Access denied - You are not authorized to access this page.

I am getting this too. Am very confused as I have set up various test drupal sites (4.6.3) before successfully - now for the real deal (4.6.6) and I've fallen at the first hurdle.

The fresh drupal installation is creating the first and subsequent accounts, emailing me their details, rejecting false log-ins, but if the correct log-in details are used all you get is the access denied content page and no change to the log-in block.

I have tried standard troubleshooting - fresh install, fresh database, searched server logs. For what its worth, I started then aborted the process in the https space, and am on a Plesk 7.5.4 virtual host. I didn't have these problems before on the same physical server but with an earlier

Any ideas most appreciated. I didn't anticipate this, and my two days allocated to set it up are now crumbling away... grrr!

Toby

Even though I don't have this problem, maybe you played with the node access rights.

Did anyone disable 'access content' from www.example.com/?q=admin/access ?

Do you get the access denied message even when you are logged in as admin?

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try:

INSERT INTO users (uid, name, mail) VALUES ('0', '', '');
INSERT INTO users_roles (uid, rid) VALUES (0, 1);
INSERT INTO node_access VALUES (0, 0, 'all', 1, 0, 0);

will either return 'duplicate entry' warning (which is OK) **or** fix your problem.

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Access denied - You are not authorized to access this page.
To solve this problem you have to edit database using SQL command:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON databasename.* TO username@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

where

* 'databasename' is the name of your database
* 'username@localhost' is the username of your MySQL account
* 'password' is the password required for that username

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
If problem is still exist , You have to try editing file "settings.php" (Drupal\sites\default\settings.php)
at the line
$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';
change mysql to mysqli
$db_url = 'mysqli://username:password@localhost/databasename';

Before using mysqli, make sure you have the line 'extension=php_mysqli.dll' in file "php.ini"
and you should have files "php_mysqli.dll" and "libmysqli.dll" in php directory.

Stop and start web server before take effect.

Drupal packages tend to have the config.php file permissions set to unwriteable. When you register your admin account you need the config.php to be writeable. Just chmod it to 777 for the install and first account set up and then chmod it back to what it was afterwards.

It's most likely that you are being denied access because your config.php file won't let your main admin info be saved.

Mac OS X 10.4.8
PHP 5.2.0
MySQL 4.1.21
Apache 1.3.33

At first I tried installing Drupal 4.7 and Drupal 5.0 Beta, with the database connection settings as 'sql' and not 'sqli'

Everything was going good, Drupal was connecting to the database with both versions and it created the appropriate admin account. But as soon as I tried to change the password, or clicked the 'submit' button it would immediately go to a "YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO VIEW THIS PAGE." error.
I could click on the menu link (one at a time) and would have to enter in the username and password, but the password was the one that drupal initially assigned, NOT THE ONE THAT I HAD CREATED.

Resolutions:
For Drupal 4.7:
When you have to go into the settings.php file to put in the username, password, and database, change the 'sql' to 'sqli' . Before doing this I started out with a completely new database. It worked like a charm.

For Drupal 5:
When it asked for the type of database choose 'sqli'. Works perfectly now.

Not sure why this fixed it but it works now.

warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/style.css) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home:/tmp) in /home/quasar/includes/theme.inc on line 64.
warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/quasar/includes/common.inc:348) in /home/quasar/includes/common.inc on line 190.

Thats the message I get with the Access Denied thing. I have not even been able to login, so this is still while installing Drupal, and I'm installing on a free hosting site. Anyone know what I can do to fix it?

Folks,
I have a 4.6 running site which has been problem free for around 9 months. Ater following several other posts, confirming users, user_roles and node_access are set up for anony access, I have a user 0, I swapped the session.inc to see if that would help. In fact, that was what allowed anonymous users to access the site again, but somehow, no longer creates the cookie for the users that try to log in. Now everyone is anonymous, including admin. While this makes the more accessible, it prevents me from posting anything, or my user population. I added the additional line to the include file:
register_shutdown_function('session_write_close');

but doesn't help. Any help is appreciated.

