In phpMyAdmin, run the following, which will create an admin user named Admin1 with a password of admin. From that point you should be able to get into the ACP. Change your table prefix if it is not
See Executing SQL Queries in phpMyAdmin if you are unfamiliar with running database queries.
As soon as you have done this, use the temporary admin account to change the details on the original admin account, then delete the temporary account.
This is because:
Code:
INSERT INTO phpbb_users (user_type, group_id, username, username_clean, user_regdate, user_password, user_email, user_lang, user_style, user_rank, user_colour, user_posts, user_permissions, user_ip, user_birthday, user_lastpage, user_last_confirm_key, user_post_sortby_type, user_post_sortby_dir, user_topic_sortby_type, user_topic_sortby_dir, user_avatar, user_sig, user_sig_bbcode_uid, user_jabber, user_actkey, user_newpasswd) VALUES (3, 5, 'Admin1', 'admin1', 0, '21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3', 'admin@example.com', 'en', 1, 1, 'AA0000', 1, '', '', '', '', '', 't', 'a', 't', 'd', '', '', '', '', '', '');phpbb_See Executing SQL Queries in phpMyAdmin if you are unfamiliar with running database queries.
As soon as you have done this, use the temporary admin account to change the details on the original admin account, then delete the temporary account.
This is because:
- anyone could use that account to log in to your board if you didn't change the password.
- this temporary user has not been fully set up (e.g. it is not a member of the "Registered users" group, so it won't have normal access to your forums).
Statistics: Posted by KevC — Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:36 pm