I've recently set up a subdomain of mine on a VPS, installed Drupal 7.56, and managed to download the civicrm module but when I go to http://mysite.net/drupal-7.56/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/index.php
It give me this:
You don't have permission to access this page
I was logged in as the admin before I tried the install. Not sure if this is file permissions or what.
PHP 7.0 Drupal 7.56 CiviCRM 4.7.28
Thanks in advance, John
I faced this problem too and tried a lot of things to make it works, but failed.
Finally, I opened the file "index.php" in "http://(mysite)/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/index.php". I put the comments in line number 265th through 274th like this.
/*
// Check that user is logged in and has administrative permissions
// This is necessary because the script exposes the database settings in the form and these could be viewed by unauthorised users
if ((!function_exists('user_access')) || (!user_access('administer site configuration'))) {
$errorTitle = ts("You don't have permission to access this page");
$errorMsg = ts("The installer can only be run by a user with the permission to administer site configuration.");
errorDisplayPage($errorTitle, $errorMsg);
exit();
}
*/
Yeah. IT WORKS!!!.
Who use this way like me, DON'T for get to remove the comments after installation is completed.
The error is due to an incorrect base url of your Drupal installation.
Go to site/default and edit the file settings.php
Search for $base_url, and set it to the correct url of your site.
e.g. http://localhost/~YOUR-USER-NAME/SUBFOLDER-OF-YOUR-SITE
In my case, line 315 of settings.php looks like this:
$base_url = 'http://localhost/~alain/civitest'; // NO trailing slash!
on investigate the root cause of problem to identify the reason for condition "!user_access('administer site configuration')" getting true; it is, while checking for the user roles in "user.module", the global variable $user is assigned with values corresponding to anonymous user and that make the condition to true and returns the error message and exits.
May be we need to investigate further in "session.inc" to clearly identify root cause of the problem to find a straight forward solution for this.
I think this message is displayed because of some code that I added during the UK CiviCRM Sprint. This code automatically fills in the database details in the installer.
As this is disclosing sensitive information it checks to see if the user has sufficient permissions to access the installer page. It will fail if your user doesn't have permission to 'administer site configuration'. Please check that your user has the correct permissions.
The check will also fail if Drupal isn't bootstrapped correctly. Is Drupal installed and functioning correctly?
Windows installation (XAMPP) with Drupal 7.59 and civicrm 4.7.31
I tried first the trick of Muhammad Sadiq:
- it worked to avoid the error and to initiate the install
- but the permissions for the civicrm module were all blank (index.php?q=admin/people/permissions)
Second I tried the trick of pnbps with commenting line numbers 265th through 274th of "http://(mysite)/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/index.php"
- it worked to avoid the error and to initiate the install
- this time the default permissions for the civicrm module are ok
I have no idea how to solve the issue but I think commenting out the security check is not a great idea :-) As mentioned I encounter the same issue on a clean install of Drupal 7.56 on my local machine without creating any new user. When I then install CiviCRM 4.7.29 I get the permission error. @WilliamMortada: happy to provide details and test if you are happy to have a look.
My own local workaround is to install 4.7.27 and then immediately upgrade!
Checking with Tim here at the sprint: it looks like the test for the permission does not work if you install Drupal in subfolders? We are not sure if that is the issue but it might be worth a quick look.
Note: Revoke permission from both users after installation.
