Install went well, after selecting settings options I locked myself out of SMF

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Hello,

Set up the bridge and everything worked fine, tested registration and login and had no trouble. I than went about customizing my settings for the forum and some how locked myself out of the admin area. I can still log in to the CMS admin area but SMF does not recognize the admin username/password nor any user, new registrations or existing.

I was reading through the F.A.Q. Sticky and think that I must have changed one of the settings listed here;

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=63187.msg453559#msg453559

I tried the repair_settings.php tool from the download section of this site but I still can not login as admin, or user, to change whatever it is I must have done.

Any advice?

SMF Version: SMF 1.0.6.
Joomla Version: Joomla 1.0.7-Stable
Bridge Version: MOS_SMF_BRIDGEv3.19a_stable
Method: Shared DB/Wrapped/Bridge Registration

I did not want to submit the url so I will send it in a PM.

Thanks,

[Orstio]

With 3.19a, your forum must be viewable to guests in order for the login to function.  You can make all the boards members-only, but the board index must be guest viewable.

This is fixed in the bridge for SMF 1.1 RC2.

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That explains it, figured it was something I did. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I was able to go in to the db and reverse it.

I'll most likely updgrade in the near future but for now you got me up and moving again.

Thanks for the help and the awesome bridge!!

[jbabler]

Ran into this problem. Click, where did you go in your database to fix this?

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I recieved a PM asking how I was able to reverse the setting in the DB so I thought I'd post the answer here.

As Orstio said,

With 3.19a, your forum must be viewable to guests in order for the login to function.  You can make all the boards members-only, but the board index must be guest viewable.

This is fixed in the bridge for SMF 1.1 RC2.

Which was exactly my problem, none of the other settings I set needed to be reversed for me to get back in. It takes a little undertanding of phpmyadmin but I don't have much and I was able to do it.

First, I logged in to phpmyadmin, went to my combined smf-joomla database and selected the table for SMF settings. I'm assuming this table will be called,  "smf_settings" for everyone but I'm not sure.

Next, I selected search and typed in, "allow_guestAccess" in the, "variable" row, under, "value" and hit go.

The row I wanted was the only result to the search so I clicked the edit button and changed the value from, "0" to, "1". Than, I verified that I was set to save and hit the go button again. That was it.

I'm no expert at this sort of thing so use this at your own risk.

Ultimatly I decided to update to SMF 1.1 RC2 and use the 3.2 bridge, I'm very happy I did.  I first started using the bridge at version 2.1 and I'm amazed at the advancements it's made in such a short time. As for SMF 1.1 RC2, it looks great, works perfectly and seems very streamlined in comaprison to 1.0.6 and all the previous versions. Everyone has done such an awesome job on all these products, I'm thrilled to be using them and more than proud to display the copyrights

Hope this was usefull,

[Bigguy]

I had this problem to but I`m sure it was with 3.2 and not 3.19a. Also I was on seperate databases. I decided to try out Tp and drop joomla. I`m happy with Tp, I dont have it on my live site yet as I`m still testing a bit. I will try to test out joomla again to. Thanks for this.

[Orstio]

I had this problem to but I`m sure it was with 3.2 and not 3.19a.

No, this is not an issue in 3.20.  You may have experienced something similar, but not this.