Access Denied in Admin Panel

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

This is almost 100% of the time caused by a misconfiguration of your database connection parameters in your config.php file. And, the most often misconfigured item is the $dbtype parameter. If you are using MySQL, then this must be set to MySQL (case sensitive) regardless of the version of MySQL that you are using. If you are convinced that your settings are correct, then download the conntest script from http://nukecops.com/downloads-file-6.html and post the link with your problem report.

Private Joined: Oct 31, 2004 Posts: 46

All i done to fix that was edited my config.php and the sql setings to allow admin temp access from any account for 300 seconds as of 12-10-2004 allowed any1 to access admin for 300 seconds long enough for an admin to change their own password pretty risky but it worked.

Captain Joined: Mar 09, 2004 Posts: 329

This might also happen if you install chatserv's patched versions and are on a server that is running php-cgi. Those patches are not designed to work as php-cgi

Just a sanity check if this happens to you.

Corporal Joined: Oct 17, 2003 Posts: 51

I am having this same problem and did use Chatserv's security pathces. Two things.

First, the link Raven provided doesn't work (or I'm missing something b/c it's just taking me back to ww.nukecops.com). Anyone have a link to the analyze file she's refering to?

Second, if it IS the Chatserv patch, then is there any way I can get the security patches but also have my site running? I'd hate to have a site w/o the patches...

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jan 07, 2005 Posts: 2

I have noticed that will also sometimes happen if you used special characters in the god user name....

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 03, 2003 Posts: 25

I get an access denied in the admin panel but just for the forums. Everything else works fine. If I click the Forum admin icon I get the following :

Quote:

A file permissions error has occurred. Please check the permissions on the script and the directory it is in and try again.

I have Chatserv's patches installed (it's nuke 7.7 by the way) and also have another site updated in the same way on the same server but that doesn't have the same problem.

Oh and my host does unfortunatly run php as a cgi script Sad

There has to be some way to fix this ?

Nuke Cadet Joined: Sep 14, 2005 Posts: 7

I get this when i use my sub domain on my site and that is it is there a way ican fix this so i can have a domain set up specialy for this site

see

cwm.eternal-hosting.net/admin.php
Eternal-hosting.net/cwm/admin.php

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12373

It should work on a subdomain. What version are you using?

Tried clearing your cookies?

Nuke Cadet Joined: Sep 14, 2005 Posts: 7

i have no clue all i kno is i need to update it

Nuke Cadet Joined: Nov 18, 2006 Posts: 2

Hi, I am very new to PHPNuke. I am trying to set up phpnuke on my site at the moment but I'm having some difficulty. I changed the settings in my config.php file to :

Quote:

$dbhost = "82.110.105.77";
$dbuname = "web77-waddy";
$dbpass = "*****";
$dbname = "web77-waddy@localhost";
$prefix = "nuke";
$user_prefix = "nuke";
$dbtype = "MySQL";
$sitekey = "361549abc123";
$gfx_chk = 0;
$subscription_url = "";
$admin_file = "admin";
$nuke_editor = 1;
$display_errors = false;

I then uploaded all the files to my server. But now when I try to access www.mysite.com/admin.php it comes up with ' A file permissions error has occurred. Please check the permissions on the script and the directory it is in and try again. '

I was wondering if there was anything in my config.php that was causing this. Seeing as you guys know a lot about phpnuke, could you please help me out.

BTW, I'm using a Linux (Red Hat) box.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12373

That is a weird error, it sounds like something with your file system. Can you run any PHP scripts?

A standard phpinfo:

Code:

<?
phpinfo();
?>