Problems changing install directory

[double-happiness]

I followed the instructions on https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=122 to change my install directory to the root of my site, it seemed to work OK at first, but now I am just getting...

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I still have the original install in place as I didn't want to delete it until I was sure the new install was OK, what is puzzling me is after I login to my new Zen Cart admin directory, the url has /catalog/ and all the links are to /catalog/ (the old install dir.), so it seems I am being re-directed to the old admin area.

NB there is also a setting in my web-host control panel to specify the installation directory, but changing that didn't fix the problem.

Any help please? thanks

[joejoejoe]

Just a few thoughts based on mistakes I might have made myself but I'm not admitting to it -

Step 4 of that tutorial is critical - if you don't set the permissions to writable first, then you just think you've made the changes but you really didn't. And if you're doing it in the middle of the night, 16 hours in front of the monitor with nothing but stale doritos and a 6-pack of red bull, it's easy to make the same mistake over and over and over....

Are you following the old bookmark to get to the new admin site?
(Try typing in www.yourdomain/yoursecretadmin/login.php)

And the big one - if it worked, but then it doesn't - Did your host take the server down for maintenance without telling you?

[double-happiness]

Thanks for the response.

The edits look to have been saved fine...

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

I take it that would be right for the root directory?

I'm defintely logged in to the new install, all the links shown there are fine.

[double-happiness]

Seems to be OK now. Should I just go ahead and delete the old installation, is there a way to deactivate it without removing the files, or would that be more of a security risk?

[afo]

I don't see any reason you can't keep the old install as a test site, but if it's still sharing the same database as the live site, any changes you make will be reflected in both sites. You could create a separate database for the "old" cart (create the db, copy the live db into it and then change the config of the "old" cart to point to the test db).

[double-happiness]

The cart on my main page is now permanently down.

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...is all I can get at present. Any suggestions please?

I've been working on this for about a year now and yet to see a stable install at the url I want