can’t login as admin in my own forum

this is odd....did some admin work on my forum this morning, logged out and then needed to do some more work so trued to login again....only to get either an 'Sorry, the Username or Password entered is incorrect.
Please try again.' message (the username and password are NOT incorrect - have them on paper in front of me) - or a different message: 'Sorry, only members with sufficient permission can access this page.'

I've reuploaded all the admin files, cleared my cache on both my PC and Mac, set all browsers to accept cookies, tried using 5 different browsers and still can't get back into the administration ...


any suggestions before i go mad?

k

hae you tried logging in though the main forum?

yes....with the same results

also try re uplaoding files downloaded from WWF.

already have...no difference

the only other suggestion is if access, try a compact and repair the password/fields may have become corruptted.

trying that now ....nope...that didn't work....

failing that open a blank/default WWF database and cope the password and salt code fields into the existing database, that will revert the password back to 'letmein'


ok well that's allowed me back in.....but i'm a little concerned that the issue arose in the first place after the forum had only been up a few hours and had only a dozen or so posts.....makes me wary of using this prgramme if it's prone to corruption so easily. The forum DB is a little under half a meg, while my main DB is over 20meg and hasn't fallen over once in the last seven years...

if you have a big database or busy forum its best to go straight for the MSSQL version as access is really a desktop application not designed for the internet.

i know that, but my main site is run entitely off an Access DB, gets 1000 users a day, contains thousands of items, images and other files, and runs perfectly happily....the forum DB is a fraction of the size,has had no more than a dozen or so users in the day since it went live and has fallen over already...


keith

redsnapper, I've been using WebWizForums for several years now.  I've had very good luck using the MS Access and MS SQL and even on MySQL.  Most of the time this has been on shared-host servers.  I've never suffered data corruption.  If the one and only step that got your site running again was the restoration of the admin password and salt, something other than corruption was probably the cause.