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avatar Milo-W
Milo-W
16 Sep 2025

Steps to reproduce the issue

  1. Try to install Joomla 5.3.3.
  2. At the "give admin info" page add stuff, add wrong password specs, like not complicated enough (or character length). It shows a grey message which is not really visible.
  3. It lets you go through. You add the database info, etc.
  4. It gets blocked with a screen without possibility to come back saying the admin password doesn't meet validation.

Expected result

It shouldn't allow going further from the "give admin details" when the password doesn't meet validation rules.

Actual result

Goes through, blocks later, without possibility to come back.

System information (as much as possible)

Normal environment, Joomla 5 installed with 5.2.x or something was allright. Don't remember.

Additional comments

Might be 5.3.3 characteristic.

avatar Milo-W Milo-W - open - 16 Sep 2025
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avatar richard67
richard67 - comment - 16 Sep 2025

It gets blocked with a screen without possibility to come back saying the admin password doesn't meet validation.

@Milo-W You can't use the back button (arrow left) of your browser to go back?

avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 17 Sep 2025

If I enter a password for the admin user that is too short I immediately get a message that it is too short etc

But yes I can ignore that and proceed to the database section and then you do get stuck at the end. Its a single page and its a known issue that you cannot go back at the end - you have to restart

Please can you post some screenshots as I am unable to replicate the grey message that is hard to read that you describe.

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avatar chmst
chmst - comment - 18 Sep 2025

@Milo-W could you give information about your system environment? Browser? OS? What do you mean with grey message?

avatar chmst
chmst - comment - 18 Sep 2025

@brianteeman I cannot find the issue. But recently thought that any error should go back to top. Was there a reason why we don't do that?

avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 18 Sep 2025

@chmst there are other issues about this. I think one was from @HLeithner
If you ignore the warning about a weak password and continue the rest of the installation steps then you end up with this page

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avatar chmst
chmst - comment - 18 Sep 2025

Thank you, was not aware of this us case.

avatar QuyTon
QuyTon - comment - 22 Sep 2025

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