Login Problem After DNN database Restoring

Dear All
If you are facing the problem in login after restoring database the reason is the machine key is not matching.

This problem arrived because you are restore the whole website from server to workstations so because of this you will face two problems

1) Login accounts not working
2) Pages will not show

for 2nd problem please check my previous blog
http://bestvisualization.blogspot.com/2012/05/pages-are-not-accessing-after-restoring.html

for login you need to resolve it like this

1) Register with the normal user
2) Open the database table users
3) Assign this user as super host  (Please read this post if you don't know about this step http://bestvisualization.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-reset-dot-net-nuke-dnn-host.html)
4) Close the database
5) Login with the new user
6) Go to admin > user accounts
7) Click on the pencil and click on password manager
8) Click on the Reset password (system generated random one)
9) Once it done you can assign your own password

After that you will successfully login with the same users

If you want to get rid of all this issue then restore the dnn in the same OS

Like if your orignal dnn version is running on server then restore it on server other wise follow the above steps

I hope this post helps you and save you huge time because i already spend allot of time on it :D

Regard
Rashid Imran Bilgrami
CEO
Best visualization
http://www.bestvisualization.com