Forum admin page not found

New Member Joined: Nov 27, 2005 Posts: 22

Hi, I'm running a new install of RN v2.10.01 and have only added gallery2.

Everything is working an absolute treat except I can't access the admin pages for the forums. It gives a HTTP 500 Internal server error and page not found.

Any ideas ??

Thanks

registered · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:09 am

Schmitt, I just noticed this the other day too, but only with Fire Fox. It works fine for me with IE. I am thinking, though, that it might be related to one of my .htaccess rules because I am not seeing it on the various RN test sites that I have.

In FF, though, it just says that it is trying to redirect but in an endless loop.

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:45 pm

I'm getting a blank page in firefox and page not found in IE6. I agree that its probably something to do with the .htaccess. I'm pretty sure it worked fine prior to installing gallery2 integration pack. If you find the answer let me know Smile

Schmitt

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:28 pm

Gallery can drive you crazy with permissions problems but I have never seen it do anything with your "root" htaccess file. Usually the Gallery problems that I've seen only affect Gallery. Just a small 2 cents from this quarter. You could try commenting out anything that's in your htaccess. You don't say if you could access forums admin before you added Gallery. My guess is not.

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:32 pm

I'm pretty sure I could access forum admin pages prior to installing gallery2 integration pack but I could be mistaken.
I'll have a go at commenting out the .htaccess stuff and see what happens.
Interestingly I am seeing nothing in my error logs to show a problem.

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:59 pm

Nope, commenting out everything .htaccess makes no difference. I think i may have read somewhere that having gd enabled in gallery can affect nuke installs. Anyone aware of this ?

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:37 pm

Never seen this before (thought it was the above). So, what I now suspect is that it is one of two things:

1. Corrupt file from your FTP process (use a good FTP client such as FileZilla - free from sourceforge.net - and re-upload your modules/Forums directory and includes directory)

2. You host may be using mod_security and maybe there is a rule in there somewhere that is stopping this.

That is all that I can think of.

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 5:58 pm

I've found the problem and it was actually nothing to do with gallery ( i just happened to make the change at the same time as installing G2)

I tried to improve security of my site by moving config.php out of the root folder for the site and replacing it with a config file containing

Quote:

<?php include("../config.php"); ?>

This worked fine for everything on the site except the admin page for the forums -- strange !!

If you know of a work-around to allow the forums to work too it would be much appreciated.

Schmitt

registered · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:28 pm

Use the full path of the config file

Code:




include("/path/to/config.php");

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:59 am

Perfect

Many Thanks