Phpbb Forum Pw Naming Protocol

[amansker]

I haven't seen this posted in faq/forum and think it will be helpful for future reference.

 

Thanks to tch Aromal for helping me diagnose this issue.

 

My user accounts (/cpanel) passwords included a "+" character. When creating a new phpbb forum it uses the existing /cpanel user/pw. The forums do not allow the "+" character (and I assume other special characters) but gives no warning during creation of the forum. Consequently, I could not log into the new forum to admin.

 

Eliminating these characters from your account/cpanel pw BEFORE creating the forum should avoid any problems.

[TCH-Don]

Thank you Andy

for sharing that Thumbs Up

 

I guess its best to stick with letters and numbers and no special characters

for passwords.