Fatal Error: Failed opening required 'includes/application_top.php'

**DrByte** · 13 Oct 2007, 03:34 AM

Originally Posted by WeebleSue

Today, when I try to access the admin area, I get text-based pages. A script error appears on "line 46 of zen-cart/admin/index.php". it says Char 1, "object expected."

This will be because the javascript files used for the menu aren't loading properly.
This is related to same issue as the menu problems you had earlier.

It's possible that your server has a bad copy of the files, or your browser has cached incomplete copies of the files, or your server is blocking them for some reason.

Try clearing your browser's cache and cookies. Then close the browser and restart it.

**WeebleSue** · 13 Oct 2007, 03:58 AM

How would this also affect every one of the browsers I tried? Some of them I hadn't opened in months, so they would not have the problem of cache or cookies.

**WeebleSue** · 13 Oct 2007, 04:31 AM

I did clear the cache and cookies in MSIE, re-reinstalled Zen Cart from scratch, and still get the same problem.

**DrByte** · 13 Oct 2007, 06:56 AM

Open your admin page. Click OK on all the errors. Click on your browser's menu to let you View Source. Copy and paste that raw HTML here.

**WeebleSue** · 24 Oct 2007, 03:08 AM

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Zen Cart!</title>
<link href="includes/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body id="login" onload="document.getElementById('admin_name').focus()">
<form name="login" action="http://www.sts-aiche.org/test/zen-cart/admin/login.php" method = "POST">
  <fieldset>
    <legend>Admin Login</legend>
    <label class="loginLabel" for="admin_name">Admin Username:</label>
<input style="float: left" type="text" id="admin_name" name="admin_name" value="" />
<br class="clearBoth" />
    <label  class="loginLabel" for="admin_pass">Admin Password:</label>
<input style="float: left" type="password" id="admin_pass" name="admin_pass" value="" />
<br class="clearBoth" />
        <input type="submit" name="submit" class="button" value="Login" />
    <a style="float: right;" href="http://www.sts-aiche.org/test/zen-cart/admin/password_forgotten.php">Resend Password</a>  </fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>

**WeebleSue** · 24 Oct 2007, 03:10 AM

That was the admin login page... here is the admin/index.php page.

I really really need to get this to work... my 'default' system, SecurePay, is so pathetically basic it does not suit my needs and I can't apparently change.

I can do admin activities, but the interface is so poor it is really difficult.

Thanks in advance.
Susan

**DrByte** · 24 Oct 2007, 03:26 AM

Your server is blocking access to the javascript used to drive the menu:
http://www.sts-aiche.org/test/zen-ca...cludes/menu.js gets a 403-forbidden error.

Same with your stylesheet:
http://www.sts-aiche.org/test/zen-ca...stylesheet.css
and the menu stylesheet:
http://www.sts-aiche.org/test/zen-ca...smenuhover.css

I think you're being bitten by an incompatibility with your server and the content of the supplied .htaccess files. Try renaming your /admin/.htaccess to htaccess_OFF temporarily, and maybe also the one at /admin/includes/.htaccess

Related FAQ:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=235

**WeebleSue** · 24 Oct 2007, 03:35 AM

I have renamed all 4 of my .htaccess files to other things. I still get the same problem in all browsers that i try.

I have deleted all the .htaccess files. same problem. I've recreated the files (if you read above, I deleted Zen Cart and reinstalled from scratch, trying everything all over again). still to no avail.

...?

**DrByte** · 24 Oct 2007, 03:38 AM

Then you'll have to use your server's errorlog to indicate why you're being denied access to those files.

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