[Solved] Unable to moderate my forum?

[monkey]

Your phpBB Version: 2.0.
phpBB Type: Integramod 141
MODs: No
Your knowledge: Beginner
Board URL: http://www.twitchythumbs.co.uk

PHP Version:
MySQL Version:


What was done before the problem appeared?
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What was done to try to solve the problem?
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I've recently taken over a gaming website and when I select the link at the bottom of the forum to moderate a particular forum I am taken to a screen with a listing of the posts. When I place a tick in the boxes for the posts and then click on delete I get an error message stating that:

Your Password Was Incorrect, Please Press Back & Try Again.

I'm logged in to my site and I'm even the Administrator! Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Apologies if I've posted in the wrong place

[CaNNon]

After you login can you login on the admin pannel?

[monkey]

Hi,

Yes I can see the Admin Panel on the left and access all the options. I'm listed as a moderator for all the forums as well as I thought it maybe that, even though I'm an Administrator, but still no joy.

Help!!!

[monkey]

bump

[Frost]

Are you the founder or an admin?

The founder may have set permissions that disallow regular admins to delete posts.

That being said, it could also be a true error.
Have to wait out someone familiar with this I'm afraid.

[monkey]

Well, we took over the site from someone else, so I guess she is the founder, though I've set her to only be a mod now, and me and a mate are admins.

[monkey]

Any advice?

[CaNNon]

I saw something like that once when the Amount of allowed admins did not match.
check, admin > security > special > Amount of allowed admins.
I'm not sure but it's worth checking.

I think your going to want to get that founder acc. back too. I don't think you should be changing things in that one.

[monkey]

I can't get into the "special" security menu.

Again because of not being the founder????

[nGAGE]

YES... You could solve this only by messing with the database!
If you check phpbb_users you'll find that user_id "-1" is annonymouse, the first user should be user_id "2" (which is the board founder!).
See [url=http]Here[/url]

with phpMyAdmin access you can solve it like this (i would think):
[list type=decimal]
[*] Access database via phpMyAdmin
[*] Go to "phpbb_users"
[*] In top click "browse"
(it will list all users)
[*] Look for and available user_id for the previous founder
(if never a user has been deleted before, just look what's the last and add +1)
[*] Find Change the previous founders user_id to that number
[*] Now find and change your own user_id to 2
(theoretically this would make you Board Founder I think)[/list]

I would make sure for this first though, but letting the Staff confirm this!!! Wouldn't want a security feature I don't know about ban you or something!


Hope it helps though <img>


PS: You "could" test on a localhost for once!

[monkey]

looking now...

[monkey]

Ok, found the founder - username of "Twitchy" and her id is 2. What do I change it to?

Or should I find me and set me to 2 first?

Can I have 2 board founders??

[monkey]

Ok, I now understand to change twitchy's ID to one higher than the highest number.

I can't have more than 1 board founder it seems which is shit.

[monkey]

I FUCKING LOVE YOU NGAGE!

YOU ARE THE MAN!

IT WORKED!

Thanks thanks thanks!

[monkey]

Or rather, Danke Shun.

[monkey]

HOWEVER - I'm not board founder, but still cannot delete threads using the little "X" icon above the quick reply box.

weird...


EDIT - Meant I'm NOW board founder!

[nGAGE]

What do you mean you're not board founder? Do you have the authority now to check settings in "Security"?
And even if the moderator permissions would be set incorrectly... as Board Founder you should be able to do everything... so I suspect the problem to be rather complicated. Either templates or the php's or maybe even the auth tables in the database?
Not sure... might need some pro help here!

Hmmm... perhaps there is something different about the template files (considering that your theme might not be a true 1.41 template) that will call for something that the php doesn't understand.
Just for testing if it's a templates issue (since the 1.40 templates and the 1.41 have quite some changes in them), try using the default Integra2 template and see if it then works.

[nGAGE]

PS: If you export the current them to a zip, I can compare some of the template-files for ya when I have time! <img>

[monkey]

Sorry, I meant "I'm now board founder..."

I'll try and get the files for you when I have more time. time is a little scarce right now!

[nGAGE]

No problem... would be weird thought if you can't moderate anything being an admin, as the system wouldn't restrict you from doing so... but we'll see!

[nGAGE]

OK... So I've been searching the download section and on Found-it, and couldn't find the AcidTech theme anywhere!
Could be that it's just a phpBB2 theme and was never ported properly. Would explain the many problems you're having!
Maybe started out with phpBB2 forum, upgraded it to Integra and not all theme files got updated properly?!

I could be wrong, but could be the cause of a lot of your problems. We'll see! I'll be awaiting your files! If I got even more spare time, I'll port the theme! So please, if anybody knows where the theme is available (ported already) let me know!

[monkey]

I gess you don't need the files anymore?!

[nGAGE]

He he... obviously not... your theme/template-files are now (to my knowledge) 1.41 compatible

[monkey]

Great.

We can now moderate the forums, so this fault at least, is resolved!

[nGAGE]

PS: to another question i forgot to answer... I can't tell where your NEWS is posted exactly, as any post on the website could be having the tag "POST AS GENERAL NEWS" or something. Generally it's up to the boards management to organise it into specific setion/forum to have all with access to post NEWS posts only being able to do it there.

[monkey]

hu? *confused*.

I'm in msn if you wanna IM me

[nGAGE]

[SOLVED]

[Frost]

Ok, marking it