Problem renaming admin folder - v1.38a

[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?

[DrByte]

1. It's taking you to your shop home page strictly because that's how your site has been set up to handle 404-not-found conditions.

2. The fact that going to the login.php directly works shows that you've got the files in the right folder.

3. The reason going to just /shop/my_admin/ gives you a redirect is because when you don't specify a filename, the server assumes index.php and, since the first thing index.php does is verify whether you're logged in, since you're not yet logged in, it's trying to redirect you to the login page. Hence the difference between going direct to the login.php page yourself.

4. Your redirects are clearly the problem, and the admin redirects are always built based on the info in your /admin_folder_name/includes/configure.php file.

So ... your edits to the admin configure.php file are your problem.

Please post what you have in your admin configure.php file now. Feel free to mask the actual admin foldername and replace your URL with my_domain.com. And of course your database details.
Please don't mask anything else.

[Jay76]

Ok just let me get that info