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Feb 25, 2008, 8:29 AM

rowhouser

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Feb 25, 2008, 8:29 AM

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user login and password

The staff at Gossamer Threads just finished an install for me last week but I do not have a password and login to the admin cgi. Is there anyway I can reset it through the file manager, so that I can access my admin panel.

Feb 25, 2008, 8:33 AM

Andy

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Feb 25, 2008, 8:33 AM

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Hi,

The easiest way, is to go into FTP, and goto your /cgi-bin/links/admin (or wherever your admin.cgi script is), and type:

Code:
DELE .htaccess

..and then:

Code:
DELE .htpasswd

If you have SSH, you can do it with:

Code:
cd /path/to/glinks/admin 
rm .htaccess 
rm .htpasswd

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Feb 25, 2008, 8:55 AM

rowhouser

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Feb 25, 2008, 8:55 AM

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Ok now that I deleted these files I need to create them.

I went to http://www.htaccesstools.com/...cess-authentication/

but what do I use for a file path. I do not think I can use the path /cgi-bin/links/admin/

thanks

Feb 25, 2008, 8:57 AM

Andy

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Feb 25, 2008, 8:57 AM

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Hi,

Go to your admin panel, and click on the link in the main frame, when it loads :) Think it says something like "protect now" ... or very similar Smile

Hope that helps.

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Feb 25, 2008, 9:14 AM

rowhouser

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Feb 25, 2008, 9:14 AM

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Hi Andy

I did jus that here

Warning: It appears that the admin directory has not yet been password protected. If you are on an Apache server, you can do it directly from admin panel, otherwise you should contact your ISP to protect this directory.

that but it says the file htaccess does not exsist.

A fatal error has occured:

Could not open '/var/home/xxxxxxx/xxxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/links/admin/.htpasswd': No such file or directory at /var/home/xxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/links/admin/Links/Tools.pm line 1592.Please enable debugging in setup for more details.

So I replaced the file htaccess file in the admin directory but then it locks up my admin panel.

Feb 25, 2008, 9:20 AM

Andy

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Feb 25, 2008, 9:20 AM

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Hi,

Do you have SSH?

If so, do this:

Code:
cd /path/to/admin 
htpasswd -c .htpasswd USERNAMER_TO_MAKE

...then in your admin .htacces file, put this in it:

Code:
AuthUserFile   /path/to/your/admin/.htpasswd 
AuthGroupFile  /dev/null 
AuthType       Basic 
AuthName       Protected 

require valid-user

That should do it :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Feb 25, 2008, 9:41 AM

rowhouser

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Feb 25, 2008, 9:41 AM

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Ok I re did the htaccess file using the code you gave me. I then generated the htpassword file and put the two files in their respective folders and it worked.

Thanks for the quick responses. I have been losing way too much time playing with this software.

Feb 25, 2008, 9:43 AM

Andy

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Feb 25, 2008, 9:43 AM

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Hi,

No problem - glad its working Smile

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk