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By rgmerk on
I recently upgraded my Drupal site from 4.1 to 4.3.2 (yes I know it's out of date, it's the one in Debian testing).
I have configured it to allow anonymous users comment posting without approval. Anonymous comments, however, don't seem to be working, while comments from logged-in users are. As an anonymous user, you can preview your comment, and it looks fine, but when you post the comment, when you return to the front page, the comments count for that story has increased by one, but the comment isn't there!
Looking through the administrator messages, there doesn't seem to be any record of comments being added, or any other error messages, or anything to indicate an anonymous user ever attempted to post a comment.
When I grep the MYSQL database files, it does appear that the body of the attempted comment appears in there, but I don't know enough SQL or enough about the drupal database schema to figure out what's wrong.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Failing that, how can I get a snapshot of the comment and story database so I can import the history into a fresh install of drupal?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions you're able to provide.
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