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Migrated Forum from phpbb3, permission issues

mrlayancemrlayance New
edited November 2011 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
Hello, just migrated my forum from phpbb3 very smoothly.

Question, the default Roles & Permission seem to have been overwritten. I set up a Guest role for unauthenticated users. I gave the guests view, but when a guest views the forum nothing exists. The only this that shows is "All Categories".

Anyone seen this before?
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  • ToddTodd Vanilla Staff
    Answer ✓
    Browse to http :// yourforum.com/role/defaultroles and make sure everything is set up properly there too.

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  • x00x00 MVP
    edited November 2011
    You should have a guest role automatically. It is a special role. do you have this message 
    Heads Up! This is a special role that does not allow active sessions.
    For this reason, the permission options have been limited to "view" permissions.
    Make sure view discussions is checked on the categories you want.

    grep is your friend.

  • mrlayancemrlayance New
    Nope, seems to be missing. I might just do a second default install and copy the roles.
  • x00x00 MVP
    Guest role ID is 2 in the database (1 is Banned) Deletable 0, CanSession 0

    grep is your friend.

  • ToddTodd Vanilla Staff
    Answer ✓
    Browse to http :// yourforum.com/role/defaultroles and make sure everything is set up properly there too.
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