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[ninabarley]

I just installed Serendipity today, under a domain hosted by 1and1.com
I recorded all the user name, database name, password data when I set up Serendipity, but when I try to go into blog administration for Serendipity, it says I have an "invalid user id or password". I have tried all the other passwords associated with my domain as well, and none of them work.
Can someone please help me figure out how to get in to modify my blog? Right now, the way it defaulted, I can't even post a new entry...
Thank you,
Nina

Some of the specifics are:
Database name: db284480984
Host name: db1042.perfora.net
Version MySQL4.0

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Did you maybe use special characters (umlauts) in your password? On some servers, due to UTF-8 encoding this could lead to invalidly stored characters that cannot match the password properly.

If you know how to use phpMyAdmin, you could browse the serendipity_authors DB table and set a new MD5 encoded password there. Else, you could simply delete all serendipity_* db tables and the serendipity_config_local.inc.php file, and then you can reinstall serendipity and pick a new username and/or password (using no special characters).

HTH,
Garvin

[ninabarley]

Thank you for your reply.
I didn't use any special characters (just numbers and letters) and even when I went into the author db and typed in the userid/password listed there, it didn't let me log on. I also tried adding a new user and specifying the user id/password but that one didn't work either. I don't know what's going on with it...

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

What do you mean with "typed in the userid/password" there? What exactly did you do?

In the end, you should use phpmyadmin, go to "serendipity_authors", brwose the table, click on the edit pencil for the row of the serendipit account name you created, and in the phpmyadmin edit screen enter a new passwor din the "password" column and choose the dropdown "MD5" on the left of it. Then save, and then you should be able to log into serendipity with that username and password.

Regards,
Garvin