Question Permission issue: "Warning You cannot access the private section of this site"

Jumpstart123 wrote: Emailed.

18 minutes later, your email has not yet arrived, sorry.

I emailed the address on the team page. Ill try it with my personal email.

I have sent you a message to the email address used in connection with your account at www.kunena.org . With luck you should have received it by now.

Alright everyone we have found a solution for this. At least in this case.

First off this IS a joomla issue and is not a kunena issue.

Alright so here's what the deal is.

I went through with the wonderful help from sozzled for an hour or so trying to figure out what the issue was. We went through all the settings as discussed in another post on this forum. We checked the settings compared to a brand new joomla install with only kunena installed and everything working.

Finally we found a solution. If the above solutions do not work. All hope is not lost.

Heres what you need to check as well.

Log into your myphpadmin account.

Go into the assets sql database.

Make sure that ALL parent_id's are set to 1 or more EXCEPT the root.

This fixed my issue of not being able to login to Joomla.

Good luck to everyone with this issue.

I have the same problems after upgrading to Joomla 2.5.18. This problem has also been reported on the Joomla support forum for 3.2.2

I checked my db as suggested and all are set to 1 or more except the root which is 0

Still no solution yet.

You mention another post in yours above - can you provide a URL please?

Some people may not have something broken in the Joomla _assets table (like jimrowland) but the cause of the problem is still the same.

The problem occurs if you have not logged into Joomla or if you cannot login to Joomla. In The case of JumpStart123, he was unable to login to his site except for using his super administrator account. When we fixed the Joomla _assets table (as he described it) he was able to login to his site (and the message "Warning You cannot access the private section of this site" went away).

This is not a Kunena problem. The cause of this problem is a Joomla issue.

For your information, I discussed this issue with Jon (via Skype) and it took us 2 hours to figure out the cause and the solution. We appreciate the Jon's donation of money for the time I spent working through this issue with him.

The solution given in the Joomla forum (from Elin Waring) works for those people who have a corrupted _assets table. This kind of corruption occurs in a minority of cases.

The true cause of the message "Warning You cannot access the private section of this site" is that you cannot login to your website (after entering a valid username/password combination). To determine why you cannot login may take time to investigate what is going on. One possible reason why you cannot login is because the _assets table has something wrong with it. There are other reasons, too.