Posted by Aleet on May 26, 2009 at 3:55pm
Hello,
I've got Drupal 5 site that won't let user 1 (or anyone else with privilages) to stay logged in.
It lets me login. I see the admin the menu. But as soon as I click on ANY admin link, it says "Access Denied" and the admin menu disappears and I'm logged out.
Another user has the experience on his machine so I know it's not particular to my box, like a browser cookies issue.
Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this. I couldn't find any posts on drupal.org that matched my scenario.
thanks.
ali
Comments
Check the modules
Sometimes a module can be a culprit. Is there any modules added recently?
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Sounds like a sessions issue
It doesn't sound like the sessions are being set properly. You mentioned using Drupal 5 - what version of php are you using? There were conflicts with Drupal session handling and certain versions of php. http://drupal.org/node/192151 deals with that issue - I applied the patch from this and my site worked like a charm after that. You could also check to see that user with uid 0 exists on your site. If not, that may also be a possible culprit.
https login maybe?
I saw this happen with a drupal site that was using a module that did https logins that didn't have a valid ssl certificate configured. I had to disable the module in the database to get admin access back for the client.
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