I just upgraded from the 30 day trial to the paid corporate version.  I reloaded the database to the new install.  The install recognizes my username and email address when I reset, but the new password will not allow me to log in.

What can I do to log in?

Michael

latte02125, you can have EE send you a password reset.

Click on that link in the system folder, and as long as you can receive an email, you’ll be able to change it.

Yep. did that. it sends me the new password. AND, it does not work.  this is the problem.

Then that’s a different issue.

What do you mean “does not work”?

when I enter the new password, it tells me it is not valid.

Thread

There is some discussion in this thread about potential problems that sound similar to what you’re describing.

Does this help at all?

i’m not sure that applies for me.  I’m on mac using safari.

do you think it would have anything to do with that fact that I rename the system directory on my install but the sql is coming from the 30 day trial?

Not sure. How about you send me a link and I’ll try and register?

you can give it a try…. i just created a new account, but when I logged in, it broght me to the demo site.

http://www.babybloomermagazine.com/magazine/index.php/site/index/

OK, your settings are still reflecting the path to the older site. You’ll need to change them in a few places.

EEKB: How Do I Move EE to Another Server

Does that make sense?

I cannot do it because I cannot log in as admin.

I just re ran the sql query again and both usernames do not work.  I’ve done a lot of customizations on the 30 day trial and cant afford to loose that work.  There is definatey something wrong with the passwords. What can we do next?

I am sending you a PM with log in information for the trial site and my domain.

I’ve reinstalled the EE and this time I did not change my system directory name.  I then ran the sql query to transfer all the work I did from the trial site.
At first I thought it was not liking my name and password, but what seems to be happening is that I am not being redirected to the admin site after I enter the usernmae and password.  The log in page refreshes without giving me a username or password error.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Michael

I can PM with specific access information if that helps.

It sounds like you still had some paths pointing to the old trial install- you can override configuration variables by editing the system/config.php file in cases where you aren’t able to login.

However- I’m not dead sure where you are now.  Is the system up- you can access the frontend ok- but still can’t login?  If you ftp in and grab your system/config.php and edit any paths there, does it help?  If not, can you pm me the page to your backend control panel?  I’d like to dig up what path looks incorrect.

Robin thanks…

Here is the solution which ended up being in a PM.  I am posting here to complete this thread.

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When you run the install script, it will write to the config based on the info you put into the install script.  When you move, you’ll generally move your config.php and edit it to match the new site.  Same thing with your path.php file- you’ll want to be sure yours isn’t empty- and roughly matches this example from the wiki:
http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Path/

The only thing you need to do to change that path.php file is make sure that:
$system_path = “./system/”;
Is correct- it should point to your (probably) renamed system folder.

All that make sense?

-Robin

Sweet- glad all is up and working again!