[SOLVED] Folder access problem "No path defined yet. Please define then apply setting..."

Check server error log and see if there's any fatal errors present. It's possible your server may have fopen, fwrite, and/or fclose disabled. Aside from that I don't know what more to suggest beyond contacting your host as we can't help with server configuration issues.

I looked at the php settings, and fopen is enabled. I have, in the meantime, contacted the server provider and awaiting a reply.

I have also looked at the error log, and this is what I found that may possibly be related to the issue. The directory that CBSubs is supposed to password protect contains a mediawiki, by the way:

(below is just a selection, path information is removed)
When trying with a test directory within the Joomla directory, I get this:

But this latter does not show in the error log when trying to log in with user "Test" on the password protected directory outside Joomla.

Hello,

I have received a response from the server provider. He pointed out something I overlooked:

CBSubs is looking for htpasswd using the absolute path of the *old* server.

So clearly, there is a setting that I have overlooked. But I don't know where to find it.

* In "folder access" on CBSubs plans, the absolute path is set correctly (only for two plans so far, and it's only those plans that I have tried using on the Test user)

* In htaccess, the path set to htpasswd is also set correctly as AuthUserFile

* In Joomla's Global Configuration, I corrected the path foor both logs and tmp (although I don't think that would make a difference since the password-protected directory is outside Joomla anyway)

* I can't find any settings in CB in general where I need to provide an absolute path.

The only thing I can think of is that the old absolute path is set in some settings file somewhere?

If you directly copy and pasted the htaccess file from your old server to the new then you need to edit the htaccess file and correct the path to the htpasswd file. CBSubs does not update this (it doesn't touch the htaccess file unless it doesn't exist at all). The absolute path is not stored in Joomla, CB, or CBSubs. The folder path is specified only within your plans. You should be able to delete the htaccess file and login with a user subscribed to the plan for it to generate it again then verify if it's working correctly.

Thanks for that suggestion, that did the trick!

I deleted the htaccess file, and CBSubs recreated it. Then I re-uploaded my own htaccess file over it (which points to a specific 401 html document that the standard htaccess file doesn't point to) and it still works.

I subscribed a test user to a plan, and was able to login to the password-protected maps. I unsubscribed the user, and the access was also removed. I resubscribed, and the access was back.

The only thing remaining now is the "no path defined yet" message in the "folder access" settings of CBSubs for each plan in the backend. It works now, despite that message, but I don't know if that could still cause issues? It's clearly not a case of a wrong path or lack of php writing access issues, so I don't know what else could trigger the message.

The only thing remaining now is the "no path defined yet" message in the "folder access" settings of CBSubs for each plan in the backend. It works now, despite that message, but I don't know if that could still cause issues? It's clearly not a case of a wrong path or lack of php writing access issues, so I don't know what else could trigger the message.

The read access check is just having a hard time determining if the folder is readable. If everything is working fine it's save to ignore that check.