[support] Users can't access content

[Victor Kane]

Remember to back up your database first!

Also, you might consider working with a development/test setup and
then deploying tyhe last stable version from there to production site
in future.

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
> Hi Victor,
>
> Thanks, I'll definitely try that. I'll wait until after business hours,
> just in case something goes wrong. In any case, what you describe
> ("regular, normal, fresh Drupal install") sounds like exactly what I want.
>
> Thanks. I'll write back in a couple of hours and report on whether these
> ideas worked or not.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
> Victor Kane wrote:
>> Here is a silver bullet for this problem (backup your database first).
>>
>> Assuming you want to return to a state in which no access modules are
>> at work, in which everything is like a regular, normal, fresh Drupal
>> install, you:
>>
>> 1. Delete all rows from the node_access table.
>> 2. Perform this command:
>>
>>  db_query("INSERT INTO {node_access} VALUES (0, 0, 'all', 1, 0, 0)");
>>
>> That should leave your table looking like this:
>>
>> nid   gid     realm   grant_view      grant_update    grant_delete
>> 0     0       all     1       0       0
>>
>> Then things should be right as rain.
>>
>> Victor Kane
>> http://awebfactory.com.ar
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
>>> Ok, I'll do that in 2 hours. Right now a customer is demo-ing the
>>> website to his boss and the last thing I want is to break something
>>> mid-way through the demo (I gave the customer admin rights just for
>>> today so he could do the demo).
>>>
>>> Daniel.
>>>
>>> William Smith wrote:
>>>> Clearing the cache is worth a shot, and yes it is safe to delete
>>>> everything from the cache* tables
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com
>>>> <mailto:daniel.carrera at zmsl.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Hmm... it doesn't seem to help.
>>>>
>>>>     Maybe I have the wrong permissions set in the access control page
>>>>     (admin/user/access) but I don't think I do. Under "node module" I have
>>>>     the "access content" permission set for anonymous users. That's all I
>>>>     need, right? All the other permissions in this section are "administer"
>>>>     this, "create" that, and "edit" the other.
>>>>
>>>>     Is there some other permission I should check?
>>>>
>>>>     Is it possible that the Drupal cache is acting up? I see five cache*
>>>>     tables in the database (cache, cache_filter, cache_menu, cache_page,
>>>>     cache_views). Is it safe to delete everything from these tables? Might
>>>>     that help?
>>>>
>>>>     Daniel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Bill Fitzgerald wrote:
>>>>      > Try rebuilding your permissions table at admin/content/node-settings
>>>>      >
>>>>      > Daniel Carrera wrote:
>>>>      >> Shit. It's worse than I thought. It looks like only users that
>>>>     have a
>>>>      >> role with the "administer nodes" permission can view these pages. In
>>>>      >> other words, only site administrators can view these pages. This is
>>>>      >> horrible.
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >> Help! :(
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >> Daniel Carrera wrote:
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>> Hello,
>>>>      >>>
>>>>      >>> I was using the "taxonomy access" module but I decided that it
>>>>     doesn't
>>>>      >>> do what I want, so got rid of it. That is to say, I didn't
>>>>     delete the
>>>>      >>> categories, but I set them to not be used for "Pages".
>>>>      >>>
>>>>      >>> Here is my problem: Some pages are now inaccessible to
>>>>     anonymous users.
>>>>      >>> When you go to the page you get an access denied error. I'm getting
>>>>      >>> stressed about this because my users are mad and they want to
>>>>     show their
>>>>      >>> pages to other people.
>>>>      >>>
>>>>      >>> I have gone to the regular permissions page (admin/user/access) and
>>>>      >>> under "node module" the permission "access content" is
>>>>     activated for
>>>>      >>> anonymous users.
>>>>      >>>
>>>>      >>> I don't know what to do and I was hoping someone here had an
>>>>     idea. I'm
>>>>      >>> using Drupal 5 btw.
>>>>      >>>
>>>>      >>> I would welcome any help.
>>>>      >>>
>>>>      >>> Daniel.
>>>>      >>>
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >
>>>>      >
>>>>
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