Fresh Install of 1.5.4 on go-daddy 404 error on the admin page

[petestownrich]

Hello All, I was having allot of trouble with the database conversion the site was hosted on an old server and control panel I was trying to do it in a sub-folder and seemed to have PHP issues. I added a c-panel so it is totally stand alone. THe PHP version is 5.4 I downloaded 1.5.4 from the site created a new database and did the install. It all went well. I renamed the admin folder did away with the zc_install folder I am getting the 404 page not found when I type the path for the admin area? I have done some reading in the forum but seem to be at a loss?

www.petestowntest.com

[DrByte]

404 means "page not found".

I hate to ask you to check the obvious, but are you spelling the new admin foldername properly? Remember URLs are case-sensitive after the first "/"

ie: EXAMPLE.COM is the same as ExaMple.com
but example.com/mYADmin is not the same as example.com/myadmin

[petestownrich]

YES lol I double checked that so as not to look stupid! I really am at a loss here. I have it stand alone NO changes FTP'd it up to the new panel. Total fresh install? followed directions. I had it running on the old server but could not get the database to convert so thus I did this. I do not have htacess file on there the name is right.... the site comes up. but NO admin page just get the 404 error.

[petestownrich]

I see allot of people seem to do a couple of installs and it finally works. Maybe I will just try it again.

[DrByte]

Since the first thing it's doing is taking the input from the URL and trying to find a matching file/folder for that name, one common simple test is to upload a new file to the server, like "example.txt" (containing something like "It works!" as the file content) and then see whether you can access it with your browser.
If not, then something else is interfering, and it's got nothing to do with Zen Cart.

Also, what happens if you just put it back to "admin"? Does it properly give you the expected warning?

[petestownrich]

NO I renamed it to admin and did www.petestowntest.com/admin and I still get the 404 error

[DrByte]

It appears to be an SSL misconfiguration on your server.

Set ENABLE_SSL_ADMIN to 'false' and the problem will go away.

Then you can work on setting the paths correctly for either your server's SSL or for your ZC shared SSL stuff.

[petestownrich]

in both includes/config.php files ?

[petestownrich]

Well I just re-installed it and it is up and working now! And doc just for future reference, I did change the config files to "false" it still did not change the result I kept getting the 404 error. Fresh install again and it works!

[DrByte]

I'm pretty sure if you compare your new working configure.php files against the ones you were using when the 404 was happening you'll find that there are differences in the paths you had in there for the HTTPS settings.