I know there are two issues discussed in this thread. The one I refer to is where you login and the system seems to log you out when clicking around on your Drupal site. This is because the type of user you are known to be is dynamically changed in the session table from X to zero. Zero, to Drupal, means anonymous and presto...you seem logged out.

My question:
Drupal 4.7.4
PHP 4.4
MySQL 4.1.21
Apache 1.3.x
Linux 2.6.9

Is this fix with swapping MySQLi into settings.php the fix for THIS SPECIFIC config above with PHP 4.4?

I did the session.inc patch with no effect (after clearing browser cache etc...) BUT this is for PHP5 ...not 4.x anyways

My hosting provider is having one heck of a time getting mySQLi working with PHP so I want to be sure before I raise hell with 'em.

Thanks,

Emilio

I have 4.7.4 Drupal installation that has admin login but doesn't allow to do admin actions. I have to login every time I see (Access denied ) message, get to the next page but my actions are not saved. Please help.

PHP version 5.2.0
MySQL version 4.1.21-standard

found solution on another thread:
http://drupal.org/node/6696#comment-178585

Commented out following in user.module:
session_regenerate_id();

Added line below drupal_page_footer(); in index.php:
$GLOBALS['tempUser'] = $user;

I'm having this problem with Drupal 5.1 on both my development and productions machines, and I've tried everything suggested here with no success.

Devel: W2K, Apache 2.0.59, PHP 5.1.4, MySQL 4.1.7
Prod: CentOS 4.1, Apache 2.0.52, PHP 4.3.9, MySQL 4.1.20

I get the access denied message when I click on a button even though updates or whatever are actually completed in the background. Simply refreshing the page then returns the updated page.

First thing I did, right at the beginning, was to trace back on access_denied(), echoed some __LINE__ calls in what might have been relevant other functions, and the echo in menu.inc, menu_get_active_item() "fixed" the problem. Apparently defeating the header function by sending something before it allowed the registered user to be revalidated and there was no access denied message. I knew it was a dirty "fix" but I just echoed a new line in menu_get_active_item(), and for some reason everything worked fine on my local machine. Not surprisingly, it totally breaks on my remote machine, however.

When I looked into swebmaster's post, I found that session_regenerate_id(); is already in user.module of 5.1. I tried putting the $GLOBALS['tempUser'] = $user; in index.php, anyway. That didn't work except when I put it above the drupal_bootstrap function...but again, that's only because it outputs an error before headers are sent, and just a new line does the same thing--somehow works on my local machine but not remotely.

Anyway, I'm not sure how to resolve this, and any suggestions will be appreciated.

hey folks
am still in the setting process trying to figure out a way to set up drupal .
however i edited the settings.php file and i tried to access my site and it gave me several errors and i have no idea what that means since im not an expert in linux. so is anyone available to help?

please you can see whats happen if you look at this link http://www.zaytouna.org.ps/drupal-5.1/

thank you all.

I am getting an access denied after I log in as admin on my site. I log in and go to my account page which I set as front, but then when I try to click to any other page, it gives me access denied. It did this once a few weeks ago and self corrected, and now its doing it again. Same result in IE and Opera as I received in Firefox. I haven't changed or installed anything in the past week so I'm not sure why it would now be doing this.

I'm running Drupal 5.1 and I'm getting the 'Access denied' even when I logged in as Admin. The nodes show up show up (minus a flash file I placed in the template), but it's preceded by "access denied. The strange thing is that if I activate a panel in the main content area using the panels module the "access denied" banner disappears, and a placed flash file that I have in the template shows up and everything is perfectly normal. Why would panels suddenly remove the "access denied" banner? And what causes ut?

Had the same problem (LAMP5)

But there is so much written about this ... In the meanwhile I tried and tried and ... found a solution for my case, a very simpel one ...

I cleared the cookies for that site. It worked for me and I hope for some of you too ;-)

Greetz
Jan

Hi all,

comment out as shown below the section in settings.php file before you start installation. It fixes all Access Denied problem that I encounter in multiple computer installations

/**
* We try to set the correct cookie domain. If you are experiencing problems
* try commenting out the code below or specifying the cookie domain by hand.
*/
#if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
# $domain = '.'. preg_replace('`^www.`', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
# // Per RFC 2109, cookie domains must contain at least one dot other than the
# // first. For hosts such as 'localhost', we don't set a cookie domain.
# if (count(explode('.', $domain)) > 2) {
# ini_set('session.cookie_domain', $domain);
# }
#}

/**

Apparently, upgrading to php 5.2 causes this problem.

