By jostein on

Seems to be a common error, but noone has yet to give a answer to the problem.

-Installed Drupal 6.2 with no errors.
-Recived e-mail with link to login.
-Clicked link, got to a page that sais "Welcome to your new Drupal website!", "Please follow these steps to set up and start using your website:"

-Now, when i click the top link on step 1, "Administer, Content management" I get the "Access denied" error. The funny thing though is that the website is lacking CSS, its just "plain" white/blue HTML like i nthe screenshot.

I assume that since the install went fine and I can see the db tables everything there is ok.
I assume the PHP is working fine since the install worked.
I checked the settings.php and the db_url is set correctly by the script, and so is the base_url.

I can log in just fine, and see the menu and all that stuff, but when I try to click on anything that opens a new "mainpage" (like "create content", "coment" etc) I get the access denied window and cant log in.

Anyone have a "manual" install guide for 6.2 ? Its a shame if its failing because of a faulty autoinstaller.

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jostein commented

forgot to add the screenshot...

http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=accessjr6.jpg

faqing’s picture

faqing commented

Your hosting provider does not support Drupal 6, which requires more CPU and RAM.

jostein’s picture

jostein commented

Is this a guess or is this fact?

Havent seen anyone else mentioned this.

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faqing commented

I had this problem before. I solved it by adding php_value memory_limit 30M in .htaccess file. Maybe your case is different.

Read here: http://thanhsiang.org/faqing/node/95

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robertdouglass commented

30M is a good recommendation for normal Drupal sites. If you have less than 16M you should worry. If the host cannot accommodate more then the assertion that the hosting provider cannot support Drupal 6 is true, but this reflects badly on the host more than anything.

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robertdouglass commented

Your hosting provider does not support Drupal 6, which requires more CPU and RAM.

I doubt this is the case.

- Robert Douglass

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HotDrupal.com commented

Doubt it's a faulty autoinstaller, never had a problem with any of my customers installing 6.2

Probably a host issue with some php setting or software version.

Steve
HotDrupal.com - Drupal Ready Hosting

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zirvap commented

I don't have any ideas for what's wrong, but since you asked for a manual install guide: http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install, as well as a couple of screencasts.

I've seen quite a lot of forum posts from people having problems with autoinstallers -- if I were you I'd try a manual install, just in case.

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jostein commented

that is the normal install guide, using the installer script. that is the once I cant get to work.

robertdouglass’s picture

robertdouglass commented

I can't see from the picture, but I'm looking for the structure of your URL: http://www.example.com/?q=user

I'm particularly interested in the bold parts. I want to see if the login form is redirecting to a slightly different domain than where the page redirects to. It could be that you need to set the cookie domain in settings.php:

 * If you are experiencing issues with different site domains,
 * You might also want to force users to use a given domain.
 * based on on its full domain name. If you have multiple domains pointing at
 * the same Drupal site, you can either redirect them all to a single domain
 * shared base domain. Doing so assures that users remain logged in as they
 * cross between your various domains.
# $cookie_domain = 'example.com';

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lionheart8 commented

May be the "autoinstallers" referred to as being troublesome are those in Fantastico & other similar Cpanel-based multiple-script installers. There are some issues referred to in different forum posts, like problems with upgrading, etc.
It's better to do the installation "manually" and the upgrade as well.

The Drupal installer itself however works perfectly ...

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G-Sun commented

I have the same problem on Drupal 6.3.
Can log in , but no admin-pages are available to me.

Tried: php_value memory_limit 30M in .htaccess file , but didn't work.
Also tried: register_shutdown_function('session_write_close'); in settings.php, no luck

I used the autoinstaller (I guess..)

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zirvap commented

lionheart8 was right, I meant Fantastico and similar in my post, not the Drupal autoinstaller.

After some searching, I found these posts, which may (or may not...) help:

http://drupal.org/node/264520#comment-875493
http://drupal.org/node/266642