Hi,
As the title says, I am new to openpublish--and Drupal in general. I am having troubles with the installation of Openpublish on my server and I hope someone may be able to help.
First, my site can be viewed here: http://jamesalmquist.com/jamesftp/openpublish/openpublish/
I did not install it to the root directory because I just plan on using the space to "mess" around with openpublish and see if it fits my needs. I am also going to be trying out nodestream as well. So, my web host offers a quick and easy Drupal installation as part of its basic package and I installed that last night just fine. Only thing was, it was Drupal 7 and open publish only works on 6. So I deleted all instances of Drupal 7 (atleast I think I did) and I downloaded the OpenPublish core package from here: http://openpublishapp.com/download
After unzipping it, I uploaded it to my server, which took about 2 hours (i'm on my third try, so i've wasted 6 hours on this problem). After it finished uploading, I went to install it and that went fine. I created a new database, admin/password and inputted them into the OpenPublish fields and it worked fine. No errors or anything. It then directed me to the homepage with OpenPublish supposedly installed on and as you can see in my link above, it did install just fine.
Now, here's my problem. I can't access the admin page to begin to customize my site. I am not getting any errors or anything like that as people in the past have posted about, I am physically unable to click the wrench and have anything happen. Clicking the wrench does nothing. It doesn't direct me to a new page, return an error, nothing.
I am logged in as the admin so I do not know what the problem. If anyone could be of some assistance I would greatly appreciate it. I consider myself more of a designer than a programmer/server admin and this is all very new to but I am willing to learn I pick things up very quickly.
Thank you.
Comments
This isn't a problem with OP,
This isn't a problem with OP, it's an issue either with your browser or another script on the page which is breaking the wrench, it's happened to me before...
Can you access it at http://jamesalmquist.com/jamesftp/openpublish/openpublish/admin ?
Have you added anything to the installation/edited any theme files?
Also, try it in another browser and flush your caches...
Yes, that worked. Thanks a
Yes, that worked. Thanks a lot. I'm seeing errors in the status report, but i will try and fix those myself before I go asking for help again. Thanks a lot.
New problems
Ok, so i've handled most of the error logs (the ones that matter) but I still cannot hit that wrench and have something happen. I've cleared my cache, not only in OpenPublish, but my web browser (Chrome) as well. I've cleared the main cache in OpenPublish admin page and also tried viewing the site in a browser I haven't used in ages (Safari), but still nothing.
Can anyone point in the direction to a fix?
Have you done anything to OP
Have you done anything to OP except install it?
No., but like I said, this is
No., but like I said, this is my third install. I did add content to the Privacy Policy page but that's it. I've also cleared cache date in the Performance Section.
New Update
Ok, so I completely deleted all instances of Drupal off my server and set up a sub domain: news.jamesalmquist.com
Install went fine, but the same problem persists. I'm really out of ideas on what to do. I've created new mysql databases, users, installed multiple times, said f*ck it and installed Drupal 7 only to revert back to 6 because I want to use Open Publish.
If you look at this picture, I also believe I have another problem.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/850/picture1fr.png/
The Views tab is not collapsable, neither is any other tab in my modules window. Does this help anyone out?
If it helps, I can give you any information you might need, whether it be file structure on my server, mysql info, anything. I'd really like to get this fixed asap so I can actually begin learning the system.
Have you got any Chrome
Have you got any Chrome addons active? Things like 'adblock' will sometimes break the scripts that control both of those things...
Yeah I thought about adblock
Yeah I thought about adblock and I disabled it right away but that didn't fix it. I just had my web host completely clear my server of everything so I am starting completely fresh. We'll see if this works and go from there.
I really appreciate all the help btw
Ok, so here's an update. I
Ok, so here's an update.
I had my web host completely clear my server. Apparently I didn't have the write permissions to delete some files and folders from past attempts at installing Drupal, OP, and Nodestream. So after that, everything was gone and I started completely fresh, no databases, folders...nothing. I installed Open Publish in the root directory, created a database/user and again it installed fine. Adblock was disabled, I cleared my browser cache and the cache on OpenPublish. Still, I could not click the wrench and have anything happen. I said f*ck it, again, and installed Nodestream, hoping it would work. Nope. Same problem as Openpublish where I cannot click the wrench. I don't understand what i'm doing wrong. I became frustrated and decided to try Joomla!, but after some perusing of their extensions and add-ons, I've found that I would have to pay for the same capabilities I could get for free with Drupal/OpenPublish.
So, i'm all out of options. Drupal 7 works perfectly but I don't have the patience or current capabilities to begin to undertake building a site from scratch.
I'm open to anything. Even giving over the username/password to my Cpanel and letting someone either look at what i've done, or try the install themselves. Anything. I'm sure it is something I'm doing wrong and not something to do with my web host.
As far as I can see, the only
As far as I can see, the only problem which you've got is with the admin toolbar, yeah?
If so, that's not a major problem, certainly not one which would make you resort to going to Joomla for a publishing solution!
Firstly, you don't need the toolbar to navigate through your admin, it just makes it easier.... You can do everything possible through /admin Secondly, just try another admin toolbar! There's a few to choose from...
Probably it's just a matter
Probably it's just a matter of familiarity, but I prefer the Admin Menu module to the one you've been having problems with -- http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu . Turn off the one that's troublesome for you and give the other a try.
That's one of the strengths of Drupal: there's more than one way to skin a cat.
Admin tool bar not working in OP
This dialogue looks familiar, just yesterday installed OP v2.3 B441, upload went well - everything working except for the Admin Menu and not able to add content unless I use admin/settings/openpublish/content
So I started building the site today and no end of trying so I ask the same question, how do you get the admin menu to work in OP v2.3 B44
The site is
www.imagenews.com.au/imagenews
Hope to able to contribute once I get my head around drupal & OP, this is my first custom site .... ever.
Installed but no way to log in to Admin
I installed just fine and actually was looking for how to register from the front page when I logged out of bayareareview.net
Now, I can't get logged back in to the admin site and no way to register a new user.
I tried going to bayareareview.net/admin and it says Access Denied.
Any ideas?