Problem renaming admin folder - v1.38a

[DrByte]

Without putting login.php, you're basically putting index.php, like this: www.my_domain.com/shop/my_admin/index.php ... which is the same place that the login.php will redirect you to after you've succesfully authenticated your login in login.php

"really slow" sounds really odd, and should have no bearing on the rename.

[Jay76]

[QUOTE=daltonkost;857906]

Hi DrByte...... I am sure that was posted on this thread #11 to change to this so that is why that is the way it is/QUOTE]

Obviously, the guy who wrote post 11 is an idiot, and whose advice should never be followed by anyone at any time.

Seriously, sorry to have added to your frustrations by leading you astray. You did however have /shop/ in an earlier, failed attempt.

Hope you post how you fixed it so we can all learn how.

Good Luck
Dalton

Hey Dalton,

No bad blood mate, sorry if it came across that I was blaming you for suggesting what you put on your post..... not the case as you were trying to help me so I thank you for that.

I have back ups anyway so no big deal, ;-)

[Jay76]

Without putting login.php, you're basically putting index.php, like this: www.my_domain.com/shop/my_admin/index.php ... which is the same place that the login.php will redirect you to after you've succesfully authenticated your login in login.php

"really slow" sounds really odd, and should have no bearing on the rename.

Just feels like I am on dial up to get into the admin now, was really fast before and was on the old admin named folder?? strange

[DrByte]

Okay, I just did this for myself fresh, with the https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=33 FAQ as a guide:

1. Unzip a clean copy of v1.3.8a to my PC.
2. Upload all the files to a new folder on my server: ****/public_html/teststore/ (so, that gives me an admin folder of "/teststore/admin/", similar to your "/shop/admin/")
3. Run zc_install, and set it all up (setting permissions etc as instructed).
4. Test my admin login in the /teststore/admin/ folder so I know it works.
5. Use my FTP program to download the new /teststore/admin/includes/configure.php file to my PC.
6. Use Notepad++ to change the 3 references to "admin" to "myadmin" (so they now look like "/teststore/myadmin/" etc), as the FAQ says
7. Save the changes to my PC
8. Upload the changes back to the server.
9. Use my FTP program to rename my "admin" folder to "myadmin"
10. Visit www.my_domain.com/teststore/myadmin ... and it brings me to my login page. I enter the admin username/pwd, and it logs me in and takes me to my admin home screen.

[daltonkost]

Jay76

I didn't take as bad blood, nor that you were laying blame, just felt bad I gave you poor advice.

Obviously, the guy who wrote post 11 is an idiot, and whose advice should never be followed by anyone at any time

Just joking around.

Glad things are coming together

Dalton

[Jay76]

and even without using login.php on the end?

Mine just brings up an error which I dont know why?

but yours works straight off

[DrByte]

What if you put index.php instead of login.php? Does that give you the error too?

And in both cases, the redirect will be visible in your browser URL address bar. What's it changing to? (before it jumps to your /shop/page_not_found.php)

[Jay76]

by putting shop/my_admin it just brings up the error 404 page not found as before.

By putting the full path shop/my_admin/index.php it changes the last part to login.php and loads slowly.

Really strange, works on the full path but something not right still

[DrByte]

Your webserver errorlog may tell you the actual cause of the 404 error (ie: the file/path it's looking for but cannot find). You should be able to access that in cPanel under something like "apache error log".

I've no idea why it's so slow though. Is it slow to load the login page, or slow to switch from login page to next page? And once it gets TO the next page, does it go along fine in something like orders or products pages? If so, then it could be that your server is having trouble connecting to the Zen Cart server to check for latest version details. https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=81

[Jay76]

yes I will check that out, once in the admin area it is fine.... I am now having access issues to the server through ftp and Cpanel on the shop so maybe you are on the ball with this