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unknown admin after moving site
hmmm i seem to come across this problem often. i made the site on the localhost, and then i moved the directories and database to the live server. then the user admin is not recognized, so i run the mysql query in the faq to reset it.
the credentials don’t work, and then when you go to reset the password, it says “unknown author: admin”
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Re: unknown admin after moving site
I’ve had this before…from memory, I did a ‘forgot password’ from /textpattern/ (rather than a MySQL hack) and that emailed me a new password. This assumes, of course, that the email address you use for your user is valid and you have access to it.
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Re: unknown admin after moving site
yeah in this scenario, the forgot password attempt is what triggers the unknown author message.
now what i’m wondering is: maybe the php version on my xampp is different than my host? i’m not home to check it right now but i think i’ll have to start looking at some sort of compatibility issues.
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Re: unknown admin after moving site
Ah, my apologies – I misread your question and skipped the part where you’d already done what I suggested…oops!
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well it looks like this is the same solution every time, i’m just not clueing into what’s happening.
i’ve been advised in the past to make sure i do a fresh install on the live server side, and then after dropping the tables it works. so something is happening in the install process that’s “priming” the database from what i can tell.
it just doesn’t make sense otherwise because it feels like i’m doing the same thing over again when i just directly move the local database to the live server. but no, you have to do a dummy install first.
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