Hello All,

I am new to Drupal and tried version 4.1 and everything worked fine. Then I decided to install the latest version (4.2.0) and I have yet been able to create an account. Every link I click and the main page displays "You are not authorized to access this page.". I thoroughly combed through documentation an searched drupal.org for several hours but I have been unable to find a solution. I am running Windows 2000
- MySQL 3.23.49
- PHP 4.0.6
- phpPgAdmin 2.3.1 UltraSQL Data Dictionary
- phpMyAdmin 2.2.4 MySQL Data Dictionary
- Perl 5.6.1
- Apache 1.3.23 with mod_perl and mod_ssl

Any help on this matter would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Comments

moshe weitzman’s picture

Did you click on the link to create a new account? The "you are not allwoed" message is expected ... this is described in the install docs

topogijo’s picture

Hello,

Thanks for the reply. I clicked on every link and it said the same thing.

Topo

topogijo’s picture

Hello Everyone,

I think my problem has to do with .htaccess and the local server because I installed it on a remote host and it works fine.

Cheers,
Topo

cel4145’s picture

I had a similar problem when doing an upgrade to 4.2. And it was .htaccess related.

Wish I remember what it was I did to get it working. It was something pretty simply :)

irwin’s picture

When I had this problem, it was dealing with the "AllowOverride" directive in httpd.conf not permitting "Options" to be overwritten in .htaccess.

If you have access, check the server logs for details, because that'll often tell you what the problem is.

-- Irwin (Arcana)

AlexVye’s picture

I had this error, and I fixed it this way:

All my drupal stuff is in a sub-directory of root i.e. public_html/drupal. I kept getting this "no access" error. Could not create initial user.

I changed the $base_url in drupal/includes/conf.php from the url of my website to the url of my website/drupal. When I re-ran it, I still got the initial no access error, but I could create the admin user. You have my problem if the drupal logo doesn't show up in the top left hand corner.

topogijo’s picture

Hello Guys,

Thanks for the input. I upgraded my version of php from 4.0 to 4.3.2 and I have seem to over come this issue through now I have a new set of issues.

Cheers,
Akaid

mmtahir’s picture

Anonymous’s picture

In index.php $_GET is used, but this was only added in php version 4.1.0.

I finally found that this was the reason drupal wasn't working for me.

Anonymous’s picture

Hello.

To patch, replace $_GET with $HTTP_GET_VARS in index.php and common.inc and include line "global $HTTP_GET_VARS;" in function arg in common.inc

It seems to be working for me now using php version 4.0.6.

Anthony.