This is my 1st experience of Drupal so please be kind. I have installed Drupal 4.7 on my shared hosted website. I changed settings.php in 2 places as required ie

$db_url = 'mysql://name:password@localhost/databasename';

&

$base_url = 'http://www.example.com';

I then enterd my url in Firefox and was taken to the main screen
I clicked on the link 'create the first account' and entered a username and my blueyonder email address. I then clicked on 'Create new account'. This flipped the display back to the main screen with a message (sorry I didn't make an accurate note) that said 'Unauthorised'

I never did receive that email in my blueyonder mailbox.

I tried repeating 'create the first account' , this time using an email address for the site I was on and I received that ok. I checked the header details and the 'from' address was blank and there was mention of 'nobody' as the sender. I presume, from reading other threads on Drupal,that blueyonder regards this mail as suspicious and just ignores it.

The upshot is that I can't administer this installation so do I have to uninstall and start again?
If so, how do I uninstall?

Apologies for being longwinded about what is probably obvious to you veterans.

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Dave Sandilands’s picture

Dave Sandilands commented

Should I have posted this in Forums rather than as an Issue?

Further background that may be of use:

Apache version 1.3.34 (Unix)
MySQL version 4.1.18-standard
PERL version 5.8.7
Kernel version 2.6.9-34.ELsmp
Machine Type x86_64

PHP version 5.0.5
PHP info :

Build Date Apr 29 2006 16:13:58
Configure Command './configure' '--enable-pic' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--prefix=/usr' '--with-xml' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--with-curl' '--with-dom' '--with-dom-xslt' '--with-dom-exslt' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--with-imap' '--with-imap-ssl' '--with-kerberos=/usr' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-mhash' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--with-mysqli' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--enable-discard-path' '--with-pear' '--with-pspell' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-ttf' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-zlib'
Server API Apache
Virtual Directory Support disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini
PHP API 20031224
PHP Extension 20041030
Zend Extension 220040412
Debug Build no
Thread Safety disabled
Zend Memory Manager enabled
IPv6 Support enabled
Registered PHP Streams php, file, http, ftp, compress.zlib
Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp, unix, udg

wellsy’s picture

wellsy commented

You can set the password by visiting the database using phpMyAdmin and browsing the 'users' table and then editing the user 1 'pass' by choosing FUNCTION >> MD5 and then enter your choice of passord and click 'Go'

Revisit the site and login as user 1 with the new password>>>should be good to go!

Dave Sandilands’s picture

Dave Sandilands commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Many thanks wellsy. That worked perfectly! You have saved me a lot of time and aggravation.