Forum administration - forbidden page help!

New Member Joined: Oct 31, 2007 Posts: 3

i've been looking for any related topics to solve my problem but nothing came out.

so here's my problem hopefully you guys can help me

when i click Forums module on my administration menu i get

You don't have permission to access /xxx/modules/Forums/admin/index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

All modules works fine except this Forums module

any ideas?

THANKS

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Make sure that index.php file in /xxx/modules/Forums/admin/index.php really does exist.

Make sure that the folder and file permissions are correct. The admin folder should be 755 and index.php should be 644.

It sounds like it may be a path error. Use phpMyAdmin an look at the $prefix_bbconfig table and see if all of the settings look correct. These would be the ones to look closely:
server_name & script_path

The server_name should be your url to your home page without the [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] If your url is [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] then server_name should be xxx.yyyyyyy.zzz. If your url is [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] then server_name should be xxx.yyyyyyy.zzz/nuke.

Using the url examples above, your script_path should be /modules/Forums or /nuke/modules/Forums.

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:16 am

hi... I checked everything and things seems like in the right path...and the weird thing when I log in on a different computer everything works with no problem. Any ideas whats seems to be causing all of this?.. I tried IE, firefox(windows/mac) and safari no luck but with a different computer it works Sad

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:10 pm

Make sure that your ip is not being blocked in .htaccess. Try accessing your site from a proxy like [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:45 pm

Thanks raven... .htaccess did the trick, my IP was being blocked. Thanks again for all your help.

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:14 pm