Question Public users (guests) cannot view forums

Upon paycheck I was planning on donating money to kunena(and continuing to do so often).

This is a great component. But where is the support! Those of us with bugs need help!!??

Well... this first question that comes to mind is: Do you have any other components installed that affect user privacy settings that would affect what posts are rendered to public vs registered users?
Additionally, how are each of your individual categories configured? You can have certain categories set to private.
We have a variety of categories... some that are public, some set to registered and a few set to special for author level users to keep certain categories closed to the general public...

Also, are you clearing your cache between changing settings?

P.S. As a general rule, you should always include your Report Configuration Settings. You can copy and paste this from your admin backend for Kunena.

No other components other than Jomsocial.

All of the categories are set to public.

Yes, I clear my cache after every change I make.

I don't know what is wrong, but for some reason only registered users can view the forum..

The weird thing is that if they click a post in the jomsocial recent activities, they can view that post.



Also, the module has not changed what forums it displays in 3 days(it's showing the same exact replies even thought there has been replies since then).

uhg what am I doing wrong!?!?!?!?

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Kunena version detailled: Installed version: 1.7.0 | Build: 5135 | Version name: Tale | Kunena detailled configuration:

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[th]Kunena config settings:[/th]

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Third-party components: Jomsocial 2.2.4

Third-party SEF components: None

Plugins: System - Mootools Upgrade: Disabled | System - Mootools12: Disabled | Kunena Search 1.6.4

Modules: Kunena Latest 1.7.0

I just migrated my forum from j1.5 to 1.7 (copy-paste database) and just found out that there need to be set access rights for each forum-category now. When just copy-paste, those rights are all disabled, so I got the message:

There are no categories in the section!

After opening each category and set access to 'level' and 'public' they show again.

I had loads of categories so I used this script to set all categories to 'public'

Mine according to the backend is already public.

Okay, so if it is set to "access type - user groups" and public it wont work.

it has to be set to "access level" public.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction carsten888!