I'm trying to get a better handle on Joomla and have gone through a few installations with a little help from JP.

I wanted to post some solutions to a few snags I ran in to

• configuration.php and the FTP user

On the the pre-installation check, when it gives you the red "No" for the configuration.php file being writable - ensure it stays this way. Otherwise you'll run into problems on the next page. You can copy the configuration.php file from the last page in the setup into a text file, and then upload that file to your root directory. I had originally went to my FTP server and changed the permissions to allow write access to this file, and when it came to the FTP setup portion, I received an error "the XML response that was returned from the server is invalid". Making the configuration.php not writable fixed this.

• Admin user name and password don't match

The admin email & password settings are on the same page as the "install sample data page". For some reason, clicking the "install sample data" button after entering the admin email and password gave me an error saying that the "admin passwords do not match". I tried a number of different matching passwords, refreshed, went back to the previous screen - nothing would work. Finally I came back to the admin email & password screen, entered an email and matching passwords and it worked (not sure why). Anyway - the point is, despite using Roboform I forgot which password actually worked. Which brings me to my next snag:

• Resetting the super admin password

If you want to reset the super admin password, go into your database using PHPMyAdmin and locate the jos_users table (or whatever prefix you have on your joomla tables). Open this table and edit the admin user (by default it's id # 62). Change the password to whatever you like, but choose the "MD5" function in the dropdown on the left. This will hash the password using the MD5 algorithm that Joomla uses to match passwords.

There you go!

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