I found that adding the line:

register_shutdown_function('session_write_close');

to the sess_read function in session.inc

function sess_read($key) {
global $user;

register_shutdown_function('session_write_close');

THANK YOU!!!

NOW: This fix worked for me on several Drupal sites on several Drupal versions when our servers were upgraded to php 5.2

SO: If upgrading php causes the problem, I'd try this fix first. It is extremely easy to do and worked perfectly.

This post is enough to solve all problems:

http://drupal.org/node/6696#comment-10113

Regards

I also noticed same issue, but it wasn't related with session was an real-access problem.

If you have been playing with some different access modules (organic_groups, simple access, taxonomy_access...) your node_access table could be a mess.

If you decide to upgrade, all this mess will come up and you won't be able to login from your login block (although you will be able to go in with at /user), and at the same time, anonymous or logged in users will get an annoying "Access denied" page.

The solution in this case don't need a patch. As was said before, you just need to clean up your node table.

If you don't mind to lose some information, you can run this query:

DELETE FROM `node_access`;
#Or run any of those if you know the offender:
#DELETE FROM `node_access` WHERE `realm` = 'simple_access';
#DELETE FROM `node_access` WHERE `realm` = 'og_all';
#DELETE FROM `node_access` WHERE `realm` = 'og_public';
#DELETE FROM `node_access` WHERE `realm` = 'node_privacy_byrole_role';
#DELETE FROM `node_access` WHERE `realm` = 'node_privacy_byrole_user';
#DELETE FROM `node_access` WHERE `realm` = 'og_subscriberog_all';

INSERT INTO `node_access` ( `nid` , `gid` , `realm` , `grant_view` , `grant_update` , `grant_delete` )
VALUES ('0', '0', 'all', '1', '0', '0');

Would be nice if every module include a "full remove" option to drop it's tables and delete it's rows... but as far as I know, drupal don't support this feature yet.

I got this very same problem after my provider changed character set and collation on some tables in the database (they were trying to "fix" corrupted rendering of non-western characters by playing around with the character encoding of the tables, changing latin1 to utf8_swedish).
After running
ALTER TABLE tablename CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

on every affected table, things got back to normal immediately.

Richard Laffers
laffers.net

This worked a treat. Was mysteriously starting to experience real trouble with my Drupal sites and added this line

register_shutdown_function('session_write_close');

to session.inc right at the bottom of the script and now don't get logged out of some sites and am able to log in to others which I was getting Access Denied messages with.

MAgic!

www.dawnofthereplicants.com

I've just spent a day trying every method posted here to solve this strange problem.... been running drupal 5.3 based site on local machine fine, then uploaded to our dedicated redhat linux server.

I could login as admin user (uid 1) fine, but clicking on the 'administer' link or trying to visit www.mysite.com/admin/ brought up a server error page. I could access certian parts of admin such as www.mysite.com/admin/build/ but clicking 'save configuration' on many areas of admin caused error page to be displayed.

After spending the day searching the entire site for clues - thinking it was perhaps a permission, session, .htaccess problem i've discovered that it was a Memory Problem to cure it I increased the amount of memory allocated to PHP using the following line in my .htaccess file

php_value memory_limit 40M

I hope this helps someone out there - its been a very frustrating day!

I've tried almost every solution stated before in this thread:

In my case, the thing I did was change the drupal directory one level up on my public local directory tree, passing from http://localhost/htdocs/drupal to http://localhost/htdocs. Since I did this, I receive the Access denied error over and over again after submitting the first user data, no matter if i change the database and reinstall Drupal or if I do any of the operations listed above.

Please, help me, or I'll have to purge the whole fucking System...

Drupal 5.5
Apache 2.2.6
PHP 5.2.5
Mysql 5.0.45
Operating under Win32

I did put in a pin as mysql website advised it is danger not put a pin.
but now, I can not access any of my local host page. please help!

