Copyrite Tag error and no login or Registration happening

[streetskater]

OK I first enstalled 1.0.0 but after tweaking the setup.php file so that it could find the proper directories I kept getting:
 "you should enter a userid"   when I tried to login or register as a new user

 Needless to say I am entering a userid.   No matter what I put in that field I got that error message.  I was able to get the system to email me back my correct userid but for the password it mailed back: "$1$5ITQrX2l$LvyLqk1Dnwg0CBJdXz9fn/

Even entering that mess didn't allow me to logon.

So then I installed 1.1.0.  Everthing seemed to go fine except now I get :
"Sorry, the copyright tag must be in the template.
Please notify this forum's administrator that this site is using an ILLEGAL copy of YaBB"

Plus the other problem mentioned above--it won't let me logon and it won't let me register.  

I've changed every directory to 777 and every file to 666 prior to running the install scripts.   Any help would be appreciated as I'm now 2 wks late  in getting this forum installed.

[Daniel D.]

1. Copy the template.html of YaBB SE 1.0 over the excisting one and delete template.php.

2. Did you change the name of the cookies ? Open settings.php and change the names, upload it again in your server. Hope this solves a few problems...

By the way: Any error messages ? Can you post them ?

[streetskater]

OK  the Template thing was pretty much a nobrainer since that's just a URL--thanks for not laughing at me.

But even after changing the cookieusername, and cookiepassword (and I'm assuming I change what they're set to and not the variable names themselves)  I'm still getting this inane error message:

An Error Has Occurred!

You should fill in a username.
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I believe it's error 37.  And yes it definitely looks like some passed variables are NOT being assigned, but I'm unable to track down where or why the breakdown occurs.  I assume it's a permission problem but I've done everything I can think of to eliminate that possibility.

Thanks for your help so far.

[streetskater]

OK I think I've traced the error source to this line in the loginout.php:

if($user == ""){ fatal_error("$txt[37]"); "

I  assume that $user should be set in the line:

global $txt,$settings,$username,$cookielength,$Cookie_Length,$user,$passwrd,$cookieneverexp,$db_prefix;


This of course doesn't help me that much since I'm WAY far from having even a pretense  of understanding 99% of this code and what is calling what.  

[Nemesis]

Your template should have the <yabb copyright> tag in it, if not add it to the bottom. I am using template.php I careless about editing the template through admin center anyways. If you want to edit the template through admin delete template.php and just use template.html

For the user name try username admin and password admin. Then go to settings and turn off send password to new register users, then try re-registering.

What your board URL so I can take a look at it.

[streetskater]

http://81-87-columbia-hgts.com/yabbse

Thanks  in advance for the help.

I think the template thing is pretty much taken care of.  I'm still butting my head against the login/register problem though.

[Nemesis]

Hmm can't register to your board, says Invalid character used in Username. All I typed fro username was test? Look in phpadmin and see if you have any users setup? Might want to try and wipe your datebase and yabb se install and start YaBB SE 1.1.0 from scratch once again and see what happens, also install the new subs.php and ssi.php you can find them on the bug 1.1.0 board here at YaBB.info

[streetskater]

I can't find any phpadmin file.  where should it be.

To wipe out the database--do I need to go in and do it from mysql or does yabbse have a complete unistall script that I can run.

[Nemesis]

oops, you may not have phpadmin it usually in your host control panel. If you are hosting it yourself just go in mysql and do it. Run the install script in a seperate directory then what you are installing the board in, the board directory should be created first and chmod to 777 I suggest calling it forums or communtiy.

[Nemesis]

Well get it up and running.  
I had problems when I first was learning to install the perl version of the board. I asked for help and I received, now it is my turn to give back.

[streetskater]

"Well get it up and running"

I hope that was supposed to be "we'll get it up and running".  I've just dropped the entire yabbse database and am ready to fresh instal.--fingers crossed.

I'll downolad the phpadmin stuff later.

[Nemesis]

Sweet, I suggest installing the forum's in a diffrent directory then where the install.php is. Also click the box ovewrite new files.

I made mine in a directory called community. Just make sure the directory is chmod to 777

we'll get it up and running

That what I meant.  

Good luck!

[Nemesis]

Here is the link to phpadmin

http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net/

[streetskater]

I've had no luck with the suggestions so far.  I'm basically right where I started.  I cannot register after creating my yabbse forum nor can I login as administrator.  The error message I get when I try to logon as admin is:

An Error Has Occurred!
You should fill in a username

The error I get when I try to register as a new user is:

An Error Has Occurred!
Invalid character used in Username.

When I request the system mail me my id and password I get this:
Dear paulb,

The Co-Op Board ==>

Username: paulb
Password: $1$EFuhxHef$H.p3odcolrKUnVTBRw.QH.
Position: Administrator

Obviously THAT password is garbage.  This has to be a scripting problem and surely it's been solved before.   I've started shifting through the scripts but that's really beyond the scope anything I was planning on in setting up a simple forum.  Any help is appreciated.

 

[streetskater]

OK, here's a SQL statement I found that sure doesn't look kosher:
INSERT INTO forum_members VALUES (1, 'paulb', 'paulb', '$1$$IdDLxTUolhCTockINyySb0', '[email protected]', 1016384265, '', 'Administrator', NULL, '0000-00-00', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL, 'blank.gif', NULL, 0, NULL, 0, 0, NULL);

Does anyone know what script is creating that SQL line.  I have tried doing string searches for specific text but I'm not getting anywhere.