No menu on administer page after otherwise successful install

By werdnerd on 12 Apr 2005 at 18:08 UTC

I have searched for other support items to solve my problem, but the only one that comes close to describing the problem is this one: http://drupal.org/node/1550

The proposed solution does not work for me.

I have installed the latest release candidate of 4.6 and from my main page, when I click on "administration section" or "set up your site's configuration" I am brought to the administer screen on which all of the system events are displayed, but there is no menu or other links available. The only configuration that I have available is located under "Edit primary links" and "Edit secondary links". Perhaps I've missed out on something really basic, but after reading the installation guides and looking through the support archives, I still can't seem to figure out how to continue the configuration of my site.

Any hints??

Comments

welcome to Drupal

sepeck commented 12 April 2005 at 20:00

Please note, there is a slight learning curve and Drupal does not have an 'admin center' as such. Take a look at this article to give you an idea of some of the steps.
http://support.bryght.com/adminguide/how-to/dynamic-web20-brochure-site-...

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same problems with current cvs

drupal999 commented 13 April 2005 at 17:00

I was running yesterday on cvs now after deletion of all tables and update of tables using CVS database.mysql and updating all code to CVS I can no longer use the system after adding the first admin account. Links on the intro page work to display the item but not the whole configurated page as before, no navigation, blocks etc.

Is this related to my post?

bomarmonk commented 13 April 2005 at 17:23

I just posted my recent problems after updating...
http://drupal.org/node/20443

i think there is actually a problem...

werdnerd commented 13 April 2005 at 19:35

Hello,

Thanks for your reply. I do understand that I have to build a template, and so on. That is not my problem.

All of the documentation that I have encountered so far concerning DRUPAL indicated that there's supposed to be some sort of basic menu on the administration page including items such as "settings" and "modules". This menu does not appear on my administration page. Are you completely certain that this is working properly?

I'm new to DRUPAL but do have some experience working with other CMS.

If this of any help, you can check out a screen shot of my admin page at this URL :

http://www.matthewhodgins.ca/images/drupal/admin.jpg

Working on my setup

bomarmonk commented 13 April 2005 at 19:43

I have the latest CVS files (Drupal 4.6), and my admin menu works (after updating the database according to my previously mentioned thread). Hard to say if you are having a similar problem, as I made a very specific mistake during my updates. You could always check that you have also updated the database...

hmm

werdnerd commented 13 April 2005 at 19:48

well, the update is to be used when updating from a previous version of DRUPAL, right? this is a fresh install with a new database and 4.6. Do I still need to run an update script ?

I wouldn't think so...

bomarmonk commented 13 April 2005 at 20:19

I had a working install of 4.6 and after making some recent updates that were made to CVS, logging into my site wouldn't allow me to see anything (in other words, I was making manual updates of my previous 4.6 files with the ones in CVS).

Updating the database did fix this problem.

As for the 4.6 tarball, I guess it is updated twice a day? (someone with more knowledge can correct me on this) And I'm sure any updates to the database would be included... so I wouldn't think there would be a need to "update" the database with a fresh install.

Your problem must be different than the one I experienced. I was suspecting some relationship between our problems because of the time that they appeared and the fact that they were both associated with not being able to see menus, etc, in 4.6.

definitely a problem

werdnerd commented 13 April 2005 at 20:44

i checked out the DRUPAL demo admin screen at opensourceCMS and I am definitely missing the left-hand administrative menu system. there is no place to log in and out either, nor create content.

can anybody help?

i'm running CVS(4.6) with PHP5 on Apache2. Right now my server is operating under Windows XP. I have two virtual servers running on two different mySQL databases:

http://www.matthewhodgins.ca is running in one directory using MAMBO CMS

and http://www.matthewhodgins.ca:8080 is running in another parallel directory using DRUPAL.

Any further guidance will be much appreciated!

still no answer

werdnerd commented 14 April 2005 at 18:11

Hello !!

