O NOO Forums Admin is BLANK!

twelves · Regular Joined: Aug 22, 2003 Posts: 84

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I looked already for 6 hours and did many patches and Unpached many times.

I have no idea whats going on!

Nuke 6.9 is running flawless!

Phpbb admin is returning blank page!

Any advice?
Is there a raven version of phpbb I can just dump in there?

I want this fixed because I know things can get out of hand!
I also have Thousands of posts in my page so I am getting worried that its about to take a nap on me.

Thanks in advance!

Raven · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:31 pm

PM me your
site adminid/password
ftp url, id, password
phpMyAdmin url, id, password

Raven · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 4:47 pm

As it turns out, and this isn't the first time I've encountered this, the fix is to comment out this line in modules/Forums/config.php

Code:

@include("../../mainfile.php");

so it looks like this

Code:

<?php

//@include("../../mainfile.php");
define('PHPBB_INSTALLED', true);

?>

Somewhere, somehow, the mainfile.php is getting called twice, possibly by a mod or an addon to Forums. PHP, of course resents that, and dies.

twelves · Regular Joined: Aug 22, 2003 Posts: 84

All I know is that it was making thing a wreck of my page.
Thanks man. I owe you some beers.

Ill do my best to make good on something.

Your just the best man.

Laughing

dotcomUNDERGROUND · New Member Joined: Oct 26, 2002 Posts: 3

i had the same problem

after applying the fix its showing up now

but says i dont have the admin right.

but my nick is u=2, gives all the admin power over forum, shows admin in the stuff page and i am loged in as both admin and user.

tried to lig-off login but same thing

tried with another user with admin access too.

same result.

dotcomUNDERGROUND · New Member Joined: Oct 26, 2002 Posts: 3

pls helpppppppppp

Raven · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 4:35 pm

Log out of both admin and user. Delete all cookies and your cache. Make sure your userlevel is 2. That should work.

kingduct · New Member Joined: Feb 11, 2004 Posts: 4

Well, I've got the same problem. None of the solutions offered here and on NukeCops has solved it. Well, here goes:

I, working on my home linux computer created a phpnuke page. Everything worked well. I uploaded it to the server. Everything worked well. One day, I went to administer the forums, and the administration page was blank. I have since tried everything...to no avail. Various people have noted that if you don't have your page in the root directory, that can cause problems. This page is not in the root directory.

So, I went back to my home computer and tried moving the phpnuke installation there to a subdirectory to see what would happen. Everything there worked well, so I could not duplicate the problem.

Any more ideas? I get a blank page that only includes the header that the entire site (the non-nuke site) automatically puts in when a non-existing URL is requested. This indicates to me that somewhere an incorrect path is being requested, but darned if I can figure out where.

Thanks in advance,
Gabriel

Raven · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 12:46 pm

Have you looked at your server logs, both access and error, to see what the http response is? Is it 200 or 404 or what? Are there any error on the error log?

kingduct · New Member Joined: Feb 11, 2004 Posts: 4

Okay, it's been a long time since you offered your help. What with solving other problems and getting other people on this volunteer team off their arses, I just haven't gotten around to this. Well, here goes my error message, it turns out the screen isn't so blank after all:

<<
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /admin/index.php on this server.

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

My impression is that perhaps it is trying to access

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Do you think that's possible? Or would it be some sort of permissions problem. Thanks again, sorry not to respond for so long.

-Gabriel

Raven · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:12 am

kingduct wrote:

Okay, it's been a long time since you offered your help.... -Gabriel

??? - What does that mean?

Please post your url so I can see exactly the problem.

kingduct · New Member Joined: Feb 11, 2004 Posts: 4

Oh, didn't mean to offend. I meant that you had asked for more information long long ago, and I hadn't provided it, so nothing had yet been done. It will be a bit before I can give you the URL, since I would need to get permission from the rest of the group to let you in and see the problem. Thus, I was hoping that this was a common problem. Guess each case is different.

In any case, the info about the error logs I will work on getting from another member of the team -- I myself am kind of annoyed that they entrust me to setup their entire nuke site, yet don't give me the authority to see things on the server that aren't in the public www path. That's the main reason I haven't been so fast on giving you info.

Thanks again,
Gabriel

Raven · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:35 am

Well, it is not a common problem, per se, but it is a result of permissions one way or another. You are attempting to access a file that is in a protected area or does not exist and the directory structure is in a protected area.

twelves · Regular Joined: Aug 22, 2003 Posts: 84

If Raven offers to help, let him in your server!

I did and he fixed in 5 min.

Mr. Green

kingduct · New Member Joined: Feb 11, 2004 Posts: 4

Well, the problem is solved. Apparently one of the other dudes (who does nothing except complain) had gone and changed an .htaccess file, screwing everything up. Jesus. Thanks for your help offered.
Peace,
Gabriel