New install cannot reach admin

[priceform]

Hi :)

I have a similar issue. I have the shopping cart here http://www.priceform.com/zencart/index.php however I cannot reach my admin screen. I changed the name of my admin folder and the required entries in the admin/includes/configure.php folder but keep getting a 404 message.

One thing, I have a have a dist-configure.php and a configure.php in the admin/includes folder.

Help!

[Donal]

could be a few things
what did you change?

[priceform]

Hi :)

This

A - Edit /admin/includes/configure.php

Using your FTP program, download a copy of your /admin/includes/configure.php file to your computer.
Using a simple text editor like notepad (or better yet, use Notepad++ or TextWrangler), change all instances of admin to your chosen new admin folder-name.

For maximum security, you may want to consider that new folder name should include numbers and a combination of upper and lower case letters. The longer you make this folder's name the more secure it will be.

When editing, make sure you leave all the / (slashes) alone.

Change this section:

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');


And this section:

define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/mystore.com/www/public/admin/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/mystore.com/www/public/');


You will end up with something that looks like this:

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/mysecretadminarea/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/mysecretadminarea/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');


And:

define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/mystore.com/www/public/mysecretadminarea/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/mystore.com/www/public/');

I also changed the permissions to 444 in the admin & admin/includes

[Donal]

and you are now trying to get to www.yourdomain.com/mysecretadmin
yes?
and try 755!

[Website Rob]

admin/includes must have permissions of 755

admin/includes/configure.php must have permissions of 644 in order to edit, after edits finished change back to 444

Note: replace admin with the name you are using.

[priceform]

Hi

Sorted

Thanks for your help