Can't log in to admin account

[RChadwick]

Immediately after installing, I try to log in with the user and password I specified during install, and it says it's wrong. I've deleted the directory and database, and reinstalled 3 times, with the same results. Caplock is off. To be sure, I copy and pasted my login info to a text file, and then pasted from it. I tried the 'Email my password' link, but it didn't work, likely because email isn't set up (I'm assuming I have to do that while logged in as admin.

Also, as I was installing, I used the name 'admin' for the admin account, and the install program gave some error, I think it said something about invalid name. Does this mean there's already an admin account?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

[jondaley]

It shouldn't have let you continue if you used the name "admin" as that is a blocked name (for historical reasons, I guess I've been thinking about removing that, or maybe even simply defaulting the username to admin during the installation, seems kind of silly to block that to me...)

But, as long as you typed in an email address during the installation, the forget password part should work. You can look in the database directly (using phpmyadmin or your host's control panel, etc) to find out what the username is (the relevant table is lt_users).
Note: If you make any changes to the table you will have to erase ./tmp/cache* in order for those changes to be seen.
You could change the password manually too, by setting to "
098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6" which corresponds to "test".

[RChadwick]

Thanks for the response, but I gave up on LifeType. It was the second MySQL blog I tried, and the second one I couldn't get working, so I decided I absolutely needed a flat file structure, and I went with Pivotx. So far, so good...

[jondaley]

I haven't looked into flat-file stuff before, other than I used blossom at one work place - how well do they perform with lots of queries? I suppose they can be cached just like mysql can.