cant bridge, cant login <_<

[David McKim]

Ok, I had to reinstall my forum. My gallery previously was infact bridged with my forum and I disabled people being able to register because its bridged. Well since I reinstalled phpbb. My gallery thinks its still bridged but its not. If I click login it takes me to the forum to login then I click it to login but then it takes me to my gallery again but I am not logged in. I read about the bridge manager but since I cant login at all how am I suppose to fix my issue? I hope I dont have to reinstall coppermine but if I do is there a way for me to back up my files first?

Damn I wish this didnt happen, so many problems lately.

Here is my gallery http://www.garbagewars.com/gallery/

Please help me fix this, Im guessing maybe there are files I can manually edit to fix this or at least let me login?

[Sami]

http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/index.htm#bridge_manager_recover_start

[David McKim]

ok thanks for that link but how can I back up the database or err I want to back up everything, all of the images,comments, etc. Cause I plan on reinstalling my gallery and I dont want to lose all of the files that were submitted.

[Sami]

Use databse tools under your hosting control panel (if you have) Or use phpmyadmin and use Export command

[Joachim Müller]

See Tools recommended by the devs. There's no need for a fresh install though, coppermine is not a desktop app that you un-install and re-install to fix issues. Keep your existing install, back up everything (because it's always good to have a backup you can go back to in case things go wrong) and then modify as you see fit. If you think you have messed up the code, re-upload the coppermine files as if you were performing an upgrade.