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Bill Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 16 February 2004 Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bill Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Can’t get administrator permission! Posted: 16 February 2004 at 1:34pm
	Hi there, sorry to be such a pain today, but am not having an easy time with my installation! Have installed the system OK, and logged in as Administrator (pwd letmein). But when I click on the ADMIN icon it takes me to the 'insufficient_permission.asp page, so I cannot get any administration access to the forum! Any ideas?

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 February 2004 at 1:36pm
	Sounds like a corrupted file, try reuploading, also check your browser is accepting cookies, IE suffers froma few cookie bugs so a better browser like Mozilla may solve your problem, or resetting the cookie index in IE.
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Bill Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 16 February 2004 Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bill Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 February 2004 at 3:19pm
	No - I've reinstalled all the files. And tried logging on from about 10 different computers. And tried resetting the cookie index. There is no problem with cookies that I can see. This is driving me NUTS! "Sorry, only members with sufficient permission can access this page". Go check it yourself: www.boards.co.uk/forum I have done absolutely nothing to the system since installing it, since I cannot get at the admin functions to do so. So that is it in its raw state... What, within the system, might be causing this? Is it a case that I need to go into one of the db tables and change a value there (i.e. the permissions setting for administrator, or whatever?) Would really really appreciate any help you might be able to offer! Edited by Bill

dj air Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 05 April 2002 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3627	Post Options Post Reply Quote dj air Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 February 2004 at 3:27pm
	i had a look ... it seems ok outside the admin area... have you changed anything .... one thing it might be is the name for the cookies is not correct in the admin folder .. open the common.asp file in the admin folder and check to see what value is set for cookie name it is ussually set to WWF by default .. also check the main forum one ..... in the common.asp

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 February 2004 at 3:34pm
	I had a look and found that you have changed the prefix for the cookies to BWWF in the admin common.asp file but not in the main common.asp file. Make sure the cookie prefix is the same in both. Failing that I was able to login to the admin area directly through the following link:- www.boards.co.uk/forum/admin
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Bill Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 16 February 2004 Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bill Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 February 2004 at 3:42pm
	You're lovely people. I really do appreciate the help! Dunno how that bwwf got there; must have been a slip of the keyboard... Thanks again!

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