drupal configuration fails to create initial account
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Sat Sep 22 06:02:50 UTC 2007
(it's not clear that this is really a fedora test issue, but it's
the first time i've tried to configure drupal and it's happening on my
test system so i figured i'd try here first.)
i'm trying to set up drupal on my fully-updated f8t1 system. after
installing the appropriate rpms, creating the mysql database,
uncommenting the appropriate lines in /etc/httpd/conf.d/drupal.conf
and restarting apache, i can browse to http://localhost/drupal, where
i get the configuration screen.
i fill in the name of the backend database i created earlier, as
well as the mysql username and password i created to administer it,
tell it to configure, and that appears to work: "Drupal installation
complete." (in mysql, i verify that the backend database has been
filled in with the appropriate tables, so that looks good. in
particular, i check the "users" table from the database, and it has a
single "NULL" entry since i haven't created any drupal accounts yet.)
back at the browser, i now continue on the the new site, "Welcome to
your new Drupal website", where instruction number one is to create my
new administrator account. i click on that, where i'm prompted for a
username and e-mail address. i fill that in with "rday" and
"rpjday at mindspring.com", but i'm not prompted for a password to assign
to account anywhere, which will become an issue shortly.
i click "Create new account", and am immediately presented with a
screen, "Access denied, You are not authorized to access this page."
um ... ok, should i have expected that? i've received no email at my
selected email address, and i certainly can't log in under that
account since i have no idea what the password for it is (i wasn't
prompted for one, remember?)
if i go into mysql, i can see that the "users" table in the drupal
database now has a second entry, with
uid: 1
user: rday
pass: 80c13bca024d370507d4284ca60229bc
mail: rpjday at mindspring.com
am i supposed to know what that encrypted password represents? at
this point, i can't log into drupal, no matter what i do. at what
point did this process go horribly wrong for me? thanks.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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