Administration Page/Portlet is disabled accidentally, how to

[Benson Fung]

Hi all,

I logged in as admin role. And I just tried to setup the security of Administration portlet. I unchecked the view option. However, I believed I made a serious mistake becasue the administration page never appear in the admin user screen.

Please help me recover back to the admin account.


Thanks for your help
Benson

[vivek_saini07]

you can make changes in default-object.xml and restart the server.

[Benson Fung]

Hi Vivek,

thanks for your suggestions. However, can you be more specific? As I wrongly unchecked the admin role view option for the Admin portlet, that's why the admin portlet disappear under the admin account. Please advice how to make changes to the default-object.xml so that it will revert back to the original stage.


Thanks
Benson

[vivek_saini07]

hi

default-object.xml is present in portal-core-sar/conf/data folder.
Find for

<portal-name>admin</portal-name>

in it and change it from

<deployment>
 <parent-ref/>
 <if-exists>keep</if-exists>
 <portal>
 <portal-name>admin</portal-name>

to

<deployment>
 <parent-ref/>
 <if-exists>overwrite</if-exists>
 <portal>
 <portal-name>admin</portal-name>

and restart the server. It will come back to original state.

[Benson Fung]

Hi Vivek,

There is no such file at portal-core-sar/conf/data folder. But there is such file at jboss-portal.sar/conf/data folder.

Anyway, I tried to modify the file according to your suggestion. It doesn't work unfortunately. I think the reason is I unchecked the view permission of the admin portlet for admin role.

Please help.

[vivek_saini07]

hi
You are at right default-object.xml file. I gave you path in source code, you are checking it in binaries. Anyway we are at same file now.

Now do one more thing.

1. go to the same file let it be "overwrite" from "keep"
2. Find following in default-object.xml

<window>
 <window-name>AdminPortletWindow</window-name>
 <instance-ref>AdminPortletInstance</instance-ref>
 <region>center</region>
 <height>0</height>

change it to

<window>
 <window-name>AdminPortletWindow</window-name>
 <instance-ref>AdminPortletInstance1</instance-ref>
 <region>center</region>
 <height>0</height>

3. now go to portal-admin.sar/portal-admin.war/WEB-INF/portlet-instances.xml
4. find for following in it.

<instance-id>AdminPortletInstance</instance-id>
 <portlet-ref>AdminPortlet</portlet-ref>
 <security-constraint>
 <policy-permission>

and change it to

<instance-id>AdminPortletInstance1</instance-id>
 <portlet-ref>AdminPortlet</portlet-ref>
 <security-constraint>
 <policy-permission>

5. Restart the server

Basically now we are changing AdminPortletInstance to AdminPortletInstance1

[Benson Fung]

Hi Vivek,

Still doesn't work unfortunately. I think I have to reset the hsqldb database table data. Please advice how to clear all the database table data.


thanks
Benson

[Peter Johnson]

Please advice how to clear all the database table data.

Delete the directory server/xxx/data