Unable to Change Permissions for forum user/group

promod · Post by **promod** » Fri May 08, 2015 12:07 pm

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What version of phpBB are you using? phpBB 3.1.4
What is your board's URL? http://www.unnathi.in/forum
Who do you host your board with? net4.in
How did you install your board? I used the download package from phpBB.com
What is the most recent action performed on your board? Update from a previous version of phpBB3
Is registration required to reproduce this issue? Yes
Do you have any MODs installed? Yes
What version of phpBB3 did you update from? phpBB 3.0.13-PL1
What MODs do you have installed? Add User
Advanced Polls
Board Announcements
Custom Code
Holiday Flare
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Log new user
Posts merging
Seo Meta Description
What styles do you currently have installed? prosilver Special Edition
What language(s) is your board currently using? EN
Which database type/version are you using? MySQL 5
What is your level of experience? New to PHP and phpBB
What username can be used to view this issue? No answer given
What password can be used to view this issue? No answer given
When did your problem begin? When created a new Category and Forum after the upgrade from 3.0.14 to 3.1.4
Please describe your problem. Not able to assign the permissions to the new Category/Forum.
I'm only able to copy the existing permissions to any Category/Forum
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Post by **Mick** » Fri May 08, 2015 12:21 pm

The permissions drop downs are an action not a setting and will revert to the original selection because you don't want to copy the other forum's permissions every time you change a setting on the edited forum.

promod · Post by **promod** » Fri May 08, 2015 6:56 pm

Group Forum Permission > Registered Users > Limited Access + Polls > then clicked Advanced Permissions but nothing happens.

in 3.0.x i was able to customize permission by clicking Advanced Permissions and choose whatever i want.

Post by **KevC** » Fri May 08, 2015 7:11 pm

Disable all your extensions and see if that makes it work.

It's a standard option on 3.1 so the only thing you've changed that might be affecting it is the extensions you've added. Note too that most (if not all) are betas and shouldn't be used on a live board in case they cause things like this.

promod · Post by **promod** » Sat May 09, 2015 3:36 am

KevC wrote:Disable all your extensions and see if that makes it work.

This also didn't helped for solving the problem

Oyabun1 · Post by **Oyabun1** » Sat May 09, 2015 9:30 am

It could be a problem in permissions left over from MODs.

Uninstall and delete the date from the extensions and you can then remove non standard modules and permissions by:

Make sure you make a backup of your database before proceeding.
Uploading this file, modission_reset.php, to the root of your board installation on the server.
Log into the board as a founder and/or admin.
Navigate your browser to the file, for example http://www.example.com/example_forum/modission_reset.php
Choose modules and permissions and run the file
It will tell you how many modules and permissions it deletes, or may give you some other message if all is not well. Make a note of that.
It should automatically delete itself from the server, if it can't it will tell you.

promod · Post by **promod** » Sat May 09, 2015 10:16 am

Dont know whether its having a relation or not i have stumbled up on another thread for 500 internal server error problem ..... cleared the cache through FTP manually and changed the cookie setting and now able to change the permissions.

Mick wrote:The cookie settings look ok now. You can try manually clearing the cache using FTP by opening the /cache folder on the server and delete everything except index.htm and .htaccess if you can see it.

Mick wrote:One thing I notice is your Cookie domain is showing johnandbernie.com and it should be .johnandbernie.com, note the leading dot. Once you've fixed that rename your cookie by changing the last letter and purge the board's cache.

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