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Secure Admin plugin causes “You do not have permission….” error

• MatthewHSE

  Member

  @matthewhse

  9 years, 9 months ago

  I’m running WordPress 2.0.5 and have an SSL certificate available. I installed the Secure Admin plugin this morning, visited my admin, activated the plugin, and ran into a brick wall.

  Although I can login to the admin now (which *is* using the SSL certificate), any time I try to navigate away from the dashboard, such as to view my profile, add a post, etc., I get the following error message:

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  You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
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  The HTTP response code is 200, not 302, so it looks like there’s some sort of WordPress authentication issue.

  The user I’m logged in as IS an administrator (actually there *is* only one user) so that wouldn’t seem to be the problem.

  All my file permissions are set to 644. I tried setting the admin file permissions to 755 but that didn’t help anything so I bumped them back down.

  This issue seems to be something that other people have run into, but I haven’t seen a solution. I like the idea of using this plugin instead of the other SSL-on-Admin ideas that I’ve seen posted around, but obviously I can’t use it if I can’t make it work! 😉

• vkaryl

  Member

  @vkaryl

  9 years, 9 months ago

  Hi MatthewHSE – have you installed the plugin from Mark Jaquith which seems to mitigate some of the wonkinesses found in 2.0.5? A long thread regarding things it helps can be found here: http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/10/28/some-wordpress-205-users-reporting-server-500-error/#comment-5826

  A link to download the plugin is available from that thread as well I believe. I don’t know that your specific issue is “curable” with Mark’s plugin, but it can’t hurt to install it.

  HarisTV

  Member

  @haristv

  9 years, 9 months ago

  I’ve just suffered from the same symptoms! 🙁

  Any solution to this?

  HarisTV

  Member

  @haristv

  9 years, 9 months ago

  I just tried applying the plugin that vkaryl suggeted

  It does nothing to resolve this issue…

  HarisTV

  Member

  @haristv

  9 years, 9 months ago

  ….I’ve just realised the secure-admin plugin is for WordPress 2.1-alpha, so I assume 2.0.x would not work…

  From http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/03/08/secure-blogging :

  …we’ve made the code we’re using to do this available as a WordPress plugin. All you need is a SSL certificate and WordPress 2.1-alpha…

  HarisTV

  Member

  @haristv

  9 years, 8 months ago

  It turns out that it’s a problem with the plugin itself.

  I debugged the code and fixed the problem:
  http://haris.tv/2007/01/11/wordpress-ssl-plugin-secure-admin-patched-and-working