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Hey gang!

New here and digging EE and LOVING the forums. You are some fast fast people!

So here’s my problem…I created a new template and in the access page made it viewable by members only. And I set up the redirect pulldown menu to throw me somewhere else appropriate.

But then I, even as Super Admin, can’t access that member’s page. I can access it as “Guest” when I click that option back on, but of course…that’s not what I want 😊

Any ideas?

Welcome to the forums, Charlie. What version and build of EE are you using? Could it be that you are simply not logged in to the front page? allow guest access to this template again, please, and add this to the footer or somewhere else appropriate:

{logged_in_member_group}

You should be getting “1” if you are a Superadmin; what are you getting?

Hey Ingmar!

That was fast, thanks!

I’m getting a “3” from that code you gave me.

“3” is the “Guest” group, so what you are seeing is expected behavior. You need to make sure to be logged in to the front page as well. Are you using cookies or session_ids for authentication? What are your settings for cookie domain and prefix?

Thanks again, Ingmar.

Honestly, I have no idea. I’m absolutely brand new at this and am busting through some very quick tutorials in order to get a site up in a bit of an emergency. So…I’m skipping over some important stuff, I’m sure. So I really thank you for your help again.

It sounds like you’re suggesting I add a log-in link to the footer (or somewhere), yes?

Oh, forgot to answer your question, Ingmar. I’m running EE 1.6.7.

Right now, the only login capability is that which allows me to log in to the Control Panel, so when you say “log in from the front page”...nope. I’m assuming there’s an EE tag which will allow that?

When you visit the backend of your site does it have a www or no www?  What about when you visit the front end?

Also, what are you session types for the control panel and “user” at:  Admin ›  System Preferences ›  Security and Session Preferences

-greg

Hey Greg,

Backend is without the WWW. Front end is with the WWW.

Control panel is “cookies and Id”

And User is “cookies”

okay, that’s the issue.

go to:  Admin ›  System Preferences ›  Cookie Settings

and set teh cookie domain to:  “.yoursite.com” note the ‘.’ before the domain name.  Then log out & log back in to the control panel & visit the test page you setup with Ingmar.

-greg

Worked like a charm! Thanks much, you two, for helping out a two-day old EE newb!

Excellent!  I’m glad you got squared away.  Don’t hesitate to start a new thread if anything else comes up!

-greg