phpBB - admin "not authorised to access this area" - Moderator Control Panel
I have just installed my first VM image (TKL phpBB) and I must say: NICE! Too easy really!
Problem though.
I logged in under the default admin account. Then had a bit of a play round but didn't change much. I then went into the Moderator Control Panel (required a second login - same user and pass - worked fine). I changed a few things but nothing important, then logged out.
Thats all good, but then I went to log back. It allowed me to log in as admin, to the user control panel. But when I went to the Moderator Control Panel it says "You are not authorised to access this area." WTF?
I don't have any other users!?! So I'm not sure how I can fix this? I guess at this stage its fairly simple as there is no data (so delete VM, start again) but I would like to know if this is a known issue with phpBB or a TKL phpBB bug or simply something dumb I did without realising!
Thanks
PS I tried removing cookies - no dice!
PPS Tried restarting VM - no difference...
Strange! Try to isolate it...
What would be really useful is if you could start again and try to figure out exactly which configuration tweak was responsible. That will be a big help in getting to the bottom of this.
Yep I'll start again and be a little more careful!
I'll have a look at it when I'm at work a bit later. As using the VM images is so easy and I've got no data to transfer it will be straight forward. I'll take careful note of any setting I change and report back.
I've worked it out!
I've just got back to this and just did a clean install (of the VM image - took all of about 2 minutes - sweet!) I haven't done anything at all and now I don't even need to login a second time to access the 'Moderator Control Panel'. It would seem that I confused myself and it was in fact the 'Administrator Control Panel' that I was referring to initially in my original post (this does require the second login - but only once for the current logged in session).
I logged in and out a number of times and all went well, so I edited settings in the Admin CP and saved. I could log in and out fine, could log in and out of the Admin CP fine but could not access the Moderator CP.
I then reloaded TKL phpBB (for a 3rd time) and was very careful. This time it dawned on me what I had done. I had deleted the only forum (the example forum) and so there was nothing to moderate! I think it may be good to have a more useful error message when this occurs because I couldn't work out what was going on! A simple error message saying that there are no forums to moderate would have meant that I knew what was going on straight away rather than have to work it out myself.
Anyway, I'll post it as a suggestion over on the phpBB forums. In the interum perhaps it may be useful to make a note of that (in the example forum) when you do your next release of TKL phpBB?
Thanks again guys for a great product!
Doh!
Meanwhile I added a tip to the appliance page to hopefully prevent others from falling into the same trap. Great job tracking this down.
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