App Engine Dev server error: "Current logged in user ... is not authorized to view this page."

Alex Kerr

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Nov 30, 2015, 3:20:34 PM11/30/15

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Hi,

When I try to access a PHP or HTML file from my project in my local browser, when running the dev server (PHP SDK), I just get the message "Current logged in user [my email address] is not authorized to view this page.". I get this message regardless of whether I am logged into the correct google account or not. If I upload to App Engine, it works fine if I am logged in, or presents the standard Google login page then works fine when I login.

I do have "login: admin" set for HTML and PHP files for my app.yaml, but this should not stop things working locally...

Any ideas please?

Many thanks,

Alex

Alex Martelli

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Nov 30, 2015, 3:35:04 PM11/30/15

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login: admin does, and should, block access unless you're logged in *as admin* in the fake login page dev_appserver presents. Try it e.g on a Chrome incognito window, and make sure to check the checkbox to "login as admin" -- if it works, then just clear cookies to do the same from normal non-incognito windows.

Alex

Any ideas please?

Many thanks,
Alex

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Alex Kerr

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Nov 30, 2015, 3:41:13 PM11/30/15

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Ah that works fine once I cleared cookies, thanks. I wasn't getting any login just the error message...

Thank you.

Alex Martelli

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Nov 30, 2015, 4:05:27 PM11/30/15

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Alex Kerr <ajc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ah that works fine once I cleared cookies, thanks. I wasn't getting any login just the error message...
Thank you.

You're welcome! Your cookies were telling dev_appserver that you were fake-logged-in with a non-admin fake userid, so it correctly denied you access to `login: admin` URLs.

Alex

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