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3cellhosting · 08-23-2006

Hi Amanda

I am not a fan of phpBB so my experience with it is limited. I have used and installed many other boards though :)

Was the bulletin board a fresh install? Did you install manually or via Fantastico? Normally during an install you are asked to provide the admin name and password (often along with an email address so you can be emailed them in case you forget). Do you recall doing this?

If you cannot request the username and password to be sent to you then the only thing you can do is a fresh install. As this board was only installed yesterday you shouldn't be losing any large amounts of data. If anybody has posted on the board then I suggest taking a note of the details ready to re-input later.

If your database skills are up to it, save a copy, get any existing members to re-register on fresh install and then move their post contents to the new database.

Hope this helps

08-23-2006	#2 (permalink)
3cellhosting Forum Management Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Torquay, Devon, UK - Home of Fawlty Towers! Age: 50 Posts: 352	Re: Become admin on a phpbb forum on HTML website Hi Amanda I am not a fan of phpBB so my experience with it is limited. I have used and installed many other boards though :) Was the bulletin board a fresh install? Did you install manually or via Fantastico? Normally during an install you are asked to provide the admin name and password (often along with an email address so you can be emailed them in case you forget). Do you recall doing this? If you cannot request the username and password to be sent to you then the only thing you can do is a fresh install. As this board was only installed yesterday you shouldn't be losing any large amounts of data. If anybody has posted on the board then I suggest taking a note of the details ready to re-input later. If your database skills are up to it, save a copy, get any existing members to re-register on fresh install and then move their post contents to the new database. Hope this helps __________________ David www.3cellhosting.com preCharge ProjectNet Info Site Just when I thought I knew all the answers someone goes and changes the questions!