but I am totally lost with everything I see there. Can anyone help in plain English?

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bwv commented

This is a common problem for new drupal users and can be very frustrating. Please try this:

domain name/?q=user

With clean URLs enabled, try this:

domain name/user

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LucyInTheSky commented

Hello, thank you so much for responding.
My site is on http://www.fishingforafriend.net/drupal-6.3 and so I would need to add ?q=user or admin after the last slash, if I understand this right. I did enable clean URLs. Neither of these two things works.

Is there an alternative?

LucyInTheSky

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jnvsor commented

http://www.fishingforafriend.net/drupal-6.3/user

is fine for me...

if not, try writing your own temp login script... stick this in an html file and fill in quickly...

<form id="user-login" method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8" action="http://www.fishingforafriend.net/drupal-6.3/user">

<input id="edit-name" class="form-text required" type="text" tabindex="1" value="" size="60" name="name" maxlength="60"/><br>

<input id="edit-pass" class="form-text required" type="password" tabindex="2" size="60" maxlength="128" name="pass"/><br>

<input id="form-7f1dde67f6144640dc0d2a7c73b1be77" type="hidden" value="form-7f1dde67f6144640dc0d2a7c73b1be77" name="form_build_id"/>

<input id="edit-user-login" type="hidden" value="user_login" name="form_id"/>

<input id="edit-submit" class="form-submit" type="submit" tabindex="3" value="Log in" name="op"/>

</form>

You need this if you're gonna make a website

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LucyInTheSky commented

Hello "gettingpissed",

I didn't put in .../user but the name of the user, eg. admin.
You are right, as ..../user I get in - what a relief!
Better repair the disappeared Login now. Many thanks for replying.

LucyInTheSky

jnvsor’s picture

jnvsor commented

Happens all the time... that and, losing your password...

Just in case the inevitable happens, if you want to reset your password, go to phpMyAdmin > yourDatabase > User > edit your account and use md5 incryption for the password...

You need this if you're gonna make a website

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LucyInTheSky commented

Thanks for TWO tips then!

LucyInTheSky

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john777 commented

Hello gettingpissed, i am also having this problem i am new to drupal and now don't know what to do, where can i add this code in my drupal?

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marea01 commented

Going to /user does not work. I have "Login" and "Request new password" links, but no text boxes for login appear underneath anymore. I am using a fresh install of the Danland theme, meaning that I just replaced the entire theme directory with and original that has not been changed (so the problem must be with a drupal or database setting.) Please help! Thanks