Styles gone after editing config file

[aself]

I'm trying to edit my config files after changing nameservers. When I changed from

 define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://myusername.hostname.com');
 define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://myusername.hostname.com');

to

 define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.mydomain.com');
 define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://www.mydomain.com');

I lose my styles. Also, the links within the unstyled page return 404 errors.

I also cannot access my admin login page.

Thanks for any help!

[haredo]

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=100

[DrByte]

Mark, they said they changed *nameservers*, not "servers". Granted, some people throw around the term "nameservers" without knowing what they're really saying.

I suspect the problem is twofold:
a) If there has in fact been a change made to nameserver settings, then replication hasn't completed yet. Can take up to 48 hours.
b) In addition to altering HTTP_SERVER settings sometimes it's necessary to alter DIR_WS_CATALOG and/or DIR_FS_CATALOG. It really depends on the big picture of what's really changed technically regarding paths.

[aself]

Thank you both for responding. I did in fact mean nameservers, although it IS new to me . My domain is hosted at a different host and previously, I just used a redirect. I'm just getting my security certificate and needed to change the nameservers which I did about 8 days ago. A lot seems to have happened when I did that. The problems I've listed are the ones I could wrap my head around to start with.

Regarding b) from DrByte, I didn't change any paths on purpose but I understand there were changes and I need to learn how to fix them now.

[DrByte]

Perhaps you can explain the bigger picture about why you're changing what you're changing?

[aself]

Ok, the long story is that I had a site and domain at one host. I didn't like the interface at that host and was redesigning the site and adding a shopping cart (ZC). Therefore, I built the site at a new host but left the old one up until the new one was finished. When it was done, all I did was point (terminology?) the domain to the new site. At this point, the domain is at the original host and the files are at the new host. I can tell you that at this stage when you went to any page on my site the URL was www.mydomain.com and when I refreshed any page it always went back to the index page. Hopefully that describes what I did with the domain pointing.

I had the product page basically disabled at this time and just bought a security certificate. To do so, I had to change the nameservers where the domain is to properly go to my new site. When I did that and after 48 hours I couldn't access my site with www.mydomain.com but figured out that I could with www.mydomain.com/CUSTOM/index.php. I called my host and they changed a few things and got that to work. However, I can't access my admin login page (404 error) and can't figure out what to change the config files to. Which brings me back to my first post.

Thank you so much for your patience in reading my posts. I don't know how else to fix this

Andrea