error/admin/accessdenied to admin

error/admin/accessdenied to admin

by mandy honeyman -
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Hello

I do hope someone can help because I am in dire straits sad

I get this error (error/admin/accessdenied) when trying to access http://mysite.org/admin/settings.php?section=frontpagesettings (Frontpage Settings are no longer listed under >admin > frontpage)

Other inidcators that something is terribly wrong:

No "Edit This Page" button on front page and nothing happens when I try editing the command line to http://mysite.org/course/view.php?id=1edit=1&sesskey=T5NvXLMZEl

The other thing that has disappeared is the button that allows me to "Login as" when viewing a user profile.

Please help.

Thank you.
Mandy
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by mandy honeyman -
Add to this:

No access to database under admin > server


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by Mary Cooch -
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Are you the only admin on your Moodle? Are you root admin? Do you have ftp access to your Moodle?
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Re: error/admin/accessdenied to admin

by mandy honeyman -
Hi Mary,

This is the main admin (i.e. user id#0 or 1), there are others but it is not working under their (actually my other) accounts either. Yes i have ftp access.


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by Mary Cooch -
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Have you tried the (desperate) admin fix here: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Beginning_Administration_2_FAQ#I_locked_myself_out_of_the_Administrator_role._What_do_I_do.3F
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by mandy honeyman -
I'm afraid I have tried that yes. Also changing theme etc. I do believe that I made a change to one (yes therein lies the problem - which one) of the options in admin and between walking from my desk at home to my desk at school the ability to edit disappeared! I have tried stepping through each and every option but just can't find what I might have done.

I had also done an upgrade in the meantime, having not realised there wa s a problem and so cannot roll the database back.

sad
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by Andrew Field -
Hi Mandy (hope all is well aside from this Moodle issue)

Have you been able to solve it yet?
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by mandy honeyman -
Hi Andrew smile

Nope, still not solved. I have switched all users straight to /my page but when they log out they still get the awful messed up home page because I can't change it.

Driving me a little nuts sad.

All the best
Mandy

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by Andrew Field -
It would be a bit of of a bodge fix, but could you do a server side 'forced' redirect to an alternative page such as the school homepage? You could force any index.php page to go there instead.


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by mandy honeyman -
I left this for a while to try to mull over the options. Students and teachers haven't really been that effected (they are set to use mymoodle and login via a portal) except that I was half-way through a redesign when the admin role broke down.

But I haven't got anywhere except the idea that I am going to have to create a new site and restore all the courses to it.

I really don't know what I'm going to do with my 900+ users though.

I am very used to having to do back ups of db, of moving site from server to server; I have never tried to port an entire site and all its users (except admin) to a new site.

Any suggestions, warnings, advice would be very welcome.

Thanks
Mandy



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by mandy honeyman -
The great news is that I just managed to fix this by using the

adminfix.php script found at

adminfix.php (about 3kb)

Not the first one that was published (about 1kb), or the one that I seem to have ended up with at some point which weighed in at 11kb. (So you can see that I did try this before several times.)

Interestingly it reset the primary admin to an admin account that I was using for google connectivity not the admin account I usually use, but to be honest, I simply don't care as long as I can make the edits I need to.

Thanks to everyone and anyone who has tried to help me over the last couple of months.

All the b est
Mandy



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by Mary Cooch -
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I'm glad it worked Mandy- seems like we have more than one version of adminfix.php around -but if this did the trick, then all the better.
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