2 different installs (https and http)

[Ajeh]

Only the login is secure in the Admin at this time ...

Is your catalog working correctly with the symlink in place?

[agrapha]

seems to be.

I did notice one abnormality since I'm looking at every admin link, The catalog links are not all from the same host.

admin -> catalog -> catagories/products

that links to http://www.ourserver.com/cart/admin/catagories.php

but

admin -> catalog -> product types

links to

www.ourserver.com/cart/admin/product_types.php

and the item below that links to:

ourserver.com/cart/admin/product_price_manager.php

so my question is what file controlls the admin/catalog drop down menu?

[Ajeh]

If you have both configure.php files setup to use the www in the URL, check that you do not have any rewrites in the .htaccess trying to manage the URL and forcing secure or redirects to not using the www ...

[agrapha]

Thanks for your help Ajeh. You helped me more than once with configuration issues, and I truly appreciate it.

As for the menu dropdowns, I got it figured out. The admin menu has a javascript feature to create a dropdown effect based on the elements on a page. Nicely done, and the error is one that seems more cosmetic rather than function affecting.

The problem can be reproduced by hovering the mouse over the
admin -> catalog -> catagories/products
menu. Then slowly hover over each item in the dropdown, noting the url generated by each item on your browsers url info line. For my Chrome browser this information is located bottom left.

The items with long file names are the ones getting truncated. example:

admin -> catalog -> catagories/products
that links to http://www.ourficticiousserverurl.co...catagories.php
thats 63 characters and works perfectly and yes our url is really 22 characters long.

but the menu item labeled "Products Price Manager"
http://www.ourficticiousserverurl.co...ce_manager.php
has 87 characters and so the displayed link in the bottom left of my browser only shows:
ourficticiousserverurl.com.com/cart/admin/product_price_manager.php

thus dropping the "http://www." from my browser's displayed information. That means on Chrome, the displayed url information must be < 76 characters or it begins truncating the display.

Remember this is only happens when hovering over the menu items. Is this a bug with zencart menus, or my browsers javascript? I don't know. Others will have to check their menus and post back. Currently, even the truncated menus route correctly for me. I'm leaning towards this being a chrome thing. I can provide clearer details, if the developers need it. Till then, I think we are back in service.

Thanks all,
Frust Rated

[Ajeh]

I cannot reproduce this on FireFox 3.x nor on IE 6 ...