Rename Admin Folder not working for me

[kbear]

I've just tried renameing my admin folder as described in the tutorial
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=33

This says that in 1.5 you need make no changes to the configuration.php file.

However, when I change the folder name, the login fails with a 404 error.

In the configuration.php file there is a section that still describes the location of the admin folder and it is still set to the original value

Surely this needs changing as well?

[DrByte]

1. Is this a fresh NEW install, or is it an upgrade? Are your configure.php files NEW?
2. The file name is "configure.php", not "configuration.php". There is indeed a "configuration.php" file and that should NEVER be touched. Don't mix them up or you'll definitely get errors. They're completely different.

If you're truly using a fresh new install of v1.5.0 and DID NOT copy old configure.php files from a prior version, then ALL you need to do is rename the admin folder, and NOT TOUCH the configure.php file. Of course, once you rename the admin folder you need to use the new foldername in your browser's address bar, else you'll get a 404 error (404 means "not found") because the old address you were going to is indeed "not found" because you renamed it to something else.

[kbear]

This is a NEW install - I had to completely remove the old version because my ISP's upgrade routine failed and left me with an unusable store.
After the instal was complete, I have a configure.php file in my admin/includes folder

Inside this file are a number of references to a folder called zc_admin - which is what the original install called my admin area.
Once i changed the name, this file did not change and when I try to login I get the following message

Not Found

The requested URL /zc_admin/login.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request


Does this mean that the installer I am using from my ISP (through Fantastico) is faulty?

[barco57]

Can you post the following section of your admin/includes/configure.php?

// NOTE: be sure to leave the trailing '/' at the end of these lines if you make changes!
// * DIR_WS_* = Webserver directories (virtual/URL)
  // these paths are relative to top of your webspace ... (ie: under the public_html or httpdocs folder)
  $t1 = parse_url(HTTP_SERVER);$p1 = $t1['path'];$t2 = parse_url(HTTPS_SERVER);$p2 = $t2['path'];
  
  define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', preg_replace('#^' . str_replace('-', '\-', $p1) . '#', '', dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) . '/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', preg_replace('#^' . str_replace('-', '\-', $p2) . '#', '', dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) . '/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

  define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
  define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'images/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_TEMPLATE', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/templates/');
  define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
  define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
  define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
  define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
  define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');

// * DIR_FS_* = Filesystem directories (local/physical)
  define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../') . '/');
  define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/username/public_html/');

[kbear]

Can you post the following section of your admin/includes/configure.php?

// NOTE: be sure to leave the trailing '/' at the end of these lines if you make changes!
// * DIR_WS_* = Webserver directories (virtual/URL)
  // these paths are relative to top of your webspace ... (ie: under the public_html or httpdocs folder)
  $t1 = parse_url(HTTP_SERVER);$p1 = $t1['path'];$t2 = parse_url(HTTPS_SERVER);$p2 = $t2['path'];
  
  define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', preg_replace('#^' . str_replace('-', '\-', $p1) . '#', '', dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) . '/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', preg_replace('#^' . str_replace('-', '\-', $p2) . '#', '', dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) . '/');
  define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

  define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
  define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'images/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_TEMPLATE', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/templates/');
  define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
  define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
  define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
  define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
  define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');
  define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');

// * DIR_FS_* = Filesystem directories (local/physical)
  define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../') . '/');
  define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/username/public_html/');

Mine is

// NOTE: be sure to leave the trailing '/' at the end of these lines if you make changes!
// * DIR_WS_* = Webserver directories (virtual/URL)
// these paths are relative to top of your webspace ... (ie: under the public_html or httpdocs folder)
$t1 = parse_url(HTTP_SERVER);$p1 = $t1['path'];$t2 = parse_url(HTTPS_SERVER);$p2 = $t2['path'];


define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/zc_admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/zc_admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');


define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'images/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_TEMPLATE', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/templates/');
define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');
define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');


// * DIR_FS_* = Filesystem directories (local/physical)
define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/equin125/public_html/zc_admin/');
//the following path is a COMPLETE path to your Zen Cart files. eg: /var/www/vhost/accountname/public_html/store/
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/equin125/public_html/');

[barco57]

Ok, your fantastico install is not putting in the correct stuff for v1.5 so that the new admin folder can used in the way it was intended.
The quickest fix is to change zc_admin in that config file to your new admin folder name otherwise you could copy in the correct code for the file so it works as originally intended. You can see what is supposed to be there in my example above.

[kbear]

Thanks for your help

I've used the option of overwriting the folder names because when I pasted in your code, I could only get to the "You are seeing this page....." telling me that I hadn't finished the install. And since all my install files had been removed during the installation, there was nothing else I could do.

I guess my major worry is what else it screwed up on - although the admin panel looks to be a new version and the database has also changes.

Is there any quick thing I can check to see if the install looks OK?

John

Anyone else using HostPapa - please be aware, the upgrade path doesn't work and the fresh install is obviously faulty too.

[barco57]

Well, when you copied "my code" into your config file you probably didn't make any adjustments for the define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/username/public_html/'); line and left it that way instead of making sure it said define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/equin125/public_html/'); which would cause you to get the page that says "You are seeing this page....."
Thats probably the only thing that was wrong being it was a new install, fantastico just hasn't adjusted their installer to deal with the difference between admin config file in 1.5 vs earleir versions.....Knowing something about installers like that I can see where they would have a problem because they probably offer multiple versions of Zen Cart to install and since they only want to have one underlying installer they use the old method

[DrByte]

Does this mean that the installer I am using from my ISP (through Fantastico) is faulty?

If it says it's installing v1.5.0 but it's generating pre-1.5.0 configure.php file contents, then yes it's faulty. Report it to Fantastico directly: https://netenberg.com/#customer.html