Login requests after upgrading

[drizzt99]

Hi,
I've upgraded VM to 2.0.2 from 2.0.1.
For some reason, it now asks me to login when I want to see inside the categories on front end.
Here's a link:
http://gollydesign.co.il/test/products.html
Try to enter a category and see what happens.
Any idea why this happens?

Added later:
Now I notice that even after I login and try to watch the products, I get  blank screen on the product page itself.

[John2400]

It looks like no one can enter your shop unless they are registered -

No public access --  all users must have a login - this might be in joomla setting.

Look in users User settings and see if public is ticked?

Try see if you can see an article in joomla - just as a test.

[drizzt99]

Hi,
Thanks for the help.
You can enter the shop and see the categories (http://gollydesign.co.il/test/products.html).
It happens only when you click on a category.  Anyway, I can view articles as a guest.
And as I added - when I tried to login, I was able to see inside the categories, but single product view gave me a blank page (with all products).

[John2400]

drizzt99

Make sure that you do not have a shopper group against products - "leave that blank"

You are saying that you can login - and maybe as a test login you are not a certain shopper group.

Find one product and check that first.

**? added later -- Did you update joomla too as there has been some issues with users there -- ? 

[drizzt99]

Make sure that you do not have a shopper group against products - "leave that blank"

What do you mean by that? All I did was upgrade. The site works fine with V2.0.1 on the non-test site: http://gollydesign.co.il/products.html
It happened after the upgrade...

You are saying that you can login - and maybe as a test login you are not a certain shopper group

I login as admin.

Find one product and check that first.

I tried to get into all of them - same result.

[drizzt99]

Ok, I'll try to re-install and let you know if it happens again.
One thing to make sure - VM2.0.1 doesn't work with J2.5, is that right?

[John2400]

There has been some issues with Joomla users over the past week.

I'm wondering if you updated joomla too. They were having issues with joomla users being locked out -. Or being unable to craete users.

maybe not a VM thing - Now I hear that Joomla might be doing an upgrade "Might " tomorrow with a large user issue -

* so Can you wait?

VM is now up to version 2.0.3 'H version - these are just test versions.

* user groupos - against products in the back end - not the front - check just one product and makes sure that - just one product has no user groups - as a test.

[drizzt99]

Yea, I'll wait for it.
You are right - I've upgraded to J2.5.  This is why I wanted to reinstall now.
I'm now installing VM2.0.2 on the J1.7 to see if it works. Then I'll wait for the new 2.5 update I guess...
Regarding 2.0.3 - when I download from the main website, I get 2.0.2.  So officially, 2.0.2 is the stable one, right? I should go with that for a livesite, correct?

[John2400]

Lots have small similar issues -

I hope Joomla fix the user issues and I hope it works for you as well as others -

I can't guarantee that they will update tomorrow  -but they "joomla"need to fix a major User bug.

Here's hopeing .

You can have a look at the joomla forums - and see what others are doing .

thanks

[drizzt99]

Ok,
it is indeed a Joomla issue.
I just installed VM 2.0.2 and I can get inside a category.
When I try to view a product I get this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method shopFunctionsF::PdfIcon() in /home/golly/public_html/test/templates/theme737/html/com_virtuemart/productdetails/default.php on line 55
I guess it means there's a difference in the versions - is that right? So I need to redo the template?

[John2400]

Yep just use a default template and test- see how you go .

the from there - test every thing and get a new updated template -

I actually liked your site and set out.

[drizzt99]

k, thanks
I hope that in the next versions I won't have to do it all over again

[John2400]

saw two possible solutions try these :

http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=99087.new#new

and joomla was just updated 2.5.4

let us know how you went .

[drizzt99]

I've upgraded to 2.5.4 now and it shows the login screen again when I try to enter a category.
Now I've found the problem. I enter the shop via a menu item called: "products".
For some reason, when I enter the categories/products, it changes the menu item to "promos".  I
So my shop address is:
http://gollydesign.co.il/test/products.html
And my products/categories address is like that:
http://gollydesign.co.il/test/promos/XXX
(where XXX is a category/product suffix to the URI).

I have no idea why it is like that.  Is there some place to change "joomla menu item for shop" or something? Maybe something to do with the SEF feature?

[John2400]

drizzt99,

It's like you have two shops in one and both are linking
* one in the public folder
* one in the test folder

* both linked to the same data base and then in menus you have linked both together ?

* you also have templates showing up in different places -

* I can't really figure out how you set this up.

Looks like you set the shop up in one folder and there is a VM shop there and then in 'Test' you repeated the same thing and linked menus.