now installed but where is the home page that visitors view to signup at

By jasonpc on 27 Sep 2006 at 01:19 UTC

I have now setup everything i think but i can not work out how my visitors will sign up and start using this blogger?

when i visit mysite.com/blog i get

Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page.

Where am i going wrong now?

please can someone advise.

thanks

Jason

Comments

They must first register

vm commented 27 September 2006 at 01:31

They must first register with your site. either using the loginblock or going to the register page. user/register.
you must have the blog.module activated.
once the above two things are tackled, user will click on create content -> blog entry

Check your access

bdragon commented 27 September 2006 at 01:34

Check your access controls.

administer >> settings >> access control

Also, the user login/registration/whatever interface is at /user.

A few things.

Tresler commented 27 September 2006 at 05:47

Lets pick this apart one issue at a time.

First off you need to login as admin - that is the first user that you created. The first user (admin) has access to everything, so if you are getting the above warning, then you aren't there yet. You can go to http:/ /mysite.com/user to login

Second - once you are logged in an navigation menu will appear. You want to go to Administer --> Access control.
This is where you set who can see and do what on your site. If users need to have an account to create blog entries, but not to read them then you want to check the box for 'edit own blog' on 'authenticated user' but not on 'anonymous user'
Also, down the page you'll find under the 'node' section 'access content' Check the anonymous user box to let anyone read blogs and get rid of your access denied message (we hope.

Third - Creating new acounts. Navigate to Admin -> Settings -> Users (different than admin->users). And set how people can create accounts, and edit their various welcome messages. If you want to create acounts to be sent to users - thats when you want to go to admin->users.

And finally, just a note, drupal is much much more than just a blogger. I'm not just trying to blow the drupal horn here, but if all you need is a blog, and don't want to learn what all the other things in that admin list are, then be careful messing around with their settings. Drupal works great as a blogger, but can be scary to new users because it can be 100 other things unrelated to a blog, as well.

Glad you got things up and running Good Luck!

Sam Tresler
http://www.treslerdesigns.com

nope nothing!! I

jasonpc commented 27 September 2006 at 11:16

nope nothing!!

I visit

www.sitename.com/user nothing
www.sitename.com/drupal/index.php stil nothing

both show i am not authouised to view the page.

i did set it up ok i think yesterday, and was in the admin but then came back to it later and nothing worked. no admin pages?

checked the Databases and all looks ok there my details are there.

what can i be missing?

do i have to create my own home pages and stuff but include the moduals in my pages? hope not!

i have read just now looking around the net that other are having problems installing it, it can not be that hard surely, i am not an expert but the install instruction show you what to do and i followed them very will i must add.

but something is still not right i can not get to admin pages anymore? :-(

please help

thank you so much in advance for your support so far.

Jason

Apologies

Tresler commented 27 September 2006 at 14:57

I'd forgotten. You probably haven't turned on clean URLs yet. add /?q= in front of those URL's

so to get to /blog or /user it is

http:/ /mysite.com/?q=blog
http:/ /mysite.com/?q=user

That should get you there - and if that is the problem and you can get in you can then click - from the navigation menu- Admin -> Settings There will be a expandable section called 'general settings' You'll want to 'Run the clean URL test' and provided it comes back ok enable clean url's then you won't need to use the ?q= part

Post bacl if this works for you. Thanks!

Sam Tresler
http://www.treslerdesigns.com