By yosemite on

went to upgrade 6 to 6.1 and i get this error

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

i followed these directions
There is a line inside your settings.php file that says $update_free_access = FALSE;. Change it to $update_free_access = TRUE;.

but still no luck

i have full admin rights

any clues

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yosemite’s picture

yosemite commented

figured it out

u have to be logged in as admin 1

i had 2 admin accnts going and was using the 2nd one i had created after the 1st

when i logged in as the 1st created admin accnt it worked fine

stg11’s picture

stg11 commented

For anyone else having this problem:

It looked like I was logged in but I got access denied. Finally, I cleared the cache, then it logged me out and when I logged in fresh, it worked.

dougthelegoman’s picture

dougthelegoman commented

For anyone else having this problem...
I've been trying to upgrade d6->d7.
I couldn't get update.php to run even though I changed $update_free_access = True
In settings.php, one of the few lines that has not been commented out is username:password@localhost/databasename
I entered the real values and I got in. This is a hack, but for other users who are desperate it works.