无法登录克隆的Joomla！ 3.2网站

Question

I have a local installation of Joomla! 3.2.0 (for editing and testing) and clone that to a commercial server (for publishing) as described in http://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website using ssh and MySQL CLI. The only files that are NOT copied are .htacces and configuration.php.

The front end works very nicely, all content is displayed correctly, however, no user can login at the backend (/administrator): "Warning - Username and password do not match or you do not have an account yet."

I can see all users in the database of the server where login fails. Are there any PHP settings or values in configuration.php to look out for? How to approach this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Your configuration.php has a value that needs to be copied from dev to production, it's "secret" and it's used to hash passwords. If this is not there, that's the reason.

Another possibility is that you have accidentally enabled the two factor authentication, but I'd go with the first option 99% should solve your issue.

Update

Joomla 3.2.1.rc just released, try that first!

Additionally:

Joomla plugin twofactorauth and the option to use stronger encryption doesn't properly set defaults when upgrading. Thus you might get away with forcing the params, but I don't have code for that (it's up to you).

Link to the Joomla article "How do you recover or reset your admin password?" but it's not appropriate in 3.2, still it may work.

Finally, a code solution was published here