[support] Drupal permissions

[KOBA | Hans Rossel]

Im not sure if this has been proposed allready before, but are the php
versions the same between your installations? I had some issues before
with access on 4.7 installations that went from php4 to php5, there is
a sessions issue which makes that you are logged out at the first
click after signing in. There is an easy fix available on drupal.org,
I can look it up for you if thats your problem.

Good luck,

Hans

On 8/19/08, Cog Rusty <cog.rusty at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com>
> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Sorry for the delay in responding.
>>
>> To re-cap the problem: I made a copy of my Drupal site as a test site,
>> and all the permissions are wrong, I can't access any node. I can,
>> however, login as admin and access admin pages. I can also create new
>> nodes and those work fine.
>>
>> Victor, Laura and Bill all offered suggestions and I do apologize for
>> not following up quickly. I followed the suggestions without much luck:
>>
>> 1) Victor: I can't do a command-line dump because I don't have
>> command-line access. I am stuck with phpMyAdmin. I can't upload an
>> entire copy of the database so I must do the copy in steps. :-(
>>
>> 2) Laura: I have cleared the cache, and I also cleared the sessions
>> table for good measure. No change. I created a sub-domain and pointed it
>> to the new Drupal site. No change. So I don't think that this is a
>> cookie-related issue.
>>
>> 3) Bill: Drupal 4.7 doesn't have "administer > site building" so I can't
>> uninstall modules. :-( All I can do is deactivate them. I have
>> deactivated everything in sight.
>>
>> 4) Bill: Drupal 4.7 doesn't have "administer - content management". I
>> see no way to rebuild permissions.
>
>
> Unfortunately Drupal 4.7 has been unsupported for a long time and most
> have started to forget how it used to work. Somehow you will need to
> follow Bill's advice manually or with whatever means were available at
> the time.
>
> The first thing I would try: Upgrade to Drupal 5.10. After replacing
> all your modules with their 5.x versions, making sure that your theme
> can handle Drupal5, and running update.php, try to follow Bill's
> advice. Try it on a test site first.
>
> If this is not possible, and you need to stay with D 4.7, then (on a test
> site):
>
> - Check if you have any access control modules such as OG or taxonomy
> access. If you used to have them but you have disabled them, then
> enable them again, disable their access control from their settings
> page, and only then disable themagain.
>
> - If this fails, check the node_access table in the database. With all
> access control modules disabled, it should contain only one row with
> values 0, 0, 'all', 1, 0, 0. If it contains more rows with different
> realms, delete them all and add only this one:
>
> INSERT INTO node_access VALUES (0, 0, 'all', 1, 0, 0);
>
>
>> Question: Is it possible to (1) create an entirely new Drupal site and
>> then (2) copy the users and the nodes? Is such a thing possible? I don't
>> care about the modules except for the "blog" and "page" modules. I'm
>> happy to install new ones later.
>
>
> If it comes to that, these modules may help import users and nodes
> from comma delimited text files:
>
> http://drupal.org/project/user_import
> http://drupal.org/project/node_import
>
>
>> Thank you all for the help you have provided. I hope that we can find a
>> solution. I wonder if my installation is messed up for some reason and
>> perhaps the best option is to start a new. The problem is that I have to
>> copy the pages and blogs. They belong to my users. The users can
>> tolerate a change in UI and changing some features for others, but not
>> the loss of all their data.
>>
>> Daniel.
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