Cannot access admin/index.php

[stevesh]

You can't access the admin by entering the URL (www. yoursite.com/YOUR_NEW_ADMIN_FOLDER_NAME) directly into the browser ? The button on the Installation Successful page is hard-coded to go to /admin.

[jameyo]

You can't access the admin by entering the URL (www. yoursite.com/YOUR_NEW_ADMIN_FOLDER_NAME) directly into the browser ? The button on the Installation Successful page is hard-coded to go to /admin.

That's correct, Steve. I've tried it both ways: it won't let me access admin when it's named as admin, or when it's renamed. Either way, trying the URL for admin gives me the "Thanks" message. I don't even see the log in form. Goes straight to the error page. I'd left configure.php writeable throughout, so any changes could be made but I don't see them in the files. I've tried making the files writeable and not in every possible combination I could think of and no joy.

What about hard-coding configure.php to the new admin url? And why would configure.php need to be writeable? More to the point, what does a working 1.5.* config file look like when working?

Thanks to all for their assistance thus far...

[stevesh]

Once the installation is done, Zencart doesn't write to the configure.php files, and they should be set to read-only (444).

In almost every case I've seen, the 'Thanks ...' page shows when the path info in the relevant configure.php file is wrong. You might post the contents of admin/includes/configure.php here, Xing out the name of your admin folder and the DB access details (user, password, DB name).

If the problem were the database credentials, you should get a different error message, so those are probably OK.

[jameyo]

I solved my problem by hard-coding the changed admin file into the configure.php file. I realize I might be undercutting security by doing so but I couldn't make it work any other way.

Lesson: the dynamic admin PHP syntax does not work, apparently, on Ubuntu 11 (at least in our configuration).

If someone has an idea about to make the config file work properly, I'm all ears. Until then, I'll be working on my store......

Thanks for all the help.

[TomZoy]

I solved my problem by hard-coding the changed admin file into the configure.php file. I realize I might be undercutting security by doing so but I couldn't make it work any other way.

Lesson: the dynamic admin PHP syntax does not work, apparently, on Ubuntu 11 (at least in our configuration).

If someone has an idea about to make the config file work properly, I'm all ears. Until then, I'll be working on my store......

Thanks for all the help.

I'm having the same problem :S

After updating from 1.39h to 1.5, my admin/includes/configure.php is totally empty, and I can't access the admin login form =S
How did you managed to make this work ?
please help

[Nathfunstuff]

Installed 1.5 and started to populate the database... all worked fine for a while and now I can't connect to my admin pannel...
when I enter my .../admin/index.php in the adress bar, I get the login, then poof... all goes blank it runs forever and ends up with a white page... at the bottom of my page i get "Waiting for fr.integrabuilt.us" and if I look at the java console it tells me that it has to do with one of the .js calling for that site but I know nothing about java script... can anyone help me out?