By Yorgg on

Hi everybody!

I am running a local drupal 5.x lamp on my computer, after successfully login, the administration link vanished from the page.
The admin sweeped out from navigation, neither It seems to be possible to go to any of admin page.

I have seen this happening to me before and then I though if this time I could make sure to have a different administrator theme, after login in, I would have all the fields correctly displayed. I understand some themes omit certain types of data, that is why I made sure the administrator theme to be the 5.x original, just in case. If you over-ride the url to the admin, the theme actually changes to the administrator back-end but the access is denied! After login in, it simply logs in as a normal user and you would be able to comment a page.

Even if I try to go to a specific part of the administrator functionality, access is denied.

Is the password wrong if I haven't changed it? I keep firefox to deal with this and I even use the master password before-hand.
I am afraid to request another password if my apache can't send the e-mail. I haven't tested mail with drupal, but I know joomla was doing it.

This is the second time it happens to me, the first time I quit the installation.

p.s. I have run successfully done a cron earlier today.

Regards,
Jorge.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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Yorgg’s picture

Yorgg commented

lol
oh crap, what's the difference between /q?=admin and /q?=user
the first one is denied by default even if you login with the right password, although if you login /q?=user problem's fixed!
the troubleshooting was right after all, why didn't I do that first?

:)

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shubby commented

hello

i got the same kind of problem here, when i publish a forum topic or blog entry, it gets saved, but after pressing the button save, next screen comes stating "Access Denied", You are not authorized to access this page. plz help
Thanks

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llolla25 commented

Did anyone find a solution?
I cannot login either and when I request a new password for any of the accounts, the access is still denied. I tried a lot of suggested fixes, but none worked for me so far. I am using Drupal 6.

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sgprs commented

Have you tried going to yoursite.com/user? That almost always works. Another thing to do is to change your login url. For example: If you pull your site up using http://www.yoursite.com, try using http://yoursite.com... and vice-versa. If one url lets you login and the other doesn't, then you need to go in and have the url that does not let you login redirect to the one that does. In other words, if you can login using www.yoursite.com, but not yoursite.com, then have yoursite.com redirect to http://www.yoursite.com.

I had the same issue and that solved my problem. I actually have no login link on the front page of my new site I'm developing, so I use site.com/user and everything works like a charm. Try that: Go to the alternate url and try to login from there.

Try those and see. If not, we'll go another route.

Chris

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ndenhild commented

Thanks, your tip worked for me!

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aidcintl commented

Hi Chris,
I followed your suggestions and I am still getting this awful error message after I logged out from my admin id.
I am using 6.x and I installed with Fantastico.

Your help would be really appreciated.
Janvier

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rudejournal.net commented

I have struggled with this error, and here's the scoop - and what fixed it for me.

I am using a hosting provider, not my own unix box. The entire issue happens when an older version of PHP is installed on the box. All I had to do was delete Drupal completely off the box and install an older version of Drupal. In my case, instead of Drupal 7, I went back to 6... and voila - worked perfectly.

I certainly hope this helps someone else from tearing out their hair like i did.

Best of luck,

Sasha Rude
RudeJournal.net

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Byrond1 commented

Thanks for the suggestion "Have you tried going to yoursite.com/user?" It worked for me and I thought I lost everything.

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jebernier commented

Have been trying all the other options, clear cache and session tables, run update.php and nothing worked.

Found you post and IT WORKED.

It's 11:30 PM, and I can finally go to bed happy!

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cbh commented

I've tried all these solutions with no luck. If I log in with the lost password mail link I can see the /user/1 url in my browser, but get "You are not authorized to access this page message." I'm stuck.

For some reason, doing a fresh install (drupal6) and restoring the original database works - but it did last time, and now here I am again. Current Drupal 6 version and all my modules are current as well:

backup_migrate
ctools
gallery_assist
gallery_assist_lightboxes
gallery_assist_views
jquery_ui
lightbox2
more_node_buttons
poormanscron
views
vote_up_down
votingapi

Any help would be appreciated as we've put a boatload of work into this site and are on a very tight timeline.

Thanks
Chris

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promes
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commented

If you cannot login, i.e. you get a access denied page after login and you see xxxx/user/1 as the url, probably you don't accept cookies at this moment.