Let me add some detail. It seems that all users but Admin are just having an issue with the start page.
/wiki/docu.php
and the user gets a "Permission Denied; You don't have rights to continue"
At the top of the page it says
[Please fill or disable this placeholder (:wiki:site_notice) ]
and in the left hand frame:
[ Please fill or disable this placeholder (:wiki:navigation ]
Neither of these notices appear when loggin in as admin: the content of both the site_notice and navigation pages appear as expected.
the ACL has
wiki:* set to READ for all the groups of users who are trying to access the site who are allowed in...but only Admin can see the home page with wiki:site_notice and wiki:navigation. It is almost as if these just two pages have some peculiar permissions issues.
But, this is the odd part: if the user clicks on that link on the left, they are taken to:
http://wiki.hindu.org/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:navigation
which now shows the site tree they have rights to view.. and they can click on any link in the page and get to any page that is in a GROUP which that users is included/has access to.
So there is just something peculiar going with the ACL relative to the very "top" of the site...
Any ideas?