Quote:

Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.10.1

phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server, and the server rejected the connection. You should check the host, username and password in config.inc.php and make sure that they correspond to the information given by the administrator of the MySQL server.
Error

MySQL said: Documentation
#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

Unquote.

Above message come up when I tried to access phpmyadmin. Please help, how should I solve this! thanks..

Hi, Im having the same problem "Access Denied", its nothing to do with database access (because drupal works) and its not a problem when logged in as admin.

I get "Access Denied" when I am not logged in and I know why although not the solutions. I have noticed that only recently the "NODE_ACCESS" table in the database is no longer being updated. I do not have any node access modules installed however I did have the workflow installed and now removed.

The following is a list of things I have and have done...see if anyone can match mine against theirs...

Original install drupal 5.2 moved from local server to remote
created another user group including one called "superuser" (maybe a problem???)
removed workflow although not the database tables
CCK modules installed,Multilanguage i18n,HTMLarea,Menu trim,Views

Tried:
Upgrading to 5.7
removing the workflow tables

Success with adding this in database
INSERT INTO node access (0, 0, all, 1, 0, 0)

THIS IS NOT A PERMENANT SOLUTION, why do I have to put access *??? What caused the add content form to stop updating the node access table???

Hope that helps someone
Will Eaton

I have a different kind of problem. I have been running a Drupal 6 site for months with no problems. Then, all of a sudden, select users are reporting "access denied" error while others and myself, the admin have no trouble. As far as I know, no one changed any settings. They have tried deleting stuff from their browser, etc., Does anyone know what this might be about?

Thanks.

pz

Same problem after having moved my site. Version 6.2. Nothing of the above worked for me. Is there really no fix for this?

I had same problem.

my solution: drupal 6.0x - man i only put somthing in the mission statement and deleted it. next thing i know "Access Denied"

Anyway: Use the Front page module ! http://drupal.org/project/front
Go to > Administer > Advanced front page settings > set front page to: front_page
Go to > Administer > Site Information > Set Default font page to: front_page
Go to > Administer > User Management > Permissions > Scroll down and tick the box for [front_page module] for anonnymous user..

that should sort it.. well it sorted mine. but im a newbie what do i know :D

- hope it helped

www.casinogamblingindex.com - First Drupal Site

I'm new to CMS-type systems & recently installed Drupal v6.2 on my computer to try it out using apache2triad, per a suggestion in the Drupal Documentation section.

I get the "Access denied, you are not authorized to access this page" message in the css_injector module when I click on the "create a rule" link.

I have no trouble accessing any of the other modules, including other contributed modules, so I don't understand why this one acts up. I know zip about how to change write permissions, chmods or node accesses, so I haven't done anything except basic install.

One thing I noticed is that the v6.2 readme documentation says the drupal-6.2/modules folder is only for core modules and to put all contributed modules (such as css_injector) into the sites/all/modules folder. But when I put contributed modules into the sites/all/modules folder, they do not show up on my Administer >> site building >> modules page. When I put contributed modules into the drupal-6.2/modules folder, they show up on the site building/modules page so that I can check them to enable them. ... Does the module location affect access permission?

Does anyone know why this is module-specific "access denied" is happening & what to do about it?

Hey...think this would work(Iam running site o drupal 5.7,other versions need to be tested)

1.Go to post settings under content management and you will rebuild using the option "Rebuild permissions" under "node access status" and the option is well explained there as given under...

"If the site is experiencing problems with permissions to content, you may have to rebuild the permissions cache. Possible causes for permission problems are disabling modules or configuration changes to permissions. Rebuilding will remove all privileges to posts, and replace them with permissions based on the current modules and settings......"

But from other posts here i found some users cant find the rebuild permissions option in the post settings page.I dont know how,but it is true.Even me after clicking on Rebuild permissions(which was luckily there) the access denied error was removed.But,when i returned to post settings page the 'Rebuild permissions' option could not be found where it was!

2.Other way to get to the "Rebuild permissions" page is to type in the url
< http://www.yoursite.com/admin/content/node-settings/rebuild > and rebuild permissions.

Hope this work out fine.Confirm this solution if it works out for you.

