Help! Transfered servers now can't log into forum admin

Sergeant Joined: Jul 07, 2003 Posts: 140

I recently transfered my site to a new server. The transfer seemed flawless everything is working except I cannot log into the forum admin section. I can, as the admin, access all other phpnuke admin functions and the site is otherwise perfect.

In addition, I tried creating a new super user account (no problem doing so) and the same problem occurs. The error is:

Quote:

You are not authorised to administer this board

Seems strange? However you can imagine Rolling Eyes

the problems this is causing. Any help greatly appreciated. I'm using the newest version of the NC bundle.

Sergeant Joined: Jul 07, 2003 Posts: 140

Well I was able to get it working by replacing the pagestart.php file with an older version:

The new version (the one that didn't work)

Code:

<?php
/***************************************************************************
* pagestart.php
* -------------------
* begin : Thursday, Aug 2, 2001
* copyright : (C) 2001 The phpBB Group
* email : support@phpbb.com
*
* $Id: pagestart.php,v 1.3 2003/10/31 20:18:47 cs Exp $
*
*
***************************************************************************/
/***************************************************************************
* phpbb2 forums port version 2.0.5 (c) 2003 - Nuke Cops (http://nukecops.com)
*
* Ported by Nuke Cops to phpbb2 standalone 2.0.5 Test
* and debugging completed by the Elite Nukers and site members.
*
* You run this package at your sole risk. Nuke Cops and affiliates cannot
* be held liable if anything goes wrong. You are advised to test this
* package on a development system. Backup everything before implementing
* in a production environment. If something goes wrong, you can always
* backout and restore your backups.
*
* Installing and running this also means you agree to the terms of the AUP
* found at Nuke Cops.
*
* This is version 2.0.5 of the phpbb2 forum port for PHP-Nuke. Work is based
* on Tom Nitzschner's forum port version 2.0.6. Tom's 2.0.6 port was based
* on the phpbb2 standalone version 2.0.3. Our version 2.0.5 from Nuke Cops is
* now reflecting phpbb2 standalone 2.0.5 that fixes some bugs and the
* invalid_session error message.
***************************************************************************/
/***************************************************************************
* This file is part of the phpBB2 port to Nuke 6.0 (c) copyright 2002
* by Tom Nitzschner (tom@toms-home.com)
* http://bbtonuke.sourceforge.net (or http://www.toms-home.com)
*
* As always, make a backup before messing with anything. All code
* release by me is considered sample code only. It may be fully
* functual, but you use it at your own risk, if you break it,
* you get to fix it too. No waranty is given or implied.
*
* Please post all questions/request about this port on http://bbtonuke.sourceforge.net first,
* then on my site. All original header code and copyright messages will be maintained
* to give credit where credit is due. If you modify this, the only requirement is
* that you also maintain all original copyright messages. All my work is released
* under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. Please see the README for more information.
*
***************************************************************************/
/***************************************************************************
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
***************************************************************************/

if (!defined('IN_PHPBB'))
{
die("Hacking attempt");
}

define('IN_ADMIN', true);
$forum_admin = 1;
include("../../../mainfile.php");
include($phpbb_root_path.'common.'.$phpEx);
//
// Do a check to see if the nuke user is still valid.
//

global $admin;
$admin = base64_decode($admin);
$admin = explode(":", $admin);
$aid = "$admin[0]";
$sql = "SELECT radminforum, radminsuper FROM ".$prefix."_authors WHERE aid='$aid'";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
if ($radminsuper != 1 OR $radminforum != 1) {
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, "You are not authorised to administer this board");
}
/*
global $cookie, $nukeuser;
$user = base64_decode($user);
$cookie = explode(":", $user);
$sql = "SELECT user_id, user_password FROM " . USERS_TABLE . "
WHERE username='$cookie[1]'";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
if(!$result) {
message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not query user account', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
}
$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
if ($cookie[2] == $row['user_password'] && $row['user_password'] != "") {
$nukeuser = $user;
} else {
unset($user);
unset($cookie);
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, "You are not authorised to administer this board");
}
*/
//
// Start session management
//
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX, $nukeuser);
init_userprefs($userdata);
//
// End session management
//
/*
if( !$userdata['session_logged_in'] )
{
$header_location = ( @preg_match('/Microsoft|WebSTAR|Xitami/', $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE']) ) ? 'Refresh: 0; URL=' : 'Location: ';
header($header_location . '../../../' . append_sid("login.$phpEx?redirect=admin/"));
exit;
}
else if( $userdata['user_level'] != ADMIN )
{
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, $lang['Not_admin']);
}
*/
if ( empty($no_page_header) )
{
// Not including the pageheader can be neccesarry if META tags are
// needed in the calling script.
include('./page_header_admin.'.$phpEx);
}

