persistant default page

By b-dawg on 9 Jan 2007 at 20:50 UTC

my logged in users are not shown the postings in the general blog and instead are shown the default start page for drupal. What could this mean?

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means you havent published

VM commented 9 January 2007 at 20:58

means you havent published anything to your front page , or assigned a node to be your front page in administer -> settings -> default front page.

If you want users redirected to the blogs upon login, there are a few modules that can help. login redirect and logintoboggan both are in the downloads area.

you could also look into the frontpage.module which may be of benefit and also in the downloads area.

in the case that you meant anonymous users, and not logged in users, have a look at this handbook page. http://drupal.org/node/64114

I do have promoted-published content

b-dawg commented 9 January 2007 at 21:50

but only the admins can view it

Do they have the permission to view the content?

tdimg commented 9 January 2007 at 21:33

Check administer > access control > and search for the content type and whether they've got the permission to view the content type.

they have node access

b-dawg commented 9 January 2007 at 21:48

is that the same?

no they need content access.

VM commented 9 January 2007 at 23:39

no they need content access. or you will have to create a node and force it to be your front page.

content access you say

b-dawg commented 10 January 2007 at 01:50

I don't see content access as an option. what am i missing?

administer -> access

VM commented 10 January 2007 at 19:36

administer -> access control

scroll down to node module and check mark access content.

on the other hand this may be what you are calling "node access" ; if so please calrify.

no content access check box

b-dawg commented 10 January 2007 at 20:20

access content is not an option in the default installation of drupal in the access control section of the administer menu.

wait I found it

b-dawg commented 10 January 2007 at 20:22

I found access content, but that has been checked all along. if I let then administer nodes then the users can see them but that is the only time?!

yes,

b-dawg commented 10 January 2007 at 20:26

that is what I was calling node access, I have that box checked and still auth users can see no content. not even stuff that they create. I have tried checking and un-checking... nothing good to report.

what do you already have set

VM commented 10 January 2007 at 20:38

what do you already have set as default front page in administer -> settings -> default front page: should be set as

what contrinbuted modules do you have installed? and enabled? please provide a full list or a screen capture of your modules page and yoru access control page..

front_page

b-dawg commented 10 January 2007 at 21:04

I have it set to front_page as per the front page module and that part works fine for guests but always sends auth users with out node admin privilages to the "welcome to drupal page"??

id does not show me "access denied"

b-dawg commented 10 January 2007 at 20:35

as it would if I didn't have access content marked, but instead shows me the "welcome to drupal" even if there is promoted content.

please answer the questions

VM commented 10 January 2007 at 20:40

please answer the questions above with regards to "other" contributed modules you have installed as well as provide a list of your access controls.

I cannot replicate your situtaion on 4.7.4 or 4.7.5.

insure that all files were uploaded as intended, including but not limited to .htaccess. compare your installtion with a default download and insure all files are present and accounted for.

I have a screen shot

b-dawg commented 10 January 2007 at 20:51

can I post it here?

version

b-dawg commented 10 January 2007 at 20:54

the site has been up about a year so I'm using version 4.* I'm afraid to update to the latest because I fear loosing customizations to this website that I won't remember how to replace or fix. The site is pretty basic with a few contrib mods and a semi-custom theme based on getfirefox

mods

b-dawg commented 10 January 2007 at 21:01

aggregator module
access news feeds is checked

block module
use PHP for block visibility

blog module
edit own blog

comment module
access comments
post comments
post comments without approval

feedback module
can send feedback

filebrowser module
access filebrowser

filter module

graphstat module

menu module

node module
access content

notify module
access notify

path module
create url aliases

privatemsg module
access private messages

search module
search content

statistics module

subscriptions module
maintain subscriptions

system module

taxonomy module

upload module
view uploaded files

user module
access user profiles
change own username

htaccess

b-dawg commented 10 January 2007 at 21:02

do you think that blowing out htaccess is the answer or will that just mess me up?

did you at any time have an

VM commented 10 January 2007 at 21:17

did you at any time have an access.module installed ? like simple access ? taxonomy access ? tac_lite ?

While I am sorry to hear that you did not make notations on changes you may have made, Not updating you site, leaves you open to security holes that have been fixed, inperticular with cross site scripting. I would highly suggest you reconsider.

are teh contributed (not core) modules up to date ?
did you do anything previous to the problem being noticed ?

to post screen captures to the forum, upload the file to yourserver or to flikr or photobucket and paste the link to the forum.

anything out of the oridinary in your apache error logs stored on your host ?

I'm running out of possibilities based on my experience. At some stage you may have to give someone more familiar your drupal admin username and password and let them have a look see.

you could also upload the most recent release of Drupal 4.7.5 and test it to see if the problem is host related. Though this does not seem likely.

yes

b-dawg commented 10 January 2007 at 21:20

I did have some access related modules (I have prob tried most of the mod with this site in the last year). Is that a problem??

yes especially if you did

VM commented 10 January 2007 at 21:25

yes especially if you did not uninstall them properly. just because you delete a modules from the modules folder does not delete its entires in the database.

although this document is stated for anon users I would try this http://drupal.org/node/64114 (note: this was orginally spoken about in my first post in this thread, and you did not state whether or not you tried it)

This should revert your access settings back to drupal default settings, considering you have no contrib access modules listed any longer. Modules should be testing on a sandox (demo installation). This is to avoid problems of this nature.

example: someone with a persistent welcome page would find this topic and be fine following along.

someone who is searching for your second question would sift through the first part of this topic trying stuff that doesnt have anything to do with mismatched buttons, or button text.