admin page doesn't work

lexthoonen · Post by **lexthoonen** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:32 am

Hi,

I have to sort out a serendipity installation for a client, as when he logged in as admin, the page would have only three links on the left: frontpage, back to weblog and logout. In the center bit it only says 'welcome back, his name'. Underneath, there is nothing.

I thought I'd upgrade to the latest version (this one was almost 2 yrs old) and it all went smooth.

Now on the admin page, (apart from a block with general links to serendipity pages on the right) nothing has changed however. Still no admin functions.

How could I solve this?

Thanks!

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:34 pm

Hi!

When this happens, the user withdrew himself from privileges, by setting the option "Allow to create entries: no" (or was it "Forbid creating entries: yes", don't remember).

You'll need to fix this in the database table. Serendipity as of version 1.2 no longer has this setting for non-admin users.

Please search this forum for "no_create" and "right_publish", there you should see the required SQL statements to fix this.

HTH,
Garvin

lexthoonen · Post by **lexthoonen** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 1:49 pm

Well thanks Garvin, I'll go and check it out!