[TYPO3] admin panel show up on backend but not on frontend

[Bing Du]

> Bing Du wrote:
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> On 3/1/07, Bing Du <bdu at iastate.edu> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Typo3 V4.0.4
>>>>
>>>> In Web->View, I can see the admin panel and pencils on the pages.  But
>>>> no
>>>> admin panel and pencils when looking at the page in web browser (same
>>>> as
>>>> what the backend is running in).  Page source doesn't have admin panel
>>>> stuff.  What could be the problem?
>>>
>>> One thing I thought of while looking into this (you may remember that
>>> a week or so ago I mentioned that this was a problem I'd seen), was to
>>> ensure that you're logged into exactly the same domain as you're
>>> previewing. This means if you want to look at the site
>>> www.example.com, you should be logged into www.example.com/typo3/
>>>
>>> Make sure that's what you're doing and see if anything different
>>> happens.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Christopher Torgalson
>>> http://www.typo3apprentice.com/
>>
>> Thanks much again, Christopher.  Yes, I remember that.  And I know it
>> has
>> to be the same domain.  After I logged on the backend, I just copied the
>> URL but leaving 'typo3/' out and pasted in the same type browser (FF).
>> So
>> I did  exactly what you said.  I also tried in IE, same thing.  My
>> situation is better than a couple of weeks ago.  At least frontend
>> editing
>> symbols show up fine on the backend.  I'm still scratching my head...
>>
>> Bing
>
> After testing more, now I've found if the pages are accessed via https,
> they do show pencils and the admin panel, but http doesn't.  How could
> that be?  hmmm.
>
> Bing

It turned out $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['lockSSL'] was set to '2'.  I changed
it to '3'.  The admin panel and pencils show up now for http.

Bing