can't log in to my admin

[ponch]

hello

I can't log in to my admin (only went through the initial install which went fine this is the first time trying to get back in). when i give it my user name and email address to get a new password, i get:

You did not mention email address at all!
If you have no clue about your password, leave a message in Pixelpost forum for help.

well, here i am posting! any suggestions how i could reset it or something?

thanks,

Ray

[ponch]

i've just realised that i may have messed up the databse that i installed on my server. i actually had a really hard time getting it installed, and rather stupidly tried to delete and re-upload my database (via FTP). i suspect this is a big no-no so maybe that's my problem. when i re-upped my database there were two files which were unable to be uploaded.

once again, any suggestions? there is a "database repair" button on my admin which i have pressed and it says it's done it.

[ponch]

could seomeone tell me what user name and password i am supposed to enter when i get to the admin page for my pixelpost? i just reinstalled and it didn't ask me to CREATE a username and password, so which one i it asking me for?

[Dkozikowski]

Did you remove the pixelpost database information?

If not then it was not overwritten.

I beleive pixelpost is set up to create tables if they do not exist so log into your database and "DROP" all the pixelpost tables and start the installation again.

[Dennis]

And database upload by FTP is impossible. The reason no password could be sent is because you first have to get into the admin to set the email address

[ponch]

thanks. i've done a few things:

1) i've dropped the pixelpost related databases from my database admin page (there were a few! hopefully i did i correctly)

2) deleted my pixelpost files and uploading and then installing

3) i've emailed yahoo (my providers) to ask them if somehow i can remove the mysql / database from my server and re-install, because i'm sure i've done irrepairable damage when i downloaded all the files and re-upped them. i guess what i'd like is to re-start :confused:

does this sound like the right course of action?

cheers

[austriaka]

if you would have done serious damage to your database, pixelpost wouldn't show up anything but a database error.

It sounds as if you have deleted some values in the config table, so pp cannot check the username/password correctly and won't find an email adress.
Have you tried with empty username/password acess? (This may work if config table columns are existing but being empty)

KArin