SSL not allowing admin access

**RAD1964** · 22 Jun 2010, 11:48 PM

ZENCART v.1.3.8
Site recently upgraded for a SSL certificate
No other add-ons since
Site was working fine before install of SSL certificate

PROBLEM: Accessing the admin of zencart, via http:// redirects to https:// and after filling out name and password it just blanks out the 2 fields and sits there.

The rest of the live site is fine.

yikes!

I need this to function the way it was meant to, obviously. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

RAD1964

**Qdixon** · 23 Jun 2010, 06:11 AM

nothing to do with SSL, you may be typing in wrong username and password.

What has probably happened is you are relying on your browser to populate the username and password and you forgot your password.

If you have check this, click on the password recovery...if this doesnt work you will need to reset your admin setting...look in the tutorials for "reset admin username and password"

**RAD1964** · 23 Jun 2010, 07:55 PM

Qdixon,
No, There was only one password I issued when I created the site. I have confirmed that password is still in tact by going into the configuration.php file.

My browser is not caching the PW, for one because I have not had to goto this admin in a year. and I recently reformatted the computer. So no caching and the password is correct.

I have to go with my basic assumption, this is all about the SSL.

Like I said things worked before hand.

RAD

**RAD1964** · 23 Jun 2010, 07:58 PM

In my cfg is the following:

Code:

/ Define the webserver and path parameters
  // HTTP_SERVER is your Main webserver: eg, http://www.yourdomain.com
  // HTTPS_SERVER is your Secure webserver: eg, https://www.yourdomain.com
  define('HTTP_SERVER',  'https://www.shimmys.net');
  define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.shimmys.net');

The line HTTP_SERVER I tried removing the s from https and still did not get things to work.

**dbltoe** · 23 Jun 2010, 08:01 PM

Your admin password should not be in the configure file. That should be the password for your database and it's not a good idea for them to be the same.

Plus the code you gave is for the path(s) versus the switches of true or false. Still, I think Qdixon is correct.

**RAD1964** · 23 Jun 2010, 08:21 PM

While I assume you are correct that my database and admin login should NOT be the same, it is for now (I will change it once I get access again)...

Code:

define('ENABLE_SSL', 'true');

so here's where it defines the SSL...

I have my host looking into the issue also...

**RAD1964** · 23 Jun 2010, 08:27 PM

hmm something that I just thought of, would this hta access file have anything to do with my problem?

.htaccess (root redirect)
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^shimmys\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.shimmys.net/$1 [L,R=301]