"Give me a place to stand and I shall move the Earth" -Archimedes

my access denied is working just fine -
that's the problem

i don't want anonymous visitors to enter, but i also don't want them to be yelled at!
i'd just like the text ACCESS DENIED to be invisible.

Any way to make it disappear while still working?
btw, i know nothing about coding, so i need some hand holding...

thanks!

I replied to this post already here) but its far above.....

The situation on one of my sites (Drupal 5.2) is also kind of strange in that only content pages that are labeled "new" can be accessed.

With the help of the tracker page, a given authenticated user can see which are the newest pages, and access them fine. But older pages all get access denied!

The rebuild perms didn't work to solve this problem.

James Wilson
Elementalidad

I'm working locally for now, but I've been getting access denied too.
I have two users that I created: administrator (with all permissions) and another (with limited access content, etc. permissions). I'm using the ATCK theme for the site and garland for the admin area. Once I got the bulk of the site functioning, I took a break to style the ATCK theme with CSS and now I'm trying to log back into admin to make internal changes. I didn't make the admin navigation display on the ATCK theme because when I'm logged in, it uses garland, but now in order to login I have to manually go to localhost/admin.
However, the second I hit login, it shoots me back to localhost/?destination=admin which is just the site with all the ATCK theming I've done. If I try to access localhost/admin/settings or any other location manually, I get the garland theme, but access denied.

It's like it doesnt actually login.
Anyone know how I can get back into admin?

thank you for any help

I have spent several hours reading though most of all the comments here. I don't mean to be rude, but this is probably the worst tracking of a problem I have seen. The same solutions pops up +10 times. Can't you read? Clearing the cache and cookies didn't solve this issue. If it did this thread wound not be alive over 3½ years since the fist post!!

I can honestly say that I have tried ALL suggested solutions I found here. I still have the same problem. Why? First of all, is there a precise description of the problem? Well, strangely I didn't find any. Yes, I did find some comments describing the problem. But it seems every one is talking about a whole bunch of different problems. No one has found a good solution, because no one described the problem.

So let me describe the problem I experienced:
-I encountered this problem when I copied a live drupal site to my local machine for testing.
-All files and folders are a exact copy of the live site.
-I exported the database, and imported it on my local server.
-I made the necessary changes to let drupal make connection to the database on the "new" server.
-All pages work in the same way as on the drupal site. So the connection to the database works.
-When I log in I don't get to the userpage as usual. Instead I get the "Access Denied" page.
-The same happens for all users.
-If I type the wrong password I get a "wrong usernamn or password" message.

Previous system (live site):
Linux, PHP 4, Mysql 4.1.2

Current system (local test):
Windows XP, XAMPP 1.6.6, PHP 5, Mysql 5.0.51

Drupal 5.10
+ CCK
+ Views
+ Taxonomy Menu
+ Admintration Menu
+ more modules

I will say it again. I have tried every applicable solution for this problem, without success.

So, PLEASE, tell me exactly how the access works in drupal, and what went wrong, and how it's fixed.

I was experiencing the dreaded 'Access Denied' error only on ONE particular page (/blog). In order to fix this I tried a number of different approaches based on information I saw on the web. I changed permissions, cleared cache, changed my httpd.conf file, changed my .htaccess file and no luck. What was it?? I actually had a node already created that had a 'blog' url_alias. I had to delete the old node url_alias and then BINGO, all was fine.

To find the record run a query like: SELECT * FROM url_alias where dst like '%yourpage%'
Then run a delete on that row or change the dst value.

Hopefully this will save some of you some time, it took me a while to figure out.

Craig

I ran into this problem after I added a switch in my settings.php file for the database so that I could easily switch between my local and live databases without having to edit settings.php over and over again.

//PRODUCTION
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'mysite.org'){
	$db_url = 'mysql://user:pass@mysql.mysite.org/my_db';
}

//JULIA-LOCAL TESTING
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'localhost'){
	$db_url = 'mysql://root:root@localhost/mydb';
}

I tried to first solve the problem by rebuilding node permissions and clearing my cache. What solved the problem was uncommenting the $base_url and adding the following.

