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SamHill232 · 2016-10-28 02:39:01

Hi,

I am new to php, MySQL and Piwigo. I have a site hosted by Dreamhost. I downloaded Piwigo last night and successfully uploaded photos. When I tried to log in today, my access was denied. I clicked the "Forgot Password" link on Piwigo and entered my email but never received an email. I registered a new user and never received an email on that new email address. I finally went to my SQL database and through phpmyadmin. My password showed up as something like "$P$G8wGKSqfQje3TEGGjPSlbR2w59I1PV0" when I had originally made my password something much, much easier!! I tried to reset my password directly through phpmyadmin. So far, nothing is working. I can see the Piwigo site but since I made all of the photo private (for now) I can't see the photos because I cannot log into Piwigo as the administrator. What can I do?

Here's everything I know:

Piwigo version: 2.7.4
PHP version: Not sure?
MySQL version: 4.6.4
Piwigo URL: http://winkandsmirk.com/photos/

flop25 · 2016-10-28 08:41:01

Hello
You can search on the forum [Forum, post 162792 by ddtddt in topic 26475] Can't login to my Piwigo then fix your email config issue with the help of your hosting

SamHill232 · 2016-10-28 18:22:10

Hi,

Thanks for the link. But I don't know what is meant by "md5" function. Would you mind providing some further instruction for a newbie? I have contacted my host as well. Thanks.

SamHill · 2016-10-28 21:34:56

Ok. I figured out where/how to set the Md5 function. But in my SQL database (going through PHP admin), I have reset the passwords for all of my users. None of them are the 32 digit monstrosities and none of them will log me into Piwigo. Please help.

flop25 · 2016-10-28 21:41:55

What are you trying to do exactly?
And FYI storing unencrypted passwords is a severe and basic security flaw

SamHill232 · 2016-10-28 22:43:07

Nevermind. I have figured it out now through trial and error (or flaws, I suppose). I am not storing unencrypted passwords. I was simply trying to figure out how all of this works. All I wanted to do was to log in to Piwigo as the administrator but the log in screen would not accept my password, of which I was 100% certain. I would type my user name and password and it would tell me the password was "invalid" every time (and from what I can tell on this forum, I am not the only person who has ever had this issue - but the resolutions might as well have been in another language to me). I have figured it out now. As I said, I am new to all of this and a lot of the advice on this forum is beyond my basic knowledge at this point. I didn't know what the Md5 function was, much less how it worked (or what purpose it served). It is helpful, to someone like me, if the answer is provided in step-by-step instructions with some actual explanations. But maybe my knowledge is too basic for this forum. If so, I apologize if I have wasted anyone's time. In the interim, I have "Googled" and found the step-by-step instructions and explanations I needed. Now I have successfully logged in to Piwigo as the administrator. Thanks for at least getting me started with the Md5 reference.

boatwake · 2016-12-07 02:53:37

Unfortunately, I'm now having the same problem. I'm able to login as a normal user, but no longer able to login with my admin password that I too am 100% confident is correct. Could you please post what you learned Googling the issue and/or post a link that describes how to fix the problem. Thanks

flop25 · 2016-12-07 11:31:10

flop25 wrote:
Hello
You can search on the forum [Forum, post 162792 by ddtddt in topic 26475] Can't login to my Piwigo [...]

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