Hi, I am absolutely a beginner but installed Coppermine for my daughter to her site to showcase her art/pictures. She hasn't made any changes (knows even less than I do) and asked me to update some things today. When I went to log in to her site today, I get the following message (same as this thread topic) "You Are Currently Banned From Using This Site".
As far as I know I have installed any Coppermine updates whenever I received an email so I am not sure why this is saying that. I found the "solution" to this problem here:
Empty the bans table using phpmyadmin or Open the config table with PHPMyAdmin and increase the value for login_threshold.
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=73863.0
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=53643.0
I have no idea what they are talking about or how to go about using or accessing PHPAdmin
I don't have Sql or Php on my computer and not a clue as to the first thing to go about resolving it.
Is there a link someone can point me to that is fairly user friendly for a non programmer?
Thank you very much.
Okay so did some self education :) and went onto my webhost site (GoDaddy) and looked up how to access the PHPMyAdmin in the sites SQL database. I can access it but once inside having no experience with SQL or PHP When I try doing a "query" about banned files it tells me my syntax is incorrect. Is there any easy way to reset or delete this to resolve my problem? I started reading the usermanual for PHP but seriously I am way in over my head.
Thanks again.
Splitted from http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,73863.0.html
In PHPMyAdmin, locate the the banned table, click on the 'browse icon' and then on 'Empty' at the top right.
And make sure you backup your database first ;)