editdiscussion Page Not Found

ApolloPiglet · March 2016

Is there something I need to toggle to make this work? I can edit as an admin but not as a normal registered user.

When I try and edit a post I made it says the page is not found.

Note - I also have this line in my config

$Configuration['Garden']['EditContentTimeout'] = '-1';

What am I doing wrong?

Mark

Eclipse · March 2016

Try going to Dashboard>Forum>Advanced and changing the Discussion and Comment Editing field:

I'm new to Vanilla, but a value of '-1' in a 'Timeout' setting usually means 'never allow'
Edit: I suppose it could also mean 'always allow' haha

R_J · March 2016

@Eclipse said:
I'm new to Vanilla, but a value of '-1' in a 'Timeout' setting usually means 'never allow'
Edit: I suppose it could also mean 'always allow' haha

You are correct But when in doubt, look at the source: -1 means no timeout. 0 means immediate timeout. > 0 is in seconds. 60 * 60 = 3600 (aka 1hr)

It would through a permission error if editing is not allowed.

Look at following urls:
1. the url of your discussion
2. the link that you as a admin see for editing the discussion
3. the link that a normal user sees for editing this discussion

Are there any peculiarities?

ApolloPiglet · March 2016

The URL of a discussion would look something like this :

http://mysite.com/community/discussion/2/start-here#latest

The URL to edit for an admin looks like this :

http://mysite.com/community/vanilla/post/editdiscussion/2

The URL to edit for a normal looks like this :

http://mysite.com/community/vanilla/post/editdiscussion/postID

where postID is the ID of the post they are trying to edit.

(Side note - I have "solved" this problem in a way by not displaying the editing tools anymore - but giving users the ability to edit would be nice)e

R_J · March 2016

So the url for admins and users is the same but users get a "Page not found"? That's strange. Sorry, I have no idea on that

If it only happens to you, deleting browser cache might help, but I do not really believe that...

Eclipse · March 2016

I'm assuming you mean that it is saying "page not found" in a popup and not actually redirecting you to a 404?

I'm not sure if a plugin/theme/addon/etc can modify a class controller, but check to see if any of them are trying to override the file 'class.postcontroller.php' found in [your forum directory]/applications/vanilla/controllers and check that core file itself in case it was changed.

It should look like (originally starting at line 548):

    // Check permissions
    if ($Discussion && $Editing) {
        // Permission to edit
        if ($this->Comment->InsertUserID != $Session->UserID) {
            $this->permission('Vanilla.Comments.Edit', true, 'Category', $Discussion->PermissionCategoryID);
        }

        // Make sure that content can (still) be edited.
        $EditContentTimeout = c('Garden.EditContentTimeout', -1);
        $CanEdit = $EditContentTimeout == -1 || strtotime($this->Comment->DateInserted) + $EditContentTimeout > time();
        if (!$CanEdit) {
            $this->permission('Vanilla.Comments.Edit', true, 'Category', $Discussion->PermissionCategoryID);
        }

nonce · March 2016

follow the typical troubleshooting protocol to solve your issue. see tutorials.
other addons applications, plugins and themes can have unusual unexpected impacts.
you had trouble with yaga before - did you test after disabling yaga and other plugins and reverting to the default theme.