Admin setup for forums error

Nuke Cadet Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Posts: 4

Hey all, I'm new to PHP-Nuke, and have been experimenting with it for the last few days.

For some reason, my administrator page for the forums wont work. I go to the admin page, then click on the "Forums" Icon in the _MODULESADMIN section. But then all I get is "HTTP 500 Internal server error" and the page can't be displayed.

I haven't changed much, just a few images and made some test blocks and things, but the forums will be a central part of this site (if they work) so I need some help

any advice is appreciated.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12383

You must be logged in as
a) a Nuke admin with Forums permissions
AND
b) a Nuke user with forums administrator (user_level = 2) privileges

Nuke Cadet Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Posts: 4

as far as I know I'm the super user. Doesn't that give me all access?

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12383

No, the forums use the user access based on phpBB's forum administrator user_level

Nuke Cadet Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Posts: 4

and how do I access that and give myself the priveliges? I'm quite new to all this.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12383

Log into Your_Account, use phpMyAdmin to change your user's user_level

There are other posts to explain how to do that

Nuke Cadet Joined: Mar 10, 2008 Posts: 4

sorry but I cannot find any other posts on how to use phpMyAdmin. I found it and got in ok, but from there I have no idea what to do.

By the way I'm using x10hosting with the cPanel stuff on the server.