Would somebody please take a second to help me? I've spent a day and a half trying to find an answer all over the net and this is really discouraging! I'm not familiar with DRUPAL, but I'm not a total newbie either, and this just doesn't make any sense to me. From what I gather, DRUPAL is supposed to generate a very basic administrative menu on the left-hand side of the homepage with Login/out, Settings, Modules, Create Content, etc. My stack CMS-PHP-MySQL seems to be working just fine, but I don't have any such menu. Can somebody please at least confirm whether or not I'm supposed to have a basic menu block like this to perform basic site configuration??

Thank you!

I don't have an answer...

stevensj2 commented 14 April 2005 at 18:20

But I would just like to clarify that it is a problem, as I too am seeing the very same thing with the latest RC.

On the bluemarine theme it works fine, but w/ friends electric the sidebar is displaying the actual code rather than parsing it.

I beleive it is a problem arising with the new RC and current phptemplate engine.

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no admin menu

werdnerd commented 14 April 2005 at 18:30

Regardless of the theme that I use, I do not have any sidebar OR actual code. I did install the phptemplate engine, but the problem that I am experiencing arises immediately upon installation, before adding any additional modules. When I follow the links in the body text of the initial welcome screen, I manage to get to the "Administer" screen, but all that I see is system events. There is absolutely no trace whatsoever of a menu system for creating content, tracking users, etc. I believe that all of these functionalities are present and operational, but in order to reach them I must type in the URL, and the only way to do that is to guess it correctly or to find an example on the net.

Thanks for replying.

I have no idea why the block

killes@www.drop.org commented 14 April 2005 at 18:27

I have no idea why the block is not displayed at your site. It works for me at my sites. But when I tried to create a user account at your site I got this message:

warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in ...

I suggest setting up sendmail, because Drupal sends out password through email.

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ok !

werdnerd commented 14 April 2005 at 18:31

OK, thanks for looking in to this. I'll begin by setting up the sendmail.

done

werdnerd commented 14 April 2005 at 18:38

OK - I believe the sendmail function is now working.

update...

werdnerd commented 14 April 2005 at 21:18

The sendmail function is now operational. Still no menu-system for the admin pages.

Perhaps somebody could direct me to decisive documentation about standard PHP5 and Apache2 configurations for 4.6RC. Perhaps there are other settings that I need to change ...

update

werdnerd commented 15 April 2005 at 12:53

still seeking an answer to this issue ...

Same here dead in the

drupal999 commented 15 April 2005 at 18:40

Same here dead in the water..... My sendmail works fine not the problem. I had drupal rc working just fine last week and now it has stopped. No admin menus but I can change the themes from one to another just fine.

Today, I'm trying once again

werdnerd commented 15 April 2005 at 20:35

Today, I'm trying once again to install DRUPAL entirely from scratch. When loading the database architecture, I get the following error messages. These messages show up each time that I've tried to install. Are these messages related to the problem that I'm experiencing ??

Warning: Do not know how to handle this statement at line 799:
REPLACE variable SET name='update_start', value='s:10:"2005-03-21";';
Ignoring this statement. Please file a bug-report including the statement if this statement should be recognized.

Warning: Do not know how to handle this statement at line 800:
REPLACE variable SET name='theme_default', value='s:10:"bluemarine";';
Ignoring this statement. Please file a bug-report including the statement if this statement should be recognized.

Warning: Do not know how to handle this statement at line 802:
REPLACE blocks SET module = 'user', delta = '0', status = '1';
Ignoring this statement. Please file a bug-report including the statement if this statement should be recognized.

