Permission Problem for Registered Users

sashok

Everything is working just fine for my admin account... however, when a non-admin user registers and begins to browse, he gets a permission error that reads:

Permission Problem.
You don't have permission to do that.

This happens when:
Clicking on the non-admin user name (for the profile page)
Clicking on Activity link

Everything else, as far as I know, is accessible without the permissions error.
I tried this myself by registering a test user and ran into the same problem. This happens with and without Social Sign On.

Install details:
- Just upgraded to 2.0.15 from 2.0.14. 2.0.14 was a clean install, no import. I'm not sure whether this problem occurred in 2.0.14 and is caused by upgrading.
- Hosted on a GoDaddy shared hosting account running Linux
- URL: fordauthority.com/forum/
- Here's the link to my PHP Info: fordauthority.com/forum/phpinfo.php

Thanks so much for any help!

Alex

Linc

@sasok There are 2 new permissions in 2.0.15 (Garden.Activity.View and Garden.Profiles.View) that you need to grant to your registered users. This works automatically for default installs, but I suspect you imported from other software, right? There's a bit of a bug in that the new permission wasn't doled out to most imported roles, hence the problem. Adding those permissions to the member role in your Dashboard should fix it.

sashok

@Lincoln Thanks for the reply!

I will check the permissions out shortly, but I did not import from another software; I clean installed 2.0.14 and then upgraded to 2.0.15.

Linc

Maybe the issue is more involved than I thought. :-/ Let me know if updating the roles works.

sashok

@Lincoln I'm supposed to change the "member" permission, right?

When I click the edit button, this is all I see for Garden:
http://fordauthority.com/forum/member.png

Which one should I tick off?

sashok

Just checked a fresh install of 2.0.15 and my upgraded version is missing the "View" column from the Garden section.

Linc

@sashok Did you go to /utility/structure and run the upgrade script to finish the upgrade?

sashok

@Lincoln Nope, forgot to do that.

But when I try to run it, I get thrown back to my blog.
Vanilla is at /forum/ - check this out - http://fordauthority.com/forum/utility/structure/

Linc

Sorry, I assumed you had "pretty" URLs enabled.

You'll want this: http://fordauthority.com/forum/index.php?p=/utility/structure/

Also, you must be logged in as the user that installed the forum. Or, manually set admin='1' in the User database table for the user you log in as.

sashok

Yup, running the utility/structure script sure did it.

Thanks so much Lincoln.

My next step is to figure out why pretty permalinks don't work for me. I'll start another thread for that and link back from here.

Thanks again!

sashok

Just started another thread about my WordPress setup hijacking Vanilla's Pretty Permalinks.

Follow the discussion here - http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/13829/wordpress-hijacks-vanilla-pretty-permalinks

Shaman

sashok, look at this
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/13789/vanilla-2.0.15-released/p1

Shmizzle

Just upgraded to 2.0.17 from 2.0.11, and I did run the script, but guests and members can no longer view profiles. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Shmizzle

FWIW, I ran the SQL query as mentioned here: https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/issues#issue/655 (update GDN_User set Permissions = null;) but unfortunately that didn't change anything.