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I managed to reset my admin password.

So, if I use SMTP mail, will the board be able to send out mail? It would just use it for that, so hopefully, there shouldn't be any abuse.

After looking at the message about e-mail, I've run into a problem with my message board. I forgot the password for the admin account. Unfortunately, because sending mail doesn't work, I am unable to reset the mail password. I tried accessing the database directly to find my password but the passwords all appear to be encrypted.

How I retrieve my password so I can get access to my board?

That seems to have fixed it. Thanks for taking the time to help.

I'm pretty sure that I was using the user name of coontf for the old database but   I'm not 100% on that.

The old database was called fortruddlerforum .

The address of my forum is http://coontf.xepher.net/punBB .

I used to use PhPBB but switched to PunBB around February because of problems with spam. The files in the folder PunBB are from February because that's when I installed the forum and I just haven't updated it since then. Those files should be all right.

After I posted my initial message and received the initial response. In the config.php file, I changed the password and the database name to match my Xepher user name and password. That seemed to correct my problem with being unable to see the database.

Now, the error it gives when I access it is: Error: Unable to fetch guest information.

Back in February I think it was, I tried to install with SQLight but had to abandon that as I couldn't import from the PhPBB database with it. I think I have three tables (or whatever the prefixes refer to). coontf should be from the old PhPBB one. I tried a fresh install with PunBB making a new Prefix coontf2 (which itself should be empty as I didn't do much of anything with it). I was using rustyrascal for the PunBB install that I'm having the problem with.

I think the problem is that, it can't see the table (again, assuming this is what prefix refers to) that I was using for the PunBB install, which I'm pretty sure should be rustyrascal . From what I've heard, this could be caused by the loss of the guest account in the table. However, I might just be mistaking the prefix name. The one I'm using was indeed a MySQL one. I know because I needed to use that to be able to import/convert the files from the older PhPBB forum.

I'm hoping I'm making sense here. In short, the problem seems to not be with the forum itself, but with getting it to see the data in the database where it was accessing it from before the server change.

When I 'fixed' the config.php file for PunBB, I changed the password for the database to my xepher password but I also changed the database name to coontf. Should I have left the database name as I had it before?

Okay, now I'm having trouble accessing the original database so I can get my message board working. I can see the database and it seems to be the right size, so the data is still there. However, I can't seem to get the right prefix to access it.

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I'm using PunBB as my messageboard software if that helps. from the support site, it seems that in the database, something happened to the guest account, which has messed up the forum. I'm honestly not sure how to fix this. I hate to think it, but I'm worried that I've lost all the user info for the forum and have to start from scratch.

Thanks for the help

Ever since the server move, whenever I try to access my message board, I get an error message of:


An error was encountered
Error: Unable to connect to MySQL server. MySQL reported: Access denied for user '*******'@'localhost' (using password: YES).