By grad005 on

I need some help figuring out what kind of an issue I have gotten myself into: I am learning about setting up a web server using drupal 4.6.3, mysqld, php and phpmyadmin. Currently have a problem where I do not have any log-in option on the front page to be able to administer the site or make changes. When I tried to to bring up the site http://192.168.1.102/drupal/?q=admin/themes/settings I get the following:
Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page. and I dont seem to have any log-in option.
Can some one please tell me what the issue is. I am just learning how ???

I appreciate any response.

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pobster’s picture

pobster commented

I believe you can go to:

http://192.168.1.102/user

To manually bring up the log in page.

You've probably just deleted/ disabled the block that the log in appears in.

Pobster

grad005’s picture

grad005 commented

Thanks for the response, I will try that now, else I will just re-install everything over again.

I do appreciate it.

winaje’s picture

winaje commented

I'd started to panic, haha

Which block would the login option appear in, please?

Will

drupal777’s picture

drupal777 commented

Usually, it is in a block by itself, called User Login. You can usually find it by going to Administer->Blocks. You can then decide where to put the block (that is, into which region).

{rant mode}What I don't see often enough (because I've never really seen it ;-)) is the fact that the way Drupal is functionally organized typically is as follows:

Page
...Region
......Block
.........Node

This is confusing to most because Drupal decided, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, to name one of their content types as "Page". It isn't really a "Page" it is "Just another plain old Drupal content type", like a story or a blog entry or... anything else that one can think of for which there usually is a separate module.{/rant mode}

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lesliee commented

I used Admin to move my log-in to header with theme Grodini - and then logged out to test it. Now the log-in menu is gone. I tried going to http://www.free-soup.com/user - (as per this suggestion) but it says page not found.

Is there anything else I can do?

webpage is:
http://www.free-soup.com

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks - a complete and total newbie!

Leslie

einsteinsboi’s picture

einsteinsboi commented

http://www.free-soup.com/?q=user

should get you in

lesliee’s picture

lesliee commented

Perfect - apparently the syntax changed between one version of drupal and the next. I'm using 6 - this works. Thanks for the help.

einsteinsboi’s picture

einsteinsboi commented

If you have clean urls enabled then /user should work.

Glad I could help.

Cheers!

thirdangel’s picture

thirdangel commented

tried http://localhost/drupal/?q=admin
and got access denied.

tried http://localhost/drupal/admin
and got access denied.

Is there another way to get to a login screen?

One thing this has taught me is NOT to use admin as a user name since it is the same as the /drupal/admin page and I think that is causing some of the problem.

thanks

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thirdangel commented

I finally figured it out. I wish I could remember the post but the gist is

yoursite.com/user/login

where you use the word user not your username. This brings you to a login page.

cheers

thirdangel’s picture

thirdangel commented

I finally figured it out. I wish I could remember the post but the gist is

yoursite.com/user/login

where you use the word user not your username. This brings you to a login page.

cheers