[Not a ZC Bug] Automatically redirected to admin/installation folder

[jaycode]

I recently found this bug when working on a client's site with these parameters (you can check these status by creating a <?php phpinfo(); ?> file:

SERVER_SOFTWARE: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
PHP VERSION: 5.2.4.

It is not actually the bug of Zen-Cart, but rather the IIS itself, I've never found this problem with Apache Server.

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I. Technical Description (Warning, might sound too technical,
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The problem was the website will automatically change its working directory when you go to different folders in the website, say:
1. you go to admin, (by this time your working directory is changed to admin )
2. then open up index.php
3. the index.php will import the files under the admin directory
4. some of the files inside application_top.php wont be loaded, then it will open up your installation folder, thinking you haven't installed properly.
5. If you already removed / renamed your installation folder, php will cancel that request and get back to the root folder, which now has been changed to admin folder.

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II. How to Solve
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1. I added these lines of code in index.php:

chdir("D:/Inetpub/[YOUR_WEBSITE_FOLDER]/admin");
chdir("../");

It may look lousy, but yeap I used a workaround to access the website folder, which was by going to admin folder first then go up one level.

Good Luck,

Jaycode