Help!! Default Drupal setup page shows instead of content unless logged in!!!

By Zethris1 on 2 Dec 2005 at 12:53 UTC

If you go to http://www.thinkingpost.net you can see that drupal is showing the default page that you get whe you first install drupal. However, when you are logged in, the proper content shows up. I have everything set to that anonymous viewers can read the articles too. But to submit them you have to creat an account.

Why would it be doing this?

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Did you install any access

venkat-rk commented 2 December 2005 at 13:03

Did you install any access control modules recently? Notably, node_privacy_by_role or even taxonomy_access or simple_access?

Or even Organic groups?

I don't have a ready answer, but I faced a similar problem when I installed node_privacy on one of my sites.

oh, I removed organic groups

Zethris1 commented 2 December 2005 at 13:15

First I disabled organic groups, and then I removed it out of the directory, and then later when trying to troubleshoot, I removed og from the database too. I didn't use it though, thats why I removed it. It was active for a time, but I never got to using it.

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Sorted!

Zethris1 commented 2 December 2005 at 13:21

Thanks mate! It was organic groups. There is a seperate access control on button and it was still enabled when I re-installed it. I disabled it and then disabled it from the modules after this time, and that put everything back.

Jeeze, i thought I messed everything up there for a bit.

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Glad to know it helped.

venkat-rk commented 2 December 2005 at 13:47

Glad to know it helped.

Organic Groups makes huges changes to the database so you need to be careful playing with it on a live site. To be fair, the readme.txt or install.txt is very clear about needing to be extra careful while using OG.

By the way, I have always found it better to have a separate test site to try out all the modules before using them on a live site. Extra work, yes, but often worth the trouble.

Edit Oh, I notice that Heine already hinted about test sites;-)

What did you change?

Heine commented 2 December 2005 at 13:08

What did you change? I've checked your site earlier today and it was ok (saw the spellfixes).

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I just installed modules and updated the legal rules for signups

Zethris1 commented 2 December 2005 at 13:14

I installed the moviereview module, the service links module, got captcha to work and installed a recipe module.

durring that time, everything looked fine. But now when I log out, or anything, I get that screen. I can create a new account and all the news then comes back when I log in.

I checked access controls, anonymous has access. I tried removing it, and then I get "access is denied" like I am supposed to, re-enabled it, and then comes back the drupal start page.

I removed the database entries for those mods I put in, and removed the mods I added, but still get the same result.

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Organic groups...

Heine commented 2 December 2005 at 13:46

I see the problem is solved. Great!

Now some feedback; You forgot to mention that you installed & deleted organic groups in the post above. Good that ramdack5000 brought it up or no-one would have thought about that with the modulelist you posted. For your own sake; please be complete.

You may also benefit from reading the handbook on best practices, specifically the entry about test sites.

To quote sepeck: Test site...always start with a test site ;-)