//PRODUCTION
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'mysite.org'){
	$base_url = 'http://mysite.org';  // NO trailing slash!
}

//JULIA-LOCAL TESTING
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'localhost'){
	$base_url = 'http://localhost:8888/work/mysite/www/trunk';  // NO trailing slash!
} 

Please let me know if you have any questions. I'm using PHP 5.2.6, MySQL 5.0.67 and Drupal 6.5.

I am the same issue on a iMac. I am running Drupal 6.6 on Leopard using MMAP running PHP 5.2.6 w/ MySQL client version 5.0.41. I tried to edit the settings.php file as it was suggested above but for whatever reason, I couldn't get the permissions to stick so the changes would be permanent. When I am logged in as an admin, I can see, change and view all the web pages that I've created or changed, however, the moment I log out, I start getting that dammed "Access Denied, You are not authorized to access this page" crap. I seem to be having the reverse problem of what others are dealing with. Any how, if anyone has any ideas, please let me know as I am stumped at this point, thxs.

dsanif

PS,

I was able to finally edit the settings.php file, but it didn't work for me in resolving my problem.

I had access denied for admin and taxonomy etrms and It was Views module
http://drupal.org/node/319540#comment-1266308

I have tried most of the solutions listed here except Geotechy .

Running 'Harry Slaughter's workaround, I get following but problem persists.
mysql> INSERT INTO node_access VALUES (0, 0, 'all', 1, 0, 0);
ERROR 1062 (23000): Duplicate entry '0-0-all' for key 'PRIMARY'
mysql> INSERT INTO users (uid, name, mail) VALUES ('0', '', '');
ERROR 1062 (23000): Duplicate entry '' for key 'name'
mysql> INSERT INTO users_roles (uid, rid) VALUES (0, 1);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

FreeBSD
MySQL
Apache
Php 5.2.6
Drupal 6.13 (brand new installation...Zend Framework disabled)

Anybody has a brand new solution? Thanks.

setting '$cookie_domain = 'example.com';' in settings.php to the wrong domain also generates this access denied error. For example if you wrote '$cookie_domain = 'exmaple.com';', on the domain example.com you'll get the access denied on all pages.

I've been working on a big drupal site which I've had installed on my own server as a subdomain (so this might be client.example.com). I have just sent the site live and therefore moved the site files (and all assets) to a new folder on the same server (so it now also appears on www.client.com). No changes to the database were needed as the development site and live site are hosted on the same server.

The site looks fine, however when I go to log into the admin section on the www.client.com domain with any of the usernames and passwords I had set up I am getting the "Access denied You are not authorized to access this page." message. I can still login fine at client.example.com.

Thanks for your help!

this the message i get when i try to share or access a pc on the network.i tried adding from control panel .administrative tools..local security policy..still the same..

"you are not authorized to access this page", this is normally a permissions message. It happened to me once when I added new modules. I was the 'administrator' but for the extra functionality added by the new modules I had not yet given my self permission to manage them. For you though I think it is something different.

When you installed did you get all of the way through the installation process with the database connection made and to the home page? I have doubts.

Since you have not created any sites yet I would start over and make sure you get all of the way through the installation process without any error messages. If you get error messages and get stumped by them please post them here.

Hello everyone ;)
you have just to check the "session.cookie_domain = xxxxxx" in your php.ini
it has to be :
session.cookie_domain =

make sure there is nothing after "="
I hope this help ;)

have a nice life ;)

Could not find the admin username and password?
when i try to enter i am getting the msg like this
"Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page."
i m using karmic,drupal 7.
pls help me.

If you're running OG, you must go to Og settings and add your new content type to the list or you will get an Unauthorized Access message, even as Admin.

I had the problem when logging as admin or any other user and tryed all these comments but no success.

mysqlcheck didnt show any problem with database so I thought its ok but when I tryed to dump db I saw that session table is corrupted. So I did:

mysql>repair table sessions;

And this solved the problem with logging in. Hope this will help somebody.

I got a call from my client after i upgraded them from 6.16 to 6.17 to let me know they couldn't log in. Soon i found out I couldn't either. So,...

Commenting out the cookie part of the settings.php file worked.

