Upgrading - configure.php problems

[cwmajors]

I'm attempting to upgrade from 1.3.9b to the current version. Here's what I've done:

Made a copy of my live site (both files on webserver and database) so I'm working with a fully working copy of the store at /storecopy/ (original site lives at /store/)

Uploaded the 1.5.1 update over the top of /storecopy/, choosing to overwrite in all cases

Ran the install procedure, updating /storecopy/'s copy of the database to 1.5.1

Here's where I'm getting confused: When I tried to access storecopy/admin, I got an error message telling me I couldn't access /admin without changing the name of the admin folder. I did that following the instructions linked, which said (since I was on 1.5.1) all I needed to do was change the folder name. When I did that and tried to navigate to storecopy/mynewadminfoldername, I got my webhost's 404 page. But when I made the necessary changes to /storecopy/mynewadminfoldername/includes/configure.php (as if I was still running on 1.3.9b), it worked.

So my question: Why? Are the instructions wrong, or have I done something wrong so far? Do I need to make those changes in includes/configure.php, or no?

[DrByte]

The FAQ article you mentioned is assuming the configure.php files were built by zc_install from a fresh new install of Zen Cart, not upgraded from an older version.

So, since you used configure.php files that were built in v1.3.x, you'll need to continue treating them as if they were NOT designed for v1.5.x
So, yes, you'll need to edit them to suit whatever new directory name you chose.