Warning: Do not know how to handle this statement at line 803:
REPLACE blocks SET module = 'user', delta = '1', status = '1';
Ignoring this statement. Please file a bug-report including the statement if this statement should be recognized.

still no access to admin panel on fresh 4.6 install

werdnerd commented 15 April 2005 at 20:47

OK - I've installed the first 4.6 release and the site/database is operational but I STILL CANNOT ACCESS THE ADMINISTRATION PANEL!

more info ... from Apache error log

werdnerd commented 15 April 2005 at 21:21

[client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined index: module in F:\\www\\drupal.matthewhodgins.ca\\includes\\bootstrap.inc on line 86
[client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined index: module in F:\\www\\drupal.matthewhodgins.ca\\includes\\bootstrap.inc on line 335
[client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined index: filter in F:\\www\\drupal.matthewhodgins.ca\\includes\\bootstrap.inc on line 93
[client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined index: statistics in F:\\www\\drupal.matthewhodgins.ca\\includes\\bootstrap.inc on line 335
[client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined index: system in F:\\www\\drupal.matthewhodgins.ca\\includes\\bootstrap.inc on line 335
[client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined index: system in F:\\www\\drupal.matthewhodgins.ca\\includes\\bootstrap.inc on line 93
[client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined index: user in F:\\www\\drupal.matthewhodgins.ca\\includes\\bootstrap.inc on line 335
[client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined index: user in F:\\www\\drupal.matthewhodgins.ca\\includes\\bootstrap.inc on line 93
[client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined index: watchdog in F:\\www\\drupal.matthewhodgins.ca\\includes\\bootstrap.inc on line 335
[client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined index: watchdog in F:\\www\\drupal.matthewhodgins.ca\\includes\\bootstrap.inc on line 93

I think this code must be related to the failure of the admin panel to appear on my site. Can anybody tell me how to fix BOOTSTRAP.INC ?

more from error logs

werdnerd commented 15 April 2005 at 21:36

the previous errors were from the virtual host error log.

these ones are from the server's main error log:

Cannot find module (IP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (IF-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (TCP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (UDP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMPv2-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMPv2-SMI): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (UCD-SNMP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (UCD-DEMO-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-TARGET-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (UCD-DLMOD-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-MPD-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMPv2-TM): At line 0 in (none)

Some guidance anybody ???

Is it posible that your web

sepeck commented 15 April 2005 at 21:57

Is it posible that your web host is using that admin alias for something else?

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i am hosting my own site

werdnerd commented 16 April 2005 at 02:36

my site is hosted on my desktop with a fixed IP address. that's why this may indeed be a problem related to my apache settings or even with something in my network, but i've experimented with many different variables and don't believe this to be the case. therefore, although i'm not sure i fully understand your question, i think the answer is probably "no".

day four of installation problem

werdnerd commented 16 April 2005 at 20:06

Hello!

I must say, I'm a little bit surprised and disappointed that an eager newcomer to DRUPAL has not received more encouragement than this. I'd really like to get the system up and running on my desktop so that I can go and help some community groups to rebuild their sites using a solid CMS, but that's not easy to do if I can't even figure out how to gain access to the administration panel. I realise that open source solutions do not automatically come with unpaid technical support, but I've asked a few very straightforward questions and nobody has taken the time to provide clear answers, just a couple of much-appreciated shots in the dark.

If somebody would please take a moment to reply to my very basic questions, I would find that encouraging!

1. am I correct in believing that there should be an administration panel that seems to be missing from my install ?

2. are there any PHP5 or APACHE2 settings that are very important and that might be causing the admin panel not to appear if incorrectly configured?

3. are the cited error messages indicative of a specific problem (undefined index ...) ?

Thank you once again in advance to anybody who can offer some guidance.

The "admin menu" appears in

boris mann commented 16 April 2005 at 20:52

The "admin menu" appears in a block to the left/right (like the column at right here on Drupal.org). You should be able to manually navigate to admin/settings. From the screenshot, it looks like your sidebar blocks are turned off. Go to admin/block and make sure that there is an enabled checkbox next to the "Navigation" block. Then there is an entire "administer" menu underneath which you have access to everything.

Shawn Tucker
Canada