Hi tamarosher,

What version of concrete5 are you using?

If you are using 5.7, I don't believe you can disable them once they are enabled.

Did you enable them on the Advanced Permissions page? If so, it provides a warning -
"Note: Once enabled, advanced permissions cannot be turned off.".
Dashboard > System & Settings > Permissions & Access > Advanced Permissions

I am using version 5.7.

I did not know what "Advanced Permissions" was. The statement of not being able to turn off Advanced Permissions is not a 'warning". Of course, I had no idea that it would cause my website to disappear, which is what "Advanced Permissions" is.

There's no information about what "Advanced Permissions" does to your website, and there's no warning about how horrible it is to click it.

The phrase, "Advanced Permissions". It should be changed to "Make Your Website Disappear", since that is what it is and does.

Clicking "Advanced Permissions" causes the website to instantly and permanently disappear. The website is not available online, it is not there, no one can see it or go to it. You could have gotten a domain name, purchased a theme, paid for fabulous web hosting, but - the website is not viewable online, due to "Advance Permissions".

Why would someone spend time and money making a website, only to find out that the website is not viewable online?

Please help. What can I do?

@tamarosher

I don't believe enabling Advanced Permissions on its own should cause a website to disappear. It should just enable granular controls for site permissions.

Your site is -http://howtobegifted.com , correct? If so, I can view it without issue.

I recommend clearing your concrete5 and browser cache if you are having issues displaying it.

Wonderful. I am glad to hear that you can see it. I suppose the problem is fixed, if you can see the 3 pages. I am relieved.

Thank you for your kindness to respond and help. I am so thankful for you.

......I understand being upset if something breaks, but do you honestly think this is what is supposed to happen when you enable Advanced Permissions?

If you want assistance here, my recommendation would be to be kind and give as much information as you can.

Advanced Permissions can't really be disabled once enabled, but they certainly shouldn't make your website disappear - you just get more options as far as locking down what users can do.

Can you let us know exactly what version of Concrete5 you're currently using, and if you made your theme yourself, or bought/downloaded it.

Also, if you can still get to your site dashboard (you might need to manually go to domain.com/dashboard), search for Debug Settings and make sure Display Errors is enabled, and enable "Show the debug error output" below that. This may point to the source of the problem.

If someone else can see my website, I am assuming the problem is fixed.

I currently make a website only every 3 or 4 years, and am involved with other things. While the details of dealing with "Advanced Permissions" may seem easy to you, it is frustrating for me, since my mind is on other things. I have been with Concrete5 for many years, and when I first started, one of the things I remember learning was, never touch "Advanced Permissions".

With my new, beautiful Newsprint theme, I was trying to discover the special features of the new version 5.7, and that is why I was going around clicking everything. That was my first website in several years, and my first website with version 5.7. I had forgotten about "Advanced Permissions".

There's no warning about "Advanced Permissions", and it is frustrating to the person who clicks it unknowingly.

I suggest the idea of making "Advanced Permissions" a 2-click process instead of a one-click. When someone clicks "Advanced Permissions", they should be given a pop-up that says something like, "WARNING: Do you realize how frustrating this is if you don't know what you are doing? Don't you dare click this, until you know what "Advanced Permissions" really are. If you truly don't absolutely need this, then you will be sorry that you clicked it, since it will then cause you all kinds of trouble. Do not enable Advanced Permissions if you don't have multiple users editing this website. Enabling Advanced Permissions cannot be undone, and thus only uninstalling and reinstalling the entire website will un-enable Advanced Permissions."

Also, I suggest renaming it to something like, "Advanced Multiple User Permissions", to communicate the idea that it is something for people management, not website editing.

The website listed above isn't currently loading for me. It resolves but then just "Waiting for....".

Me too. I don't know what is wrong. Thanks for sharing with me that you also have this problem. I suppose it is my web host. I will contact them.

May be Advanced Permissions means if concrete update new version, then concrete does not send any notifision.

Hi,

You can set the permissions to a page and inherit the same permissions to all the other pages in the site.

Refer the screenshot. Hope this helps as Advanced permissions are helpful when you want to control your site as what information you would like the guest visitor to view.

hi im having this nightmare to, i want to go live with my site but it says:

Your concrete5 site does not use the simple permissions model. You must change your permissions for each specific page and content area.

how can i make my site public, im going crazy?

have you cleared your cache? What is the url of your site?