directory access forbidden

[jeremy]

When I try to click on "manage themes" under "settings" I get an error
message which says "directory access is forbidden." Can anyone help
me troubleshoot this? It's a 403 error message

[Jeremy Boggs]

Do you get a 403 on any other parts of your admin? Since you can see
the settings button, it seems you're already a 'super' user in the
system, which means you should have access to the themes. If you
haven't already, turn on Display Errors and navigation back to the
themes admin panel. Instructions for retrieving error messages are
detailed in our Documentation here:

http://omeka.org/codex/Retrieving_error_messages

Just do "Display Error Messages" for now. This should give you a more
verbose error message in your browser. Paste that message here and
we'll try to debug this further.

Best,
Jeremy

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[jeremy]

Hi, Jeremy.

I managed to get into the themes section by logging in under admin/
index.php. So it's working now. But I have a few more issues now.
I'm trying to use one of my objects as a "featured object" but nothing
happens even after I check the object as "public" and "featured".

Thanks for getting back to me!

From the other jeremy

[Jeremy Boggs]

When you say "nothing happens," what do you mean? Do you get a blank
screen after saving the item? Do you stay on the items/edit form, but
the checkboxes dont' stay checked? Or do the checkboxes stay checked
but that item doesn't appear on your public theme as public or
featured? Or something else? Turning on Display Errors will probably
help us debug this issue too, so do that before trying to save the
item again. If you have a public URL for your site, could you could
share with us? That might help us answer some of your questions, too.

As for the admin logging in, it sounds to me like it might be a issue
with .htaccess or url rewriting. There are several possiblities:

1) You don't have mod_rewrite on your server. Check with your system
admin or host to confirm this.
2) You do have mod_rewrite, but don't have an .htaccess file in your
'admin' directory. If this is the case, be sure to upload
the .htaccess file that comes with the zip of Omeka.
3) You do have mod_rewrite, and do have an .htaccess file in your
'admin' directory. If this is the case, I suspect you have
another .htaccess file somewhere else on your server that is
overriding the rules in the admin one. To, add RewriteBase /admin/ to
your admin's .htaccess file, right after the "RewriteEngine on" line.

Let us know if this helps!

Jeremy B.

[jeremy]

Hi, Jeremy

My site is:

gadgetlibrary.org

The checkboxes stay checked
but the item doesn't appear as featured.

I will turn on display errors and see what I come up with
Thanks!

[jeremy]

Also I enabled error message retrieval, but have thus far encountered
no error messages.