Quote Originally Posted by xcergy View Post
As I said, a full 'dummy' version of configure.php would be helpful.
That's what the /includes/dist-configure.php and /admin/includes/dist-configure.php files are.

(And, unlike v1.3.x, in v1.5x you don't need to supply the admin foldername in the admin configure.php file ... that weird code you were trying to insert a foldername into is actually the folder-auto-detection code.)



Your perpetual-request-to-log-in problem is almost certainly a cookie problem ... caused when the domain name you're using for non-SSL doesn't match the name you're using with SSL. Or caused by the server having a misconfiguration related to PHP and session handling.
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