Admin login not working after migration

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Greetings!

I’ve migrated from 2.4.5.0 to 3.1.1 and can’t login using the admin account. On my existing 2.4.5.0 it works fine, but on the new version in a test machine it does not. It just tells me “Invalid username or password. Please try again.”

The new machine has

Server type: MariaDB 10.1.32
Web server: Apache/2.4.33 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.1.0h PHP/7.2.5

I read previous treads and checked that the password field length is 255, so I am not sure what else to do. Your help will be much appreciated!

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Hi @Lolekbolek,

Are you sure you didn’t accidentally change the encryption setting in config.inc.php during the upgrade?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Wow, thank you Alec!

Right on! The old (existing) config.inc.php had encryption = md5, while the new one has sha1. Changed it to md5 and voila, can login just fine!

Thanks again!