[support] Drupal permissions

[Daniel Carrera]

Yes, same php versions. It is exactly the same server. The two sites are 
simply different directories on the same site:

http://example.com/foo
http://example.com/bar

Thanks.

KOBA | Hans Rossel wrote:
> 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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