User is not registered. Check your authentication controller.

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I haven't used C5 in a long time and wanted to come back to it as I absolutely loved it back when I had to use it. I just did a fresh install of C5 8.4

When I try to login I get this message:
User is not registered. Check your authentication controller.

I've checked the concrete5-8.4.0/application/config/database.php to make sure it had the correct server/username/password and that is all good. I've tried resetting the password for admin, of which it fails to send, so I checked the logs table and followed the link in the email it should have sent and changed the password (to what I originally set it to).

I don't know what it wants me to do. I've never had trouble like this in the past :(

I'm using xampp v3.2.2 (I've always used xampp albeit in the past it was on win 7 w/ an older version. I'm now win 10)
PHP 7.2.1

If you need more info please ask and thank you for any support you can give :)

ps. this is my first post so I hope I did everything correct

 
ConcreteOwl replied on at Permalink Reply
ConcreteOwl
If this was a fresh install your username will be admin..
EnderXain replied on at Permalink Reply
Yes I know. I was using admin as the username. I have yet to login to be able to make any other accounts. You get this error: Invalid username or password. when trying to login with an account that does not exist or the password is incorrect. My error is: User is not registered. Check your authentication controller. Any ideas?
ConcreteOwl replied on at Permalink Reply
ConcreteOwl
The only thing I can think of is to check the user table in the database and the relevant columns should read...
uID = 1
uName = admin
uIsActive = 1
uIsFullRecord = 1
uIsValidated = 1
uLastAuthenticationType = 1
EnderXain replied on at Permalink Reply
I have all of those with the specified values except for the last one
uLastAuthenticationType = 1
the only thing I have close to it is
uLastAuthTypeID = 1
ConcreteOwl replied on at Permalink Reply
ConcreteOwl
Your uLastAuthTypeID is correct, mine was a typo..
There may be something amiss with your local dev box setup that is causing your problem..
simonchilton replied on at Permalink Reply
simonchilton
I'm suddenly getting the same issue. Was able to log in fine yesterday, today I get "User is not registered. Check your authentication controller.". I'm not aware of any changes having been made with my hosting company.

I've checked the user table and it all looks fine.

C5 version 8.5
simonchilton replied on at Permalink Reply
simonchilton
Weird. Went to have lunch, when I came back I could log in just fine.
guythomas replied on at Permalink Reply
guythomas
I had the same issue.. I switched over to the https version of the site and got right in.
PaiviK replied on at Permalink Reply
PaiviK
Old tread, but someone might still bump into this problem. I did. Got the same "User is not registered. Check your authentication controller." on mamp. Checked database, and it was as suggested. I could not find the error. Strangely enough I could log in with Safari, not Firefox or Chrome. This gave me a clue.

I had worked with this site last time maybe a year ago. Since that I had moved it in a subfolder in htdocs. It looked fine until i tried to log in. The subfolder's name had an empty space - "old stuff". I moved the site directly under htdocs - and it works now fine.