Problem renaming admin folder - v1.38a

[Jay76]

What exactly is the error message you get now? And how do you make that error appear? ie: what URL are you going to, etc?
If it's still telling you it can't find the OLD url where /admin/ is listed as the foldername, then your FTP program isn't uploading your changes, probably due to file permissions.

And, for the record, renaming your admin folder has nothing to do with whether code patches are included or not. It's just best-practice. If you can't rename your admin, then don't. But if you can't, then you probably have some other problems on your site that need addressing, or maybe it's just the file-permissions thing again.

You could be right with the file permissions, dont worry about me I am just mouthing off because it aint working.

Jay76

Sorry I couldn't help.


Good Luck

Dalton

Thanks Dalton

[DrByte]

Maybe these may contain some helpful info on how to change permissions using various methods?
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=148
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=9

[Jay76]

read that and confident everything has been done correct on the file permissions, I have cpanel access so all done via file manager

..... at a total loss, site will have stay as it is

[DrByte]

With all the discussion above I'm still unclear about what exactly your symptoms are.

[Jay76]

sorry I will explain... when doing the admin rename I just end up at the shop instead of the admin sign in page, I should be able to sign into the admin (new name) but I cant.

I get a error 404 page not found? but still on the shop page? ..... only way I can explain it

[DrByte]

If you go to www.your_domain.com/shop/your_admin/login.php ... what happens?
Assuming it gives you the login prompt, and you try to login, now what happens? Is that when the 404 now appears?

[Jay76]

Hi DrByte,

by doing what you say it takes me to the login page but I then get link broken http 404 file not found

I was doing www.mysite.com/shop/my_admin which I was always able to signin on before this change.

I have a screen grab here, it takes me to my shop home page?