I' m sure I' m overlooking something but...

Can a guest post a message? how do I enable this?
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you enable it in the forum configuration interface -> assign a permission (post/reply etc.) to Guest

yeah, I went through and set all the forums guest to post and reply but its denying my as a guest

Try it here: http://demo.aspplayground.net/

The " Test Forum" has post/reply permission set for guest. Check the configuration there with your own.

yes yours works fine, mine is doing something weird. sometimes it will say there are no posts in this forum but there are. and when you add a post when it refreshes all the post show up? any ideas?

Is this the same problem you described in your first message?

I think it is the forum filter you specified that makes all messages disappear. For example, if you make the forum to show poll only by default, you won' t see any message that are not poll.

Did you check out the demo' s forum configuration?

yes I did try it in the test forum you have and it worked fine. Is that the only place permissions are being set?

Is that the only place permissions are being set?

Yes, in terms of forum' s display setting.

ok, thanks I was going to recopy the original asp pages to a server to see if it was something I did while changing the layout.

hey Samual thanks for your patience, well now I blew it I went and changed the homepage url in admin to reflect an older version of the forum that was on another server and I' m getting a cannot find server. and of course I disabled the original first so that one won' t work either. ( when I mess up I do a fine job) What do you think the best way to start fresh would be, Can I just copy the whole ASP folder contents again? let me know., I did a lot of custom color and graphic work so I' d hate to lose a weeks work, but it needs to work, ha ha
thanks
t

The best way to recover the core configuration is by deleting the record in the pgd_config table (one row only), and refresh the cache by loading the ini.asp page.

Ok, follow my instructions here precisely (read everything I write below first):

1) if you want to start from scratch (if you did mess up real nicely), just delete the db by running the full installation SQL script again, and load a fresh copy of the ASP files onto your site.

2) if you did not modify your database in anyway, just load a fresh copy of the ASP files. You can run this " delete pgd_config" query against your database first and then load ini.asp by going to http://<your final and real forum URL>/ini.asp

3) before doing anything, make sure you backup a copy of the files you modified. Graphics work will not be lost, right? so all you have to worry about are the additional logics you implemented into the forum.

great, thanks I promise to get this up and finished so I don' t bug ya. here it goes wish me luck.
t

ok, well, I copied all the asp pages and its redirecting me to ini.asp with an error saying login failed for user toby (which is me) but I never get to the first screen..I' m having a bad day.

This is because you didn' t supply the database information in masterinclude.asp.

For all errors in ini.asp:
http://www.aspplayground.net/forum/m_375477/tm.htm

I told you it was a bad day... ok thanks