New web context, can't set password (Lucee 5.2.9.31)

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Hi,
On my Windows Server 2019 I have created a couple of Lucee websites a few months ago, no problems.

Today I have created a new site in IIS, created a new directory, updated the host file, and then browsed to
[domain name]/lucee/admin/web.cfm

I was expecting to see a ‘type password / retype password’ screen. Instead I see a standard login screen as if the password had already been created. WEB-INF is created in the correct folder when I hit the admin screen. (If I delete this folder, then browse to the admin page again, it is recreated.) lucee-web.xml.cfm does not contain a hspw.

If I login to the web context with the admin password, I see the correct webroot and configuration file paths.

Any suggestions?

2

As an additional ‘feature’ of this issue, I am getting “Access is protected” to ANY password that I try. (Apart from the Lucee server password.)

3

Ha! Ha! Solved. ‘Somehow’ (I suspect the browser’s habit of auto completing forms) the “default password” for all web admin had been completed! Pressing the delete button resolved the issue.

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That is really odd. Thank you for taking the time to report back on what the fix was!