#$cookie_domain = $base_url;

plz can you give me solution ,my admin,users pages shows " Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page.", how to solve this one plz give me solution

simply don't hide the login in the blocks, anyway it will automatically be hidden once you logged in, that solved my access denied issue..

THANKS swifty (above http://drupal.org/node/20397#comment-177472).

After going round in circles trying to sort out why a site I had set up for someone several years ago now refused to be logged into.

Hi friends,

I was also getting this error after creating content,
for solving it i googled for two days, as their was too many post of different solution for the same problem, but not a single one of them was working,
so i tryed to solve it by myself.

the solution is very simple, you just have to login by administrator and in modules check that their are no disabled items over their, you can make them enabled by clicking on them, specifically on node,locale,content Tranclation.

then go to node-> permission, check on

Access the content overview page
Access the content overview page
View published content
View published content
View published content
View own unpublished content
View own unpublished content
View own unpublished content
View content revisions
View content revisions
View content revisions
Revert content revisions Anonymous and then save it, and log out.

then the message will not be their.

be happy, and make others happy, by giving solutions.

hi guys
im running dp6 and using audio module
everything on site works, except when i try to use the audio import module, this used to work before but suddenly recently it doesnt, when i try to import audio files i get You are not authorized to access this page.

iv checked all write permissions and everything seems fine, i jus dont get it

any ideas?

Had a similar problem after moving from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6; the site looked fine to authenticated users, but anonymous users got the "not authorized to view this page error" on every page.

The fix was, using the "Rebuild Permissions" button that's hidden on the "Content" -> "Post settings" page in Drupal 6. (eg. admin/content/node-settings)

Node access status
If the site is experiencing problems with permissions to content, you may have to rebuild the permissions cache. Possible causes for permission problems are disabling modules or configuration changes to permissions. Rebuilding will remove all privileges to posts, and replace them with permissions based on the current modules and settings.
Rebuilding may take some time if there is a lot of content or complex permission settings. After rebuilding has completed posts will automatically use the new permissions.

There's a button directly below that text that solved all of our problems. : ) Cheers!

Here is a detailed account of my issues, and their resolutions, hopefully these can help someone. My issue is with Drupal 7 and Access Denied errors relating to changing theme settings:

http://drupal.org/node/1114770#comment-4840588

If someone searches on this, and hits this page as I have, this might be helpful.

same problems^^^^learning

After going through all the system configs that this thread (and other blogs) have talked about - I compared my local MySQL with the server / colleagues whose installs were working fine.

Turns out, my version (MySQL 5.5) was newer than the others (MySQL 5.1).

I ripped it out (i am on Mac OS X Snow Leopard - no MAMP or XAMP following these directions -> http://www.brianbruijn.com/?q=node/24 ) and installed a legacy version (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql) and everything snapped into place.

Granted, along the way, i changed ALOT of config options ... so I am sure that they also helped the situation.

Hope this helps anyone on Snow Leopard !

how to view site configured in drupal in local host? not admin but actually developed site. I wanted to upload it on my production server.

Живой сайт! Частенько ныряю сюда. Отличные материалы, интересные.

This is with Drupal 7.

I had a similar problem. My installation works fine on localhost, but when I switched to example.com, I couldn't login anymore.

I use Firefox and Cookie Monster. The simple and embarrassing solution was to allow Cookies for example.com in Firefox/Cookie Monster.

personally the issue was solved after allowing anonymous user permission to "View published content"

If you have just found that your IP is banned, get a VPN account https://www.iwasel.com/en/ I was blocked, got the account.. connected with no degradation in speed... and was in business again! It's a great solution.

I had this problem and I tried the fix running 5.7. It wasn't throwing the correct error. I found that the sessions table was corrupt. If you look in the logs you will find

Error - Can't open file: 'sessions.MYI'

Check and see if you can select from the sessions table. If not, then run

sql>repair table session;

FIXED

IN Drupal-7.x-dev version admin is login then admin is log out suddenly admin is access denied then next login time is not avalibile username and password then direct redirect main page without content of menu bar of home ,dashboard,content,structure,appearance,people,module,configuration,report,help plz give solution sir

So as i wrote i had same issue, but all what i did to fix it was deletion first row in user table, this row with id 0, and It works ;)