I had problems with permissions also are you having trouble with all the modules or just news? have you enabled the folders to the proper permissions? I missed out on some of the litrature and it says to make sure that three folders are enabled for write access. when installing. and if your upgrading then verify that you have enabled the write permissions for the modules you updated. my guess.
But I am only one step ahead of you so maybe some of the old timers can pass along some better wisdom. of course there gonna want the version/type of your webserver and ver of PHP and a little more about the how your permissions for you website are setup..

good hunting,
easymoney

our host just informed me that we have do not have shell or telnet access. to change the permissions. Is there another way of chaning the permissions on these folders? can i set the permissions up and then copy them to the webserver?

not too familiar with shell commmand in linux.. thanks for the insight..

I have installed XOOPS to a host site. ftp'd zipped file up to site and then decompressed. moved all files to the root directory that is served up. all files copied sucessfully. then started the install and walked through just fine all green lites no error messages. have dba access to db mySQL 4.0.21 (vers). was able to access with admin rights, installed modules and then created a catagory and forum no problems. logged off and then logged back on useing admin, drilled down to open op forum and when clicking on the forum module i get http error 403 forbidden. I can browse to any area or sub area of the site but when I try to access any module i get http 403. created a new user same issue. flattened folder and did a complete reinstall and same issue unable to access modules everything else worked.

php 4.3.10
mySQL 4.0.21
apache server?? not sure of vers
xoops 2.0.9.2

all paths virtual and physical are valid and working.
I can see new banners and new blocks when i create but unable to access modules.

is this a common issue? I ran php debug but no error messages.

thanks for any help in advance.

easy

this is a test no need to reply I am not able to post to other forums just using a different computer and connection.. thanks.