Hey Khatti,

I'm just across the water from you in Seattle Glad to see another local user!

First, the .htaccess file is a common file that provides some permissions in linux. It's typically not used within XOOPS for permission purposes though, which is why you don't see other references to it elsewhere. (I have seen a couple of modules that require it, though.)

Are you on a shared server or your own server? If you're on a shared/hosted server, you will not have access to the php.ini file to make any changes, and it's unlikely that your host will make any changes to it even if you request it.

My first suggestion is to recopy (FTP) the entire system module back onto your server. Replace any files when requested. (This is not affecting your database, so no worries.) Once that is complete, update the System module in the Modules directory (the disk icon in the far right).

Once that is done, check to see if you have access to the missing areas again. I suspect that there may have been errors in the installation that prevented these files from all being copied over properly.

You would have to hack the news module to remove it.

Open the index.php file and go to line 134. It currently reads as follows:
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You will need to edit this line to remove the textlink().' : '. so that it reads as:
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You will then have to update this every time the News module is updated.

Thanks for the heads-up. I think I would try and use a global variable instead of a cookie. Wouldn't that work better?

Just hide the block as you would any other block.

1) Go to the Administration Menu
2) Go to System Admin > Blocks
3) Find the Login block and under visible check "No"
4) Make sure you click on the Submit button at the bottom of the table (not page) to update your changes.

See a similar reference on Microsoft's support site athttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;187034

iContent has special permissions that are handled differently. Rather than accessing all content via group permissions, you also need to grant the group permission to the page itself.

1) Go to the Administration Menu
2) Go to iContent > Pages Administration
3) Navigate to the folder where your pages are
4) Scroll down to the bottom of the admin page where the content pages are listed. There are three box areas there.
5) Under Configurable pages click on the pages you want to update (shift or control-click to edit more than one page)
6) Click on the Configure the pages button.
7) From this page you can change the name of the file, enable/disable comments, enable/disable ratings, and update access rights by group. Note that this is PER PAGE, so you will need to update all of your content. Also note about the "hidden" option: This hides the page from the navigation from the /modules/icontent/index.php main page.

When you create a page in iContent, you are presented with this exact same configuration options page, so it should look familiar.

On one of my sites, we have content that is visible only to certain groups. We have created custom menus to display on the content that we want visible, hide all pages from navigation (except we DO create a few shortcuts for basic content), disable comments, and disable ratings.

We also have some content that is available to the organization's board and staff (each has its own group for permissions). For this content we also created a custom menu that only shows if you are a member of one of these two groups.

This SHOULD help solve the problem you are seeing.

I don't believe it's a setting in IIS. How specifically are you referencing the hyperlinks?

If, for example, your href links direcly to the UNC link, then that might be the source of the problem.

Incorrect Syntax:
<a href=\\server\share\folder with a space\folder\>

Correct Syntax:
<a href="file://server/share/folder with a space/folder/">

The link SHOULD also work correctly with UNC folder \ instead of /.
In other words:
<a href="file:\\server\share\folder with a space\folder\">

Let me know if either of these correct the problem. I do think, however, that you will have to update all of your links in some way. IE or any browser will automatically put the %20 in anytime there is a space.

In my work environment, I have a personal rule for anyone I'm working with to ALWAYS replace spaces with an Underscore, a hyphen, or to put the words together, usually capitalizing the first letter of every word.

Depends on your purpose/goal Do you want ANY banner ads?

To disable ALL banner ads (the simple way):
1) Go to the Administration Menu
2) Go to System Admin > Preferences > General Settings
3) About halfway down, you'll see the option "Activate banner ads?" Select No.
4) Click on the Go! button to save your changes.

To disable ALL banner ads (a little more advanced):
This step requires knowledge of HTML and an understanding of XOOPS Themes. Read the info on Theme hacking in the XOOPS Wiki for more information and details.
1) Find the text in your theme.html (or similar html document in your XOOPS theme).
2) Open it in your favorite HTML editor (whether online or offline)
3) Remove the code that references XOOPS Banner, typically found towards the top of the theme.

To disable JUST the XOOPS banner, but leave other banners enabled:
1) Go to the Administration Menu
2) Go to System Admin > Banners
3) For any banner under "Current Active Banners" with a client name of XOOPS, click on Delete.
4) You can also delete XOOPS as a client if you so choose.

I have found the same problem with some of my sites!

The way that I solved the problem is a simple update to the theme.html by putting a column width of 10 or so as a barrier between the center and the left/right columns.

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Have you used %20?

For example
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Spaces do not render well in links and are typically replaced with their URL character equivalent. For others, see the excellent description and tables at this site:

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm