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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