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Installed MediaWiki yesterday, How do I log in?

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70.61.199.99 (talkcontribs)

I just completed the installation of MediaWiki on our Win2008 server with IIS7. How do I login? I've tried every user I know to try (WikiAdmin, wikiuser, root) with variations of caps. They all return that the user is not a valid user. Looks as if the DefaultSettings file is not similar to the LocalSettings file. How do I update the Default file with what I have in the LocalSettings file? Wouldn't the initial webform setup have done that?

Any help is appreciated.

MaxSem (talkcontribs)

You chose the admin account name during installation (pre-1.17 default is WikiSysop). You can check it at Special:ListAdmins. See Manual:Resetting passwords for password recovery. Sometimes it happens that admin account doesn't gets created, in such case use createAndPromote.php.

70.61.199.99 (talkcontribs)

I created WikiAdmin user on initial setup. This user isn't located anywhere in DefaultSettings file. It is in LocalSettings file. How do I get to CreateandPromote.php? When I try to navigate there via URL it is just blank. I don't have a ListAdmins page in my special pages.

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