Changed default passwords (MySQL, Stats, FTP), now site erro

[Clay52]

Before I changed passwords, I was logged in to the administrator control panel having a look around and it showed that the phpBB version was out of date, showing 3.08 and suggesting to update it, which I did to 3.09. That went well and then that is when I decided to change my passwords which of course went as it should've but then I went to login I was receiving errors. I figured I borked it due to the pw change so I decided to delete the old db and all files in the directory etc. under file manager. Now after recreating a db and reinstalling the phpBB, it comes up blank, I've now since done this several times but same result, blank. Boy I'm on a roll

[Edge100x]

Are you using our autoinstaller? Did it show you an error?

[GitSum]

Now after recreating a db and reinstalling the phpBB, it comes up blank, I've now since done this several times but same result, blank. Boy I'm on a roll

When you say "blank" what are you seeing - the dreaded "White Screen"?

[Clay52]

Are you using our autoinstaller? Did it show you an error?

Hi John, yes and it installs just as it should, no error there.

Now after recreating a db and reinstalling the phpBB, it comes up blank, I've now since done this several times but same result, blank. Boy I'm on a roll

When you say "blank" what are you seeing - the dreaded "White Screen"?

Yes white screen with nothing at all.

Everything was fine until as I said, I changed passwords. I just wished I'd have done it before starting my web stuff initially, my bad, hope I didn't mess things up John.

[Clay52]

Update: I just now recreated a new db and ran the autoinstaller (phpBB) and things seem to be ok now. Perhaps just sleeping on it and coming back overnight helped. One more thing, is it ok that we update phpBB to 3.09? Thanks John and GitSum for the input!

[Edge100x]

Yes, please do upgrade to 3.0.9. I'll have to work on updating that autoinstaller also.

[Clay52]

Yes, please do upgrade to 3.0.9. I'll have to work on updating that autoinstaller also.

Sounds good and I'm at 3.09 now and forum stuff is going fine considering I'm so new at all of this, just I'm a total HTML n00b and very lost and could use some help on the content stuff etc.

One quick question though, is it desirable to have a separate db for each auto-installer?

[Edge100x]

I'd recommend using a separate database for each, yes. This just ensures that they won't trample each others' tables.

[Clay52]

I'd recommend using a separate database for each, yes. This just ensures that they won't trample each others' tables.

Ok great, will do. Another thing, I do have phpMyAdmin installed to check it out, also of course phpBB for the forums stuff but I was curious again being so new at all of this, do most who have their sites hosted here, do they use or do we necessarily need the other auto-installers, e.g. Wordpress, Drupal? Thanks John.

[Edge100x]

Different customers have different setups and all of the autoinstallers are used by some. phpMyAdmin is probably the most commonly used one, followed by phpBB, then Drupal and Wordpress. You should only use the autoinstallers that you need personally.

[Clay52]

Different customers have different setups and all of the autoinstallers are used by some. phpMyAdmin is probably the most commonly used one, followed by phpBB, then Drupal and Wordpress. You should only use the autoinstallers that you need personally.

Understood. I have all but Django installed so I can decide upon which or all to work with, and all are working fine but I just tried to log into phpMyAdmin moments ago and get the error:

#1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server

[TimeX]

It may be that your database information was changed since you installed phpmyadmin. Do you really need phpmyadmin? It is mostly used for manually working with databases directly, sort of an advanced user interface.

[Clay52]

It may be that your database information was changed since you installed phpmyadmin. Do you really need phpmyadmin? It is mostly used for manually working with databases directly, sort of an advanced user interface.

Hi Time, yeah probably not but I installed it to see how it was out of curiosity. I've not done anything with it (phpMyAdmin db)to my recollection, though I've worked with phpBB extensively so not sure why the error would occur, any other ideas? Perhaps I'll give it a go down the road when I'm more versed in the basics.

[TimeX]

phpmyadmin doesn't really have a database of its own per se, it is more of a tool for connecting to various other databases to do work on them.

To more directly address your problem, I'm really not sure why it would be giving that error, but reinstalling it may help.

[Clay52]

phpmyadmin doesn't really have a database of its own per se, it is more of a tool for connecting to various other databases to do work on them.

To more directly address your problem, I'm really not sure why it would be giving that error, but reinstalling it may help.

Understood. I've deleted all /public/phpMyAdmin files, reinstalled it and the error still persists oddly enough.