No admin login data saved

[rjmck]

Have had a problem with being unable to login to admin after install. So have deleted previous install completely and followed the wiki exactly step by step to do a new install.

Used osCMax_v2_0_15.zip -- unzipped into root directory.

Set up mysql database, then ran the installer.

All went without a hitch i.e. no error or retry messages. Screen 5 "success".

Checked that I have catalog/admin/includes/configure.php -- all data in it appears to be correct.

Attempt to login to admin area using the username and password I entered in screen 4 .... ERROR: Wrong username or password!

Again, when I check the database with phpmyadmin, there are 95 tables -- but the admin table is empty of data. So the entries on screen 4 of install have not been saved.

Any clues as to the solution of this??

Thanks
Ron

[ridexbuilder]

Is this a server install, or a local installation?
Also useful; the version of mySQL, PHP, Apache and any PHP security hardening.
Have you given the database username full access rights to the database?

[rjmck]

This is a local server install - running iis7 on windows 7.

MySQL client version: 5.0.45
php version 5.2.5

the database user has "all privileges"

postscript: I found a post from Michael_s that gave the hash for a generic password -- so made a manual entry in the admin table, and am now able to login! But somehting obviously went astray in the install process: I wonder if any other have same problem?

Ron

[pgmarshall]

It might be an iis issue ... not always the best for osCommerce derivatives - as most people don't use it - so it doesn't get as much testing ...

Regards,