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Admin Access on Diasbled Forum Bug?
I've been unable to log on to my disabled forums. From the admin panel I selected Setup-> EnableForum and selected the admin only option. When I click Login from the admin panel , which is admin login, I get the message my forums are disabled. I don't use cookies (Cross Site Scripting scares me as admin) and wondered if that had anything to do with it. I enabled the forums, logged on with cookies, disabled the forums and only then was I able to logon as admin. Is this a big or am I doing something wrong. Do you have to have cookies on to log on as admin when the forums are disabled?
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Re: [Eric P] Admin Access on Diasbled Forum Bug? In reply to
Hi Eric,

In order to use the Admin-enabled disabled forum feature, you must log in to Gossamer Forum _first_, then disable it in the admin panel. The feature simply allows already-logged in administrators to continue to use the forum, and disables access for anyone else. You don't need cookies to be enabled, but it will probably be easiest to do this with two browser windows.

Jason Rhinelander
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