I've seen some stupid passwords in the past but this takes the biscuit!!

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Installing (or trying to install...I'm so far out of my depth here it's not funny:blast) Wordpress onto a website......the password generator comes up with
@IuM %_xc68-19#|~{I>}QT?6my4I-iYrG,z&?3WS|dRi_#l+K|{@|os#Cgrn{XZ

yeah right :blast

I'm so going to remember that....it just trips off the tongue doesn't it!!! :aidan
FFS:mad:
 
just copy and paste it to where it's needed and also paste to a notepad file just in case :thumb2
 
just copy and paste it to where it's needed and also paste to a notepad file just in case :thumb2

:augie thanks Jez:kissy2

PS ya don't know anything about php programming and setting up an SQL 5 database do you by any chance? :)
 
Installing (or trying to install...I'm so far out of my depth here it's not funny:blast) Wordpress onto a website......the password generator comes up with ...... yeah right :blast I'm so going to remember that....it just trips off the tongue doesn't it!!! :aidan
FFS:mad:

just copy and paste it to where it's needed and also paste to a notepad file just in case :thumb2
Similar sort of idea to Jez, but I've found the easiest way to "remember" about 8 different passwords is to enter them into my mobile, under the name of the person I dealt with eg my Internet banking password would be saved under "Jill" but after entering the Customer Service number I enter the password eg "gJL63454bN". :thumb

The good thing with this is that
  1. You nearly always have your mobile with you and
  2. If you were to lose it, all my numbers are backed up onto the mobile phone backup.
 
:augie thanks Jez:kissy2

PS ya don't know anything about php programming and setting up an SQL 5 database do you by any chance? :)

Nope complete computer numpty thats me:)
 
Nope complete computer numpty thats me:)

Jez.....what you put was spot on, and what I'd already done (hence the :augie).....I have a whole bunch of .txt files with obscure stuff like that saved inside the instal directories of all sorts of plug ins and add-ons....it's a good way of doing it (as long as you can remember where to find stuff:blast)

I wouldn't normally link to my site but it maybe of some help, we have an auto installer for wordpress, and loads of other common apps here - www.mantiscomputing.com that need no tech knowledge at all to install.

OOo thanks Rob......If what I've done already hasn't worked (I'm following their so called 'famous 5 min install) :blast I'll take a look .......TBH , even though it's a really steep learning curve , I want to be able to understand it, it their speak, so I might have a vague chance of fixing stuff when it inevitably goes wrong.........I'm quite chuffed that I've managed to learn enough about Dreamweaver to have produced the Moto-Morocco website myself, based on a template from David Hale's bunch of reprobates, so giving in and going the easy route wouldn't feel right ;)


EDIT...:mad:
To install an application, login to your cPanel hosting account and click on 'Installatron Script Installer' under the heading 'Software /Services'.'
And it's going to cost me a pile of money as well :(
 
OOo thanks Rob......If what I've done already hasn't worked (I'm following their so called 'famous 5 min install) :blast I'll take a look .......TBH , even though it's a really steep learning curve , I want to be able to understand it, it their speak, so I might have a vague chance of fixing stuff when it inevitably goes wrong.........I'm quite chuffed that I've managed to learn enough about Dreamweaver to have produced the Moto-Morocco website myself, based on a template from David Hale's bunch of reprobates, so giving in and going the easy route wouldn't feel right ;)


EDIT...:mad:

And it's going to cost me a pile of money as well :(

it's not a pile, more like a small bump, where there's a need there can be a deal, let me know if you need help.
 
Where you installing it Bill?

on my .co.uk version of the site as a test, have created a MySQL5 database, an admin login to it, changed the wp-config.php file to read as follows (in part obvioously, and details protected)

define('DB_NAME', 'wpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'abcdef');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'mypasswordtothatdatabase');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'mysql5-1.moto-morocco.co.uk');

I'm then ftping the wpress folder into a directory called wpress on the root server.....(I've tried sticking it in the directory called 'db' which appears and in the root but neither of those worked either)......I'm then supposed to go to http://www,moto-morocco.co.uk/wpress/wp-admin/install.php and it should install itself, but I'm getting page not found :nenau


:tears

EDIT....it is there though;
 

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I did read once that the complexity of a password was directly proportional to the ineptitude of the system administrator and network security policy :D

It does ring true having seem some very complex passwords on some very insecure networks.

All time favourite was a site where the Domain Admin password was administrator 'That way we never forget they said' Fair to say it had no access to the webynet, 2m air gaps to the untrusted network and the DA's all carried loaded 9mm Pistols.
 
I did read once that the complexity of a password was directly proportional to the ineptitude of the system administrator and network security policy :D

It does ring true having seem some very complex passwords on some very insecure networks.

All time favourite was a site where the Domain Admin password was administrator 'That way we never forget they said' Fair to say it had no access to the webynet, 2m air gaps to the untrusted network and the DA's all carried loaded 9mm Pistols.

The ones above are obviously random generated by the system, and because I don't need to use them, they can be that long with no probs.

I read a site about secure passwords last week by coincidence- We all know that using your birthday, pet name or mother's maiden name is very insecure, but this site advocated using sentences and two bits of into or a longer, real word phrase, and gave the figures to back up that even a high powered computer would take several hundred years to crack a phrase based one like 'myfirstdogwascalledrapunzel' yet it's a dead easy thing to remember.
it made a lot of sense :thumb2
 
You're making this complicated for no good reason Bill.

Get Steptoe to fix the 'puter, you service his bike in return - jobs a good un :thumb
 
on my .co.uk version of the site as a test, have created a MySQL5 database, an admin login to it, changed the wp-config.php file to read as follows (in part obvioously, and details protected)

define('DB_NAME', 'wpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'abcdef');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'mypasswordtothatdatabase');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'mysql5-1.moto-morocco.co.uk');

I'm then ftping the wpress folder into a directory called wpress on the root server.....(I've tried sticking it in the directory called 'db' which appears and in the root but neither of those worked either)......I'm then supposed to go to http://www,moto-morocco.co.uk/wpress/wp-admin/install.php and it should install itself, but I'm getting page not found :nenau


:tears

EDIT....it is there though;

You've loaded your wpress folder a level too high.

It needs to be within the WWWROOT folder or you can't access it via the web

Want me to move it?
 
:blast No s'okay, can do that through CP easily.......many thanks though Steve:thumb2 (its obvious now you've said it :blast)

I may be back in a bit with more dumb questions though ;)

:beerjug:
 
BINGO! :D

Cheers Steve, in, installed and looking at he dashboard now....this is going to be interesting :D

(the secret plan to be able to host blogs for all our trips and some for others travelling in Morocco/elsewhere is now officially on :thumb2)

:beerjug:
 


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