By nickfitz on

I logged on to my site today, and found that anonymous users are no longer authorized to view random pages - and that they can only see nodes that from six months or older.

Please help me with any suggestions you may have.

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cayenne commented

I had the same experience. Tracked it down.

In my case, it was a newly-installed module, the Organic Groups module. Since it controls access, the settings need to be right, or everything you repost or revise will be group-only.

The broader question is to think about what you may have installed lately.

Of course, the lesson I learned is to exit (or to even go to a different computer) and visit your site as an anonymous user to see if it still works.

Good luck and tell us whatcha learn.

:)

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nancydru
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Just a wild guess because you didn't provide much information, but I'd say you installed an access control module recently, but after you created those older pages.

Assuming this is the case, first you need to make sure your access control is set up correctly to do what you want. Then go back and edit all those nodes that were created before the access control module.

There are two ways that I know of to identify those older nodes. One is with the Devel Node Access module, and the other is with the Site Documentation module. The Devel Node Access module requires that the Views module also be available; Site Doc does not.

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nickfitz commented

Thank you for the suggestions. It must have something to do with a module - I will go through one by one with each module and see if I can determine which is the culprit.

One thing thats wierd though is that when I am logged in - I see everything the way it should be. ( I am user/1 by the way)

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nancydru
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User/1 should be able to see and do everything, although it's not always the case.

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nickfitz commented

Yeah - So I deleted several of the modules - still dont really see where the problem is. The site is www.x3o-gaming.com; if you want to take a look and see what im talking about.

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nickfitz commented

PROBLEM RESOLVED!!

A very helpful user in #drupal-support on irc.freenode.com was able to help me with this issue.

Somehow my DB node_access table got a whole bunch of restrictions. We wiped it clean and put in a fresh one. The site worked perfectly.

Thanks alpritt :)

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The Site Doc module would have shown that.

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