Hi There!
I spoke with Steve Burge the other day before signing up. Seems I can't get thehelp needed in the joomla.org forum any longer. Caqn't even access their webpage. keep getting a 406 error.

Anyway...this is MY problem, and I have been around Joomla! now for a few years and love it! Currently using the 2.5.4 version on Windows XP. I can't sem to access my control panel to Login to the backend of the adminstrator's site. even though my website is up perfectly...
[url]
http://crowleyheritagecenter.com/
[/url]

Take a look at the back end when you add adminstrator on after my website name.. you will get a blank page and no login or password form visible... This has never happend to me before and I have several sites up..

[url]
http://crowleyheritagecenter.com/administrator/
[/url]

Plus before THAT happened.. this was going on as I tried to access an artilce to work on as well:

Let me know..
"Joomla" John in Colorado!

Hi John, welcome to OSTraining! :-D

First before doing anything with your site, could you please upgrade your site to Joomla 2.5.6?

If this was me troubleshooting, I'd go into my administrator file, and check to see all the extensions that are related with admin, then disable one at a time in extension manager, to see if the site works afterwards.

Also are you using the editor-xtd plug-in? This might be an editor issue. Which editor are you using?

Also what code is on line 459?

More information the better. :-)

Hi and welcome, John!

It sounds like it's related to the following bug:
joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker...racker_item_id=28354

If so, once your cookie clears you'll be able to get in. Do you remember what your "Session Lifetime" is set to in your global configuration?

If you really need to get in right away, then make a backup of administrator/includes/helper.php and change:to:
Hopefully that should fix things for you.

Kind regards,
Nick

Hi Tess/Nick:
Thanks for the warm welcome to OS Training! Appreciate it. After reading your suggestion, Tessa I could not upgrade to Joomla! 2.5.6 since I could NOT login to the older version.. Which gave me an idea. I went into my hosting site (FatCOW) and through their SimpleScripts, downloaded the the most updated version (2.5.6) to a subdirectory folder (joomla). Once I did that I changed my config.php file to mesh with the my SQL folder in my PHP Admin. That done I went to login and came away with the following error:

Now after doing a little "Google" research I thought I found how to fix it.. BUT when I checked my PHP Admin.. I have no _plugins file... VERY strange.. I have enclosed two photos of the site login and the pic detailing the left hand side of my MySQL DB

Let me know how I can go about making that file.. Not very adept with PHP... and don't want to mess this up.. Site is currently down for the time being.. UGGHH

Thanks for any help you guus can offer me..

Hi John,

Was this site upgraded from 1.5? or moved to a folder that used to have a 1.5 installation?

The reason you can't find a _plugin table in your data base is that Joomla 2.5 doesn't use one, but 1.5 did use one. I attached a screenshot of each and you can see it does not exist in the 2.5 screenshot. So that's not you're problem.

If this was an upgraded site and your admin page went blank, try renameing the entire administrator directory so it won't be used, and replacing it with an administrator directory from a clean Joomla install.

See if that will let you log in, and then you can check out the other error message.

This person seem to have found an answer to this, not sure it applies to you, but we can't deal with that one until you get your admin fixed.

www.myblogplanner.com/blog/fatal-error-c...oomlahtmleditor-php/

Let us know if this works at all. I had this same problem with another student just a few days ago and this is how we solved it. Here's hoping it works for you too:

Cheers,
Ed

Hey Ed..

This was in a 1.5 template... BUT I did NOT migrate the site to 2.5.. I did this site transfer manually. set a 2.5.6 fresh install. copy the file (html coding) to a new file within the 2.5.6 of the same name and saved it.. I know it took me awhile but I the template I previously had it on in 1.5 was not 2.5 compatible.. thus I had to find a 2.5 compatible and start from the scratch.. (sigh -- LOL)...

Anyway.. I tried that suggesstion you gave me for the adminstrator folder.. and went to the page to add that code too.. Not working for me :( Now what?? I really have NEVER encountered this problem with a 2.5 site and I have done three already..

LMK your thoughts...

Don't feel bad. I've done a lot more than that and not seen this exact problem either. Let's recap a little and see if we can figure out where it went sideways.

1. You created a completely new site in Joomla 2.5
2. You installed all new plugins of the right version in the new install.

At that point you should have had a completely functional Joomla 2.5 site. Correct?

3. You uploaded a template and got the site working with the new template. And at this time you still had working site? Correct?

I'm a bit confused on this point:
If this was a new installation, what is it that you moved?
Was all the data previously in a 1.5 site and you moved it to this site?
What exactly did you copy?
Or did you enter all new data?

This is also confusing:
Which database are you trying to connect to?

Sorry for all the questions, but we came in the middle of the problem. I suspect that there was an error in procedure, but I don't know what you've done or not done.

When you said you wanted to add the plugin table that's what made me suspect there was a problem in the upgrade procedure, not necessarily a problem with Joomla. Can you help get us on track?

Thanks,
Ed

Good Morning Ed!
I will go through your message and recap for you step-by-step..
1. Yes I did create a completely new Joomla! 2.5 site with information from the old site. (The information from the old site, I copied the coding (HTML) from the files - for Example: "About Us" in 1.5 to a new "About Us" in 2.5 site.
In addition I created a NEW db in the WAMP server environment and that was for the new 2.5 files. (So as not to be confused to transfering my old 1.5 MySQL files over - I wanted to start fresh).

This was ALL done on my WAMP server..(localhost) I always do it first this way to be sure I have a fully functioning site before I transfer it to hosting company (FatCOW) to go live.

When I moved the site over to FatCow. I created a db in FatCow then imported the MySQL files from my WAMP server. I then had to change some areas in the config.php files such as the logs path, temp path as well as the $host, $user and $dbname to get a connection (i've done all this before and watched videos on how this is done). Had no problem mking the connection after the changes.

2. I haven't been able to install the plugins I want (since I can't login the backend). I ALWAYS do check to be sure they are compatible with the website (in this case 2.5 version of Joomla!). I am just so frustrated.. with this error that keeps popping up:

Hi John,
The error likely means that you disabled the Authentication - Joomla.

Check out step #3 of the following tutorial and set the publish status to 1 rather than 0:
www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/disable-a-joomla-plugin/

Kind regards,
Nick