I see this topic is closed. But I have more data. If you'd like me to open a new one, I can do that.
I have been working with a local version of Coppermine to test things out and all has been fine. Started with 1.4.2. But suddenly when I came back to it, I got this error. Very frustrating until I entered .../coppermine/login.php and found that if I log in, all was well again.
So, the error only occurs when a user is logged out.
Since my gallery is only my LAN, i can't easily provide you access to the gallery. And I don't want to try and break my public gallery so you can see the bug. Apparently, I have flummexed the config parameters in such a way that logged out users can't function. Don't want to do that to my public gallery, of course.
So, I have backed up my database, and the source of the page that gives the error and zipped them up for your perusal.
BTW, I just upgraded - carefully - to 1.4.3 on this gallery, and did version check, and deleted all stale files, so this is a copesetic 1.4.3 install that fails.
If there's more that I can do, let me know. At this point since I have a backup of the database, and I know how to break back in with coppermine/login.php I"m going to twiddle the config settings until I make it go away and I'll report on what I find. Looks like something is amiss in config/ theme land. BTW, all themes are unmodified and the only plugin is my "unwanted meta" plugin, which does not modify configs or themes.
cheers,
ww
added after some testing: I find that the problem is that user mode is messed up. Admin mode works fine, which is why I can log in as administrator. I have tried various combinations of default themes and user themes. The theme dropdown is enabled. Combinations of classic and igames don't work. On the other board, of course igames does work in usermode and admin mode. Oh, btw, I have rebooted the server and restarted Apache... no change. Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) PHP/4.4.0 Server at galepc Port 80 MySQL 4.1.14-nt