Matrix Demo on VM : Root user account disabled

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We use Matrix at our workplace. Recently Matrix 5 was released and I tried to take a test drive on my personal laptop. I installed everything as according to http://manuals.matrix.squizsuite.net/evaluate-squiz-matrix

 

When I tried to login on this page http://matrixdemo.squiz.net/_admin/ using root/root

 

I got this error .....  Root User account is disabled in this system

 

I tried in Chrome, Firefox & IE.

 

 

Can anyone please help .... ?

 

Thanks

 

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On the VM, log into the terminal as root (like what you did in the manuals) and go to the matrix home directory (I think it is located at /var/www/matrix). Then load up main.inc in an editor (eg. vim data/private/conf/main.inc or nano data/private/conf/main.inc) and change SQ_CONF_ROOT_USER_DISABLED from 1 to 0. This should enable the root user again. For more information, read: http://manuals.matrix.squizsuite.net/server-administrator/chapters/annotated-main.inc#user-settings

3

That's weird, that setting is not on by default, and was not on when I tested the evaluation VM. If anyone else gets this issue as well after setting up and installing the VM, please post here. 

4

Thanks all for your replies, but I just re-installed VM and everything is now working ok.