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Jan 24^th, 2011 at 9:18pm

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Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

Hi guys, I really need your help. I just upgraded to 2.5, and somehow I don't have the uppermost menu, the one that has the Home/Help/Seacrh/Members/UserCP/Admin. The logo also says YaBB 2.3, don't know why. I really wanted to reopen the forum today, could you help?

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Reply #1 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 9:48pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

Hi,

Midnight Cowboy wrote on Jan 24^th, 2011 at 9:18pm:

I don't have the uppermost menu, the one that has the Home/Help/Seacrh/Members/UserCP/Admin.

Do you mean that the entire menu is missing or just the 'Admin' tab? If the entire menu is missing, can you give me a link to your forum please? If you don't want to post it publicly then you can PM it to me.

Midnight Cowboy wrote on Jan 24^th, 2011 at 9:18pm:

The logo also says YaBB 2.3, don't know why.

This is just because the upgrade package only includes new images that have been added since older versions - the new logo isn't included in the upgrade package, so that's nothing to worry about.

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Reply #2 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 9:54pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

It's the whole menu. The forum is http://www.liguetotal.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl

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Reply #3 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:05pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

Okay, open up Variables/Settings.pl in a text editor and you should have something that looks like this:

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########## Advanced Tabs ##########

@AdvancedTabs = ("home","help","search","ml","admin","revalidatesession","login","register","guestpm","mycenter","logout"); # Advanced Tabs order and infos

Is it there?

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Reply #4 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:08pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

I don't seem to have the file at all!

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Reply #5 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:12pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

Wait, the file is there, I read Sources/ and not Variables/, but the piece of code is not in the file, should I add it?

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Reply #6 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:16pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

Midnight Cowboy wrote on Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:12pm:

I read Sources/ and not Variables

Yeah, sorry about that - I typed the wrong directory and modified my post. Embarrassed

Midnight Cowboy wrote on Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:12pm:

but the piece of code is not in the file, should I add it?

Yep. Add it after this (if this is present):

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########## Error Logger ##########

$elmax = 50;                                      # Max number of log entries before rotation
$elenable = 1;                                    # allow for error logging
$elrotate = 1;                                    # Allow for log rotation

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Reply #7 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:25pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

No, the error logger is not there either, why is that? maybe the file is missing other important things?

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Reply #8 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:29pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

I see you have the tab menu working now anyway?

Midnight Cowboy wrote on Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:25pm:

No, the error logger is not there either, why is that? maybe the file is missing other important things?

I'm not 100% sure how the upgrade process works to be honest, but now that you can enter the Admin Center, go into there and save all of the settings - this should write all of the variables to Settings.pl...

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Reply #9 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:34pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

Perfect, yes, I just put the code at the end of the file, to see if it worked. Thank you very much.

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Reply #10 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:35pm

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Great! And, you're very welcome - I'm glad it worked out.

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Reply #11 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:54pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

Derek, sorry to keep on using your time, but the problem is not yet solved. I can't enter the Admin panel. It asks me for my password over and over again. And now it says ALERT!! Form Spoofing Detected coming from IP address: 65.49.2.17

I just realized that I messed up when doing the update as I should have done this: "Set your Browser on the "Forum Settings" page and don't close this window You need it later without logging in again!!!"
As it said in the guidelines, but somehow I missed it and now I don't really know what to do. Do you think you can help me?

Thanks!
Martin

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Reply #12 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:57pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

Maybe you're already logged in... Can you get to this link directly?

http://www.liguetotal.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/AdminIndex.pl?action=newsettings;page=ma...

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Reply #13 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 11:08pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

I tried but it asks me for my password again and when I do, it sends me back to my forum, not the Admin panel Sad

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Reply #14 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 11:12pm

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Re: Help! Can't enter to the Admin panel after 2.5 up

Okay, sorry to say this then, but it might be best if you start the process all over again - it shouldn't take long and will hopefully work out okay this time. I think that's actually going to be the easiest thing to do...

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