By zappa81 on

Hi everybody,

Just installed Drupal locally using MAMP on OS X, when i try and login with my drupal name and password it comes up with an error saying,

'Sorry, unrecognized username or password. Have you forgotten your password?'

Anyone know why this is? Tried looking on the forums but couldn't find any solutions.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

The most likely reason is what the message says. If the username/password which you are typing seem to be correct, then maybe you made a mistake the first time when you specified them during installation.

Try this: http://drupal.org/node/377076#comment-1267908

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zappa81 commented

you're right, it was my error, thanks for pointing me to the fix.

alibasham’s picture

alibasham commented

Kindly help -
This is the second step (right after selecting language (English).
I am trying to log in to the local host during installation of drupal 6.1.
I need to log in to create the database.

but it dies not logs me in.

I am using the user name root & the password is the one which i created while installing apache.

Pls note that i am installing it on my home pc - windows are xp sp2.

i dowloaded the installation package today from "http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93507"
this is the installer package dge (Apache2.2 PHP5 MySQL5).
my email is "basham98@hotmail.com"

Kindly help!

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einsteinsboi commented

1. Have you already created the database and user? Do you have phpmyadmin installed? You can use that to easily create and manage your databases. You need to already have a database created and a user with all privileges added to that database. Since you're using localhost, your user will most likely be root. You then need to enter the name of the database and user you created at this step where you're getting stuck.

I would suggest if you're pretty new to this that you use WAMP as I find it to be a little friendlier, and it comes with phpmyadmin installed

2. Make sure that you go in your sites/default folder, make a copy of the default.settings.php file and rename the copy to settings.php, so that you have two files, settings.php and default.settings.php.

The install should go smoothly from there.

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alibasham commented

Thank you for the responce!

I have reinstalled the apache server program and now it is working!

Yeah i am new to computers and this is the first software after ms office and utorrent :).

I am sure that with this friendly and expert group i will get to learn a lot.

Thanks again!