Admin Log-In page blank

[geotnt]

So, by your reply, I presume that .php files aren't modified by using the system?

Can you tell me what files are used by the zen cart admin login?

[geotnt]

can anyone help?

[DrByte]

Can you tell me what files are used by the zen cart admin login?

If your admin page is coming up blank, it's almost certain that it's *not* related to "login" specifically.
Instead, you've likely corrupted one or more critical bootstrap files that are used to load *every* admin page, hence the "blank screen" indicating that you've triggered a PHP error, either due to a syntax error in something you've edited, or a file that's been incompletely uploaded or is deleted/missing, etc.

The debug logging explained at https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=82 would normally create myDebug-adm-xxxx.log files, but if you've damaged a file that's loaded even before the logging system is initialized, then of course it can't prepare those logs for you.

Here's the recommended approach for you: http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...Obscure_Issues

[geotnt]

That's a place to start.

Now, let me ask. If I decide to go with a completely new install of Zen Cart, what files do I need to keep in order to restore the store items? Are the files in the root directory, or in the Zen Cart admin directory?

This all started because tinyMCE wasn't working properly.

[DrByte]

Um ... if by "restore the store items" you're referring to your "products", then the answer is: neither. That information is in the database, not PHP files.

Re-installing is probably overkill. But if you do, be sure you take a database backup before you do ANYTHING, because it sounds like you're not understanding what the database is, and since a "new install" involves emptying the database, I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up wiping everything out.

Instead, I would suggest simply undoing whatever you did when you uploaded files the other day. I'm guessing you put some files in the wrong places ... and the comparison I pointed you to would expose that quickly.

[geotnt]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a "database" a collection of inter-related files making up the records describing the products? It would then stand to reason that these files are kept somewhere. All I'm asking is where does Zen Cart keep them?

[DrByte]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a "database" a collection of inter-related files making up the records describing the products?

No, not really. At least not in this context.
A MySQL database is NOT a casual self-managed simple low-end "database" like MS Access or some flat-text-file with which you might be more familiar. This is far more efficient and secure than those other approaches.

It would then stand to reason that these files are kept somewhere.

On a strictly technical sense, yes there are "files" which store the data, but those files are managed entirely by the MySQL database engine running on your server, and those files are NOT accessible to you yourself, nor to Zen Cart.

All I'm asking is where does Zen Cart keep them?

Again, Zen Cart has NO control over those physical "files".
Instead, Zen Cart simply logs into the database engine which takes care of looking up and supplying any requested data and updating/inserting any data as directed by you while using the Zen Cart application.

[geotnt]

Thanks for teaching me a little something. I had seen mySQL databases before, but they were flat-text-files. Or, at least they were able to be made so by the program driving them.

In any event, your suggested approach worked. I found one extra .php file and one mislocated one. Once I moved the mislocated one to its proper place and renamed the extra one to .php1, all seems to be working well.

Now I can try to figure out the original problem, which may or may not have anything to do with ZC. When using either TInyMCE, or HTMLarea to edit store items, any icon I click on opens a window with the sites index page. I'm thinking its outside of the ZC realm, as it behaved the same with a fresh install of ZC.

Again, thanks for your help!!

[missnura_com]

Can some One please Help me, am upset with the that the admin page is blank, cant login, its empty.

When i checked chache/i have reinstalled 5times with the same error, and when i checked the log file in chache/myDEBUG-adm-1329338350-320507.log i get this message:



[15-Feb-2012 13:00:58 UTC] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/a/3/f/missnura.com/httpd.www/signin/includes/languages/swedish/email_extras.php:1) in /customers/a/3/f/missnura.com/httpd.www/signin/includes/init_includes/init_templates.php on line 28
[15-Feb-2012 13:00:58 UTC] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/a/3/f/missnura.com/httpd.www/signin/includes/languages/swedish/email_extras.php:1) in /customers/a/3/f/missnura.com/httpd.www/signin/includes/functions/general.php on line 21

[Ajeh]

Check this file and make sure there is nothing before the <?php at the top of the file ...

If you do not "see" anything, delete that line and re-write it ...