[TYPO3-linux] Cannot login to backend panel on a new install

[S.Korth]

Did you check the db connection with the install tool ? Everything ok ?
Remove all admins and add a new one with the Install tool.
If nothing helps try to check out your mysql or php logs...

Sascha


Chris Jensen schrieb:
> Hello!
> 
> I am utterly baffled by a problem that I am facing with my new Typo3 
> install, and, after searching through the documentation, the typo3 wiki 
> and the newsgroups, I'm thinking that the members of this mailing-list 
> might be my only hope.
> 
> Here is the issue:
> We (my site administrator and I) have created a mySQL user and DB, we 
> unpacked the Typo3 tar file as per the wiki.typo3.org Installation 
> Basics document, and we ran the 1-2-3-GO configuration and received no 
> errors messages on the install tool's Advanced Configuration screens. 
> However, the backend login at http://typo3.mn-s.ca/typo3/index.php 
> generates the following error:
> 
> "Your login attempt did not succeed. Make sure to spell your username 
> and password correctly, including upper/lowercase characters."
> 
> MySQL shows the user ID is 'admin' and the password hash corresponds to 
> the MD5 of 'password'. This is precisely what we tried to use to log on 
> to the backend.
> 
> We tried creating new DB users with the Install Tool (and verified that 
> those users were being created by checking out the be_users table in the 
> database using phpMyADmin), but those users cannot log in to the backend 
> either. Same error message.
> 
> Our configuration:
> Plesk 9.2.1
> CentOS 5.3
> Apache 2.2.3 (PHP run as FastCGI)
> PHP 5.1.6 (safe_mode=off)
> MySQL 5.0.45 (sql-mode="")
> 
> We are running Typo3 in a Plesk created subdomain.
> 
> Even though we are running PHP 5.1, we still began with the newest 
> version of Typo3 because the forums stated that compatibility shouldn't 
> be a problem:
> 
> "If you are using PHP 5.1 then you might be in luck... We are aware that 
> enterprise Linux distributions of Novell and RedHat do not ship with PHP 
> 5.2 yet (they both come with 5.1). Therefore, we will avoid using PHP 
> 5.2 any specific features in TYPO3 as long as they have not switched."
> (http://buzz.typo3.org/people/stucki/article/leaving-php4-behind/)
> 
> However, the problems pushed us to try Typo3 4.1.10 in spite of the 
> above statement. Unfortunately, these issues persisted in this version 
> as well.
> 
> As an aside, we tried the various fixes suggested in this forum post 
> (http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=4003) but none of them worked either.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? After reviewing all 
> of the CMS options out there, it really seems like Typo3 would be best 
> for our organization, but we can't even begin testing it (and learning 
> its intricacies) until we can login into the backend.
> 
> Thank you in advance for any advice you could offer.
> 
> -Chris