ADMIN Options Have DISAPPEARED

[ginabella]

Two steps forward and one step back . . .

I am now successfully able to view my new BLOG and it looks pretty and has all the sidebar options, etc. but when I went to EDIT my entries (and it indicates that I am logged in as ME, there are none of the previous options on the side - all it says is:

FRONTPAGE Welcome Back Gina Bella
Back to Weblog
Logout

Anyone have any idea of what I screwed up now????

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

It seems that you went to your personal preferences and set "Forbid create entries" option to "No". This basically withdraws all priviliges from your author account to create entries.

To get things up and running again, you'll need to grant back that privilege either via an admin account that you have still unmodified - or if that was your only account, you'll need to go through phpMyAdmin to modify things.

Or, the much easier way would be to simply drop the serendipity DB and reinstall it, if you haven't already changed many things.

If you want to do it with phpMyAdmin use this query:

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UPDATE serendipity_config SET value = 'false' WHERE name = 'no_create'

If that does not help, please give me the output of these queries:

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SELECT * FROM serendipity_authors;
SELECT * FROM serendipity_authorgroups;
SELECT * FROM serendipity_groupconfig;

Best regards,
Garvin

[ginabella]

Hi!

It seems that you went to your personal preferences and set "Forbid create entries" option to "No". This basically withdraws all priviliges from your author account to create entries.

To get things up and running again, you'll need to grant back that privilege either via an admin account that you have still unmodified - or if that was your only account, you'll need to go through phpMyAdmin to modify things.

Or, the much easier way would be to simply drop the serendipity DB and reinstall it, if you haven't already changed many things.

If you want to do it with phpMyAdmin use this query:

Code: Select all

UPDATE serendipity_config SET value = 'false' WHERE name = 'no_create'

If that does not help, please give me the output of these queries:

Code: Select all

SELECT * FROM serendipity_authors;
SELECT * FROM serendipity_authorgroups;
SELECT * FROM serendipity_groupconfig;

Best regards,
Garvin

I downloaded and worked on installing the phpMyAdmin program and will learn that one day but throwing in the towel on that for now and will try your other option of dropping the serendipity database and reinstalling it - how do I do that? Thanks soooooooo much!
Gina

[ginabella]

Ok - deleted my SERENDIPITY FOLDER on my FTP site and then re-uploaded all Serendipity folders the best I can tell.

I deleted my database and created a new one and I can now see my admin options.

But - I suspect that I may be missing some files because not all of my icons are showing up - for example - the icons that should appear to the left of the listing of Sidebar plugins and the up/down arrows to the right of the listing are not there. I checked and re-checked just about all of my directories on the FTP site and I cant determine what is missing - but something must be. Can anyone point me in theright direction?

Thank you so much for any advice you can provide.
Gina

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Those images would be served from your templates/default/admin/img folder - can you check there if all files are in place?

Else, right-click on the missing image buttons and check what URL your browser is trying to reach, and then check if that file really does not exist.

Best regards,
Garvin

[ginabella]

That did it Garvin, thanks so much.

I downloaded all the Serendipity files on my FTP site to a TEMP directory and I am going to find some FILE/DIRECTORY COMPARE program to see what else might be missing because the banner/HEADERS on the ADMIN pages are missing as well.

I am really learning about this program - hopefully I will be able to learn what else is missing.

Gina

[ginabella]

That did it Garvin, thanks so much.

I downloaded all the Serendipity files on my FTP site to a TEMP directory and I am going to find some FILE/DIRECTORY COMPARE program to see what else might be missing because the banner/HEADERS on the ADMIN pages are missing as well.

I am really learning about this program - hopefully I will be able to learn what else is missing.

Gina

Hello again, all!

I think all is FIXED now - I downloaded and installed a great program called WinMerge 2.4 to compare ALL of the Serendipity files installed on my FTP webhosting site. I ran it to compare WHAT FILES (of the 1700+ needed for Serendipity to run)WERE MISSING from my FTP site. Turns out there were probably about 75 missing from various directories on FTP site - all seems to be okay (I think) now.

Hope this is helpful for anyone missing files and unsure what is missing from their Serendipity site.

Gina