I'm an absolute NEWWWWB!!! Help!

[revaxmedia]

OK - not really much experience in VBulletin - enough to use it and make basic changes - my forum bizforums was getting a lot of spam so I thought I would create a promotion on which a user gets 15 posts they are allowed a signature soooo..... I newbishly set this to promote it to a primary usergroup making my admin an actual user - and everyone else; how can I get access to the admin panel without an admin account? also I can't find the admin URL?

Thanks

Shane!

[borbole]

Originally Posted by revaxmedia

OK - not really much experience in VBulletin - enough to use it and make basic changes - my forum bizforums was getting a lot of spam so I thought I would create a promotion on which a user gets 15 posts they are allowed a signature soooo..... I newbishly set this to promote it to a primary usergroup making my admin an actual user - and everyone else; how can I get access to the admin panel without an admin account? also I can't find the admin URL?

Thanks

Shane!

You can reset it by running the tools.php file which can be found inside the do_not_upload folder in the vb package.

The admin folder, unless changed, is called admincp. You can see it here for your forum:

http://bizforums.co.uk/admincp/

For security reasons it would be better if you renamed it to something else and also protected it with .htaccess password.

Another way to make your user an admin again would be to run a query at the SQL Box in your phpmyadmin.

 UPDATE user SET usergroupid = 6 where userid=x;

Replace x with your id and if your db tables use a prefix, append it to the user table name in the query above.

Hope it helps.

[revaxmedia]

Thanks for the help it's appreciated will try them out this evening when I get back.

Thanks!

Shane

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Originally Posted by borbole

You can reset it by running the tools.php file which can be found inside the do_not_upload folder in the vb package.

The admin folder, unless changed, is called admincp. You can see it here for your forum:

http://bizforums.co.uk/admincp/

For security reasons it would be better if you renamed it to something else and also protected it with .htaccess password.

Another way to make your user an admin again would be to run a query at the SQL Box in your phpmyadmin.

 UPDATE user SET usergroupid = 6 where userid=x;

Replace x with your id and if your db tables use a prefix, append it to the user table name in the query above.

Hope it helps.

You legend - it worked; basically went to user table in MySQL phpmyadmin and changed the usergroup assigned to it - thanks again

[borbole]

Originally Posted by revaxmedia

Thanks for the help it's appreciated will try them out this evening when I get back.

Thanks!

Shane

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You legend - it worked; basically went to user table in MySQL phpmyadmin and changed the usergroup assigned to it - thanks again

You are welcome. Glad to have been of help.