Admin And Checkout Throw 500 Error

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I would be willing to bet that your "bottom line" hosting with GoneDaddy involved paying for three years at a time. Their great-looking $5.99 offer is only available with a 3-year contract. Otherwise, it starts at $11.99 for a month. And, monthly gets nothing free. Get ready for the "Oh you want to have a ##########__ (Insert some feature here)."

I hope you bothered to look at the fine print. Let's take the annual plan. What a bargain at $6.99 (actually, you have to pay $83.88 up front). You get two email addresses but they are only free for three months.

You get a free SSL but it is not free after the first year. That's going to be an extra $99.99 a year.

You get free Website Security until December of this year when the trial period is over and, unless you can find some way to deny it, you will automatically be renewed at the $158.88 fee.

As a minimum (with email being $1.99 a month for two addresses after two months), your first year will actually be $262.66 and the second will be $366.63.

And most sites need/use abuse@, sales@, info@, and postmaster@ not to mention emails for the owner(s) and staff. Every 2 address is another $1.99 a month.

Your first year is going to cost you a minimum of $21.89 per month on an annual plan and the second will be $30.55 per month. You will not be hit with most of that until December (right after the 30-day return date) But, you will have to pay both in a lump sum for year two.

And, they won't give you enough heads up on the renewal to transfer your domain if you are unhappy. They will probably want to keep your credit card on file so they can bill you in the middle of the night.

And, you will be unhappy within 6 months or less. They keep you at bay with problems till just after the 30-day mark and suddenly defer you to everybody else as the source of your problem.

Their "sorry about that" return policy will probably result in you paying $200+ for six months. It's a great business plan that keeps them afloat quite well.

I wonder why they are not listed as a Zen Cart Certified Host?

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I just signed up quickly to try to get closer to a solution. I'm way closer on my original host to a solution so I just need this one thing figured out.

The odd thing is restoring my old admin didn't fix anything. I've tried to put the same working .htaccess from my /store into /store/admin but it just either spins forever or gives me a 500 error there. What is weird is it was working when my store wasn't before and just hung up and broke at some point during my troubleshooting (not during any major change either)

Another note, I've been running things with my current host since ZC 1.3.8 which looks like it was released 14 years ago. Again never had no responses from them, but it I can get back up under them then I'm happy.

Update - I'm making progress rebuilding on 2.0.1 with an imported DB.

Moved .htaccess in. Had to do the trick I found here to set the country in Paypal to US in paypadp.php or whatever then remove the paypal module, remove that piece of code, and reinstall the Paypal module. I had to re download and put into place the USPS shipping module.

Pulled my template in, edit the metadata file, index file, and header (my header is a bit different).

Now the last things to fix are for some reason on product pages with my old template, images on product pages show full size above the small image below. I expected there to be some templating changes needed going from 1.5.x to 2.0x. so I guess that is the last part I need to fix.

Still not even sure why my .htaccess from 4 years ago messed things up and then could not for the life of me get the old /admin working even from backups.

I guess I'm mostly good and I appreciate all your help. Never had to do that level of work on ZC other than the templating I did in 2009 where I had to learn how to do that. Will be a sigh of relief when I get this last image problem fixed and I already took a snap of the store where I'm at.

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FYI this is the image problem at this point. Again old templating/CSS issue somewhere.

Copied stylesheet_image_modals.css and stylesheet_image_modals.php into my template and that fixed that! Thanks for having my freak out on here and helping me. Still so confused why I needed to do all this.