By sammy-node on
Uh-oh! Have been doing a lot of configuring and adding and not a lot of backing up.....
Everything was working fine, except then I logged out of the site and there's Drupal's original welcome message displaying on the homepage.
"Welcome to your new Drupal-powered website. This message will guide you through your first steps with Drupal, and will disappear once you have posted your first piece of content............ etc. etc. etc...."
I hope it isn't serious...(!)
I've checked that the permissions are ok for anonymous and athenticated ...
e.g.
Access content
View Panels
access all panel-pages
access all views
Any suggestions as to where to look would be greatly appreciated :)
Comments
front page
assumption: you can still see your sidebars and blocks, and you did not have anything promoted to front page. seems you can still login okay.
are you using a custom front page (not "node")? if so, check to see if it is still set as your default front page. and then, do you have any access control modules in use? if so, check administer >> content management >> post settings to see if you need to rebuild permissions. you may also wish to check caching... anonymous, right?
just fleeting thoughts.
Have narrowed down the problem a little and it's weird..
Thanks for the response - I rebuilt the permissions and made ground also by messing with permissions directly.
It seems that it MIGHT be a permission issue, but not one that looks right to me...
Under ACCESS CONTROL where you edit NODE MODULE - the nodes display if I have ADMINISTER NODES slected for ANONYMOUS USERS (which is clearly not secure!!)
Has anyone seen anything like this before, by any chance??
Any suggestions gratefully received :)
a stab
something to try:
with "administer node" for anonymous disabled;
- go to the access control, un-check "access content" from anonymous, submit, verify that they cannot access, then go back and recheck/resubmit "access content" for anonymous, and see if that works << trying to "jog" the node access table
if that does not work...
- verify that you even have a user/0 (anonymous) in the user table (through phpmyadmin or the like) << based on what you said, don't think this is a problem.
otherwise, some things from search:
http://drupal.org/node/59080#comment-112265 (4.7)
http://drupal.org/node/134505 - manually resetting node access table (4.5) << this one seems favorable, oddly enough
search url: http://drupal.org/search/node/node+access+table+anonymous+missing
More ideas needed to regain Anon access ..... please :)
At this stage I've exhausted my current list of ideas to get my normal content able to be viewed by anon users. All the permissions are correct (I believe) .... Any further suggestions would be warmly recieved :)
Thanks for your reply above TM - the examples you provided are enticeingly close. Unless I've made an error, everything seems ok compared with the examples.
e.g.
I tried resetting permissions off and then on;
I used Brians Update query and so the NODE ACCESS TABLE seems to match
nid 0
gid 0
realm all
grant_view 1
grant_update 0
grant_delete 0
Neither to any luck - and I've struggled to find someone else with a similar problem in the posts...
=-=
When you goto adminsiter -> post setting, is there a button showing to rebuild the access table ?
if yes,
are you running any modules that would affect user access and authentication ?
if so, what are they + versions of them.
_____________________________________________________________________
My posts & comments are usually dripping with sarcasm.
If you ask nicely I'll give you a towel : )
It says Rebuild Permissions, but I think that's what you meant
VeryMisunderstood - I don't know if any of the modules I've selected would affect user access and authentication. I've loaded many modules - most I know a little about but there are also a few are in there for testing later.
A few that I added recently and I think may be candidates are Panels. Category or Views.
Here's the list of mods that you might be able to skim and maybe tell if they impact the user access and authentication??
Ad
Block
Bookmark Us
CAPTCHA
Category
Category access control lite
Category export
Category legacy
Category transform
Comment
Contact
Content Templates
Embed
Filter
Google Analytics
Image Field
Invite
Invite Statistics
Legacy node panes
Legacy views panes
Links
Links Administration
Links Weblink
Mail Editor
Menu
Mime Mail
Mini panels
Node
Node Import
Panel nodes
Panel pages
Panels
Panels exporter
Panels simple cache
Path
Pathauto
Poormanscron
Remote
Scheduler
Search
Send
Site map
Site menu
Subscriptions
System
Taxonomy breadcrumb
Update status
Upload
User
Userlink
Views
Views panes
Views UI
Watchdog
XML Sitemap
=-=
I see you have the category.module involved in your modules.
My testing of this module never proved fruitful, The prject page discusses it's probable bugginess and the issue query for this module shows quite a few problems.
It does indeed come with its own access system Category access control lite.
A) are these all modules that are enabled ?
If category is enabled
B) was the site working properly before category was added and enabled ?
C) if category is disabled and permissions rebuilt does it go back to default behavior ?
_____________________________________________________________________
My posts & comments are usually dripping with sarcasm.
If you ask nicely I'll give you a towel : )
Perfect result - thanks very much
Greatly appreciated your time on this VeryMisunderstood and Tm...
I tried leaving Cat and Tax on (see below), while switched all the other "category" ones off, then rebuilt the permissions table. Site now visible and will have to do some investigating to find similar functionality to the Category stuff.... site finally fixed!
still on - Category
still on - Taxonomy
off - Category access control lite
off - Category bulk edit
off - Category display
off - Category export
off - Category legacy
off - Category menu
off - Category outliner
off - Category pathauto
off - Category transform
off - Category views
a test
try promoting something to the front page and see if the message disappears at all. if it works, i am wondering if you will have to "touch" all content (edit, submit); there may be a module to do this, but don't remember specifically.
TM - good suggestion, that
TM - good suggestion, that didn't occur to me at all, but unfortunately no joy there either...
it appears that your thread
it appears that your thread with VM may be more fruitful, with the reveal of the "category" module thing. good luck with that one...