Become admin on a phpbb forum on HTML website

Amanda1981 · 08-23-2006

Hi

I've started a new website yesterday and I've just installed the forum today but I can't login as admin, I've tried all the logins I have on my website. I've made a new user now but I can't find where to give the user admin rights.
Please help.

Thanks, Amanda

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

Amanda1981 · 08-23-2006

Reinstalling worked, thanks a lot.

It was a fresh install btw but I guess that I made a mistake somewhere.

Amanda

imehesz · 08-23-2006

Hello, (and welcome)

on the other hand I never used anything else but phpBB (because of financial reasons) but I never had any problems with it that I couldn't resolve by myself. (or once with their tech support!) phpBB is a good program if you know what you are doing ;)

scoooooty · 08-24-2006

You could of just changed the passoword in the database. SMF (simple Machines Forums) Is what I use. It is also free and fairly easy to customize.

link: Simple Machines - Home of SMF: Free PHP and MySQL forum software

ScottHughes · 10-12-2006

You can just change the information in the database. Additionally, if you do a fresh-install and save the database, you don't need the users to re-register, because you can also import the user database.

08-23-2006	#1 (permalink)
Amanda1981 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Age: 27 Posts: 2	Become admin on a phpbb forum on HTML website Hi I've started a new website yesterday and I've just installed the forum today but I can't login as admin, I've tried all the logins I have on my website. I've made a new user now but I can't find where to give the user admin rights. Please help. Thanks, Amanda

08-23-2006	#2 (permalink)
3cellhosting Forum Management Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Torquay, Devon, UK - Home of Fawlty Towers! Age: 49 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!

08-23-2006	#3 (permalink)
Amanda1981 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Age: 27 Posts: 2	Re: Become admin on a phpbb forum on HTML website Reinstalling worked, thanks a lot. It was a fresh install btw but I guess that I made a mistake somewhere. Amanda

08-23-2006	#4 (permalink)
imehesz Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Age: 30 Posts: 258	Re: Become admin on a phpbb forum on HTML website Hello, (and welcome) on the other hand I never used anything else but phpBB (because of financial reasons) but I never had any problems with it that I couldn't resolve by myself. (or once with their tech support!) phpBB is a good program if you know what you are doing ;) __________________ -- iM

08-24-2006	#5 (permalink)
scoooooty Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Victoria Australia Age: 22 Posts: 360	Re: Become admin on a phpbb forum on HTML website You could of just changed the passoword in the database. SMF (simple Machines Forums) Is what I use. It is also free and fairly easy to customize. link: Simple Machines - Home of SMF: Free PHP and MySQL forum software __________________ www.tutocity.com - Free Website Templates And Tutorials - www.tutocity.com

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ScottHughes Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Age: 22 Posts: 460	Re: Become admin on a phpbb forum on HTML website You can just change the information in the database. Additionally, if you do a fresh-install and save the database, you don't need the users to re-register, because you can also import the user database. __________________ Online Book Club

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