Unable to add new menu item in Main Menu

[Max Kaar]

Posted this a while back on the mamboserver.com forums, but never got a working solution. Suggestions are welcome... --max

I just installed 4.5.1.0.4 as a local install and I'm having a couple of wierd problems that I haven't seen on previous installs.

When I try add a new item to the Main Menu in Menu Manager, it doesn't bring up the usual screen where I can specify what I'm adding. Rather, I get a "blank" screen with the Admin menu headers and /com_menus/new in the status bar, and a Cancel button.

Any thoughts?

--max

Code:
System Information
PHP built On: Darwin 7.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.3.0: Fri Mar 5 14:22:55 PST 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.3.15.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh
Database Version: 4.0.18-standard
PHP Version: 4.3.4
Web Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Darwin) PHP/4.3.4
WebServer to PHP interface: apache
Mambo Open Source Version: 4.5 Stable-1.0.4 [Miller] 23/03/2004 21:54 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Relevent PHP Settings: Safe Mode: OFF
Open basedir: none
Display Errors: OFF
Short Open Tags: ON
File Uploads: ON
Magic Quotes: OFF
Register Globals: OFF
Output Buffering: OFF
Session save path: /tmp
Session auto start: 0
XML enabled: Yes
Zlib enabled: Yes
Disabled Functions: none
WYSIWYG Editor: htmlarea2

Configuration File: <?php
$mosConfig_editor = 'htmlarea2';
$mosConfig_offline = '0';
$mosConfig_host = 'xxxxxx'
$mosConfig_user = 'xxxxxx'
$mosConfig_password = 'xxxxxx'
$mosConfig_db = 'xxxxxx'
$mosConfig_dbprefix = 'mos_';
$mosConfig_lang = 'english';
$mosConfig_absolute_path = '/Library/WebServer/Documents';
$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://localhost';
$mosConfig_sitename = ':: imax ::';
$mosConfig_shownoauth = '0';
$mosConfig_emailpass = '1';
$mosConfig_offline_message = 'This site is down for maintenance.
Please check back again soon.';
$mosConfig_error_message = 'This site is temporarily unavailable.
Please notify the System Administrator';
$mosConfig_UseBanner = '1';
$mosConfig_lifetime = '900';
$mosConfig_MetaDesc = 'Mambo Open Source - the dynamic portal engine and content management system';
$mosConfig_MetaKeys = 'mambo, mambo open source, Mambo, Mambo Open Source';
$mosConfig_debug = '0';
$mosConfig_locale = 'en_GB';
$mosConfig_offset = '0';
$mosConfig_hideAuthor = '0';
$mosConfig_hideCreateDate = '0';
$mosConfig_hideModifyDate = '0';
$mosConfig_hidePdf = '0';
$mosConfig_hidePrint = '0';
$mosConfig_hideEmail = '0';
$mosConfig_enable_log_items = '0';
$mosConfig_enable_log_searches = '0';
$mosConfig_sef = '0';
$mosConfig_vote = '0';
$mosConfig_gzip = '1';
$mosConfig_multipage_toc = '0';
$mosConfig_allowUserRegistration = '1';
$mosConfig_error_reporting = '-1';
$mosConfig_link_titles = '0';
setlocale (LC_TIME, $mosConfig_locale);
?>


I've gone back and copied over the entire Mambo folder in case there might have been missing files. I've also set rights on all folders and files to 777 to rule out any rights issues. Still having the same problems.

Any suggestions? I'm thinking I need to go and find a previous version of Mambo in case the problem is with the 1.0.4 distribution.

--max



Ok, so there's definitely something screwy and it's probably in either PHP or Apache, but can't find it. I didn't muck about the settings for PHP after installing it, so should be mostly defaults in there. I've had it running on the same machine before but had to wipe the drive and I'm now getting back into setting it up.

--max



As I'm just using it as a test box and just got started with it, I blew away the 1.0.4 install, installed 1.0.5 from scratch, dropped the mambo database and rebuilt it - still the same. No change with the WYSIWYG editor either. The editor works, I can create content items. The only function that doesn't work is adding an item to the main menu.

[mamboguy.com]

Try the latest 1.0.7 version.

[Max Kaar]

Nah, still the same. I don't think it's Mambo, I think it's a php setting or option somewhere...

If anyone has any suggestions on what to check, I'm open for suggestions...

--max

[nate]

i dont know if you gave up with this yet... it was posted a while ago but i found this when searching for an answer to a different question

anyways i had the EXACT same problem... during setup mambo checked to make sure certain folders had chmod of 777 (writeable) but it only checked the origonal folder... if you didnt go through and change all of the files INSIDE that folder, although the CHMOD test would pass, the system wouldnt work properly

as soon as i chmodded all of the files in those folders (flashfxp has a recursive chmod option) it worked flawlessly

Hi,

I had the same problem. All "lists" are empty.

It just was a browser problem. Changed from Mozilla to IE, then it worked.

[nate]

Originally Posted by additem

Hi,

I had the same problem. All "lists" are empty.

It just was a browser problem. Changed from Mozilla to IE, then it worked.

my mambo site works fine with firefox .9

Hi guys,

I just want you guys to try this out.

goto your cache/ folder and remove all the cache files. try to log in back.

hoped this works!

cheers

I run into the same (or similar) problem with both Mambo 4.5.2 and Joomla 1.0.3. I checked the error log of the web server (/var/log/httpd/error_log) and noticed this kind of entries:

[client x.x.x.x] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 83 bytes) in /home/rantala/public_html/joomla/includes/domit/xml_domit_lite_parser.php on line 900, referer: http://www.haapakangas.net/joomla/ad...utype=mainmenu

It is surprising that adding a menu item causes the script to use more than 8MB of memory, but increasing "memory_limit" in "php.ini" from 8MB to 16MB solved the problem for me.

[osterkraft]

I had a similar problem. When trying to add a new menu item, Firefox promted me to save the file index2.php. I also had the memory warnings in the apache error log. When increasing the memory in php.ini to 16MB, everything worked fine!

Running Joomla 1.0.11.