[support] Access Denied when trying to create first account

[sander-martijn]

First two things to check are that your database user has the correct 
permissions.  Second thing i would do is clear all my cookies related to 
that site and try again as well as trying from different 
computers/browsers.

ext237 ext237 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We've installed several successful Drupal sites on other servers, but
> having a difficult couple of days with a new install.  After the
> install is complete, and we click on the link to create the first
> admin user/pass, everything seems to be going ok.  When we click to
> save the new user/pass, we expect to see the message to check our
> email for user/pass.  Instead, we get the standard login screen.
> 
> We get the actual email, and when we click the email and get the page
> with the "login" button, clicking it results in the "Access Denied"
> page.
> 
> When trying to log in via the usual user/pass combo, we go back to the
> normal first page with the username & password fields still there.
> The watchdog table seems to indicate we logged in correctly.
> 
> We've reinstalled Drupal several times, and cleaned out the
> database/reinstalled.   I've checked the forums, but the issues that
> seem related are about Drupal 4.x.
> 
> Here's our setup, what are we missing?
> 
> Drupal 5.3
> MySQL 5.0
> PHP 5.2.5
> Apache2.2
> Windows2003 Server
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Joe