Hi there,

I've recently created a XOOPS site for a client who wishes to do their own maintenence. They log in as usual but when they try to get to the admin area via admin.php it says they don't have permission to do that. If they authenticate a second time it lets them in, no problem.

The site is running on version 2.0.13.1, but I've noticed this problem in earlier versions. Is there a fix for this, or is an upgrade in order?

Thanks.

Check which url is in mainfile.php (including www. or not?) and set it to the correct type the site is actually using.


To elaborate a bit:

I assume you can call your site using http://www.sitename.ext and also sitename.ext.

However XOOPS uses either one of these depending of which one you set it up for. So what happens is actually:

For this example we are assuming your site is configured for www.sitename.ext)
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- user goes to the adress sitename.ext
- logs in (cookie/session applied to sitename.ext) and XOOPS loads the next page (now using www.sitename.ext instead since your site is configured for this url)
- it checks and the user is not logged in to www.sitename.ext and redirects him as anonymous to the mainpage (using www.sitename.ext)
- user logs in again and it works since this time he starts from www.sitename.ext instead of only sitename.ext[/size]

Of course this could be exactly the other way around depending on your mainfile.php settings for XOOPS_URL.

So you should create a redirect for one of the two adresses.

Quote:

I just had this problem come out of nowhere on my site. After some troubleshooting and narrowing down the problem, it turned out to be that the group_user_link table was somehow changed for my admin user. It should be linkid - 2 groupid -1 UID -1.

For some reason it changed to linkid - 739 groupid - 2 and UID - 1. Still do not know what caused it, but fixed it manually in phpmyadmin.

Hi Bender,

That's exactly the problem, the sites from my host default to http://sitename.com. Thanks for the quick solution!

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