?>

The old one that worked for me:

Code:

<?php original
/***************************************************************************
* pagestart.php
* -------------------
* begin : Thursday, Aug 2, 2001
* copyright : (C) 2001 The phpBB Group
* email : support@phpbb.com
*
* $Id: pagestart.php,v 1.1.1.1 2003/06/28 01:13:11 root Exp $
*
*
***************************************************************************/
/***************************************************************************
* phpbb2 forums port version 2.0.5 (c) 2003 - Nuke Cops (http://nukecops.com)
*
* Ported by Nuke Cops to phpbb2 standalone 2.0.5 Test
* and debugging completed by the Elite Nukers and site members.
*
* You run this package at your sole risk. Nuke Cops and affiliates cannot
* be held liable if anything goes wrong. You are advised to test this
* package on a development system. Backup everything before implementing
* in a production environment. If something goes wrong, you can always
* backout and restore your backups.
*
* Installing and running this also means you agree to the terms of the AUP
* found at Nuke Cops.
*
* This is version 2.0.5 of the phpbb2 forum port for PHP-Nuke. Work is based
* on Tom Nitzschner's forum port version 2.0.6. Tom's 2.0.6 port was based
* on the phpbb2 standalone version 2.0.3. Our version 2.0.5 from Nuke Cops is
* now reflecting phpbb2 standalone 2.0.5 that fixes some bugs and the
* invalid_session error message.
***************************************************************************/
/***************************************************************************
* This file is part of the phpBB2 port to Nuke 6.0 (c) copyright 2002
* by Tom Nitzschner (tom@toms-home.com)
* http://bbtonuke.sourceforge.net (or http://www.toms-home.com)
*
* As always, make a backup before messing with anything. All code
* release by me is considered sample code only. It may be fully
* functual, but you use it at your own risk, if you break it,
* you get to fix it too. No waranty is given or implied.
*
* Please post all questions/request about this port on http://bbtonuke.sourceforge.net first,
* then on my site. All original header code and copyright messages will be maintained
* to give credit where credit is due. If you modify this, the only requirement is
* that you also maintain all original copyright messages. All my work is released
* under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. Please see the README for more information.
*
***************************************************************************/
/***************************************************************************
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
***************************************************************************/

if (!defined('IN_PHPBB'))
{
die("Hacking attempt");
}

define('IN_ADMIN', true);
$forum_admin = 1;
include("../../../mainfile.php");
include($phpbb_root_path.'common.'.$phpEx);
//
// Do a check to see if the nuke user is still valid.
//

global $admin;
$admin = base64_decode($admin);
$admin = explode(":", $admin);
$aid = "$admin[0]";
$sql = "SELECT radminforum, radminsuper FROM ".$prefix."_authors WHERE aid='$aid'";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
if (!is_admin($admin) AND ($row[radminsuper] != 1 OR $row[radminforum] != 1)) {
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, "You are not authorised to administer this board");
}
/*
global $cookie, $nukeuser;
$user = base64_decode($user);
$cookie = explode(":", $user);
$sql = "SELECT user_id, user_password FROM " . USERS_TABLE . "
WHERE username='$cookie[1]'";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
if(!$result) {
message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not query user account', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
}
$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
if ($cookie[2] == $row['user_password'] && $row['user_password'] != "") {
$nukeuser = $user;
} else {
unset($user);
unset($cookie);
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, "You are not authorised to administer this board");
}
*/
//
// Start session management
//
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX, $nukeuser);
init_userprefs($userdata);
//
// End session management
//
/*
if( !$userdata['session_logged_in'] )
{
$header_location = ( @preg_match('/Microsoft|WebSTAR|Xitami/', $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE']) ) ? 'Refresh: 0; URL=' : 'Location: ';
header($header_location . '../../../' . append_sid("login.$phpEx?redirect=admin/"));
exit;
}
else if( $userdata['user_level'] != ADMIN )
{
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, $lang['Not_admin']);
}
*/
if ( empty($no_page_header) )
{
// Not including the pageheader can be neccesarry if META tags are
// needed in the calling script.
include('./page_header_admin.'.$phpEx);
}

?>

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 12, 2003 Posts: 7

I had the same problem and I did the same. The old version is working for me as well.

But I still have the problem with phpBBmyAdmin. I'm getting this message:

You are not allowed to access phpBBMyAdmin!

I tried all available versions but without sucsess.

Is it working on your site? What version are you using?

I think it has something to do with User_ID. Just User_ID 2 is allowed to access it.

Sergeant Joined: Jul 07, 2003 Posts: 140

Nope exact same problem...