Permission error logging into admin

[alkazar]

Just installed zen cart for the first time. Install appears to finish ok and the site comes up on my browser ok, but I can't seem to get into the admin area. I have tried clicking on the admin area button at the end of the install as well as manually entering /admin/index.php and get the following error: You don't have permission to access /admin/ on this server

Component name Component version
www.onlinecircuitsales.com
mysql 3.23.58-1
php 4.3.2-14.ent
perl-Apache-ASP 2.57-rhel3.build71040817.01

I have checked the configuration files and can't seem to figure out why I get this error. Please help.

[DrByte]

Just installed zen cart for the first time. Install appears to finish ok and the site comes up on my browser ok, but I can't seem to get into the admin area. I have tried clicking on the admin area button at the end of the install as well as manually entering /admin/index.php and get the following error: You don't have permission to access /admin/ on this server

Try TEMPORARILY renaming the /admin/.htaccess file

[alkazar]

Thank you for the immediate response. I have tried your suggestion of renaming the htaccess file and there is no difference. Any other ideas? The main page comes up fine but I can not get into the admin portion. Thank you again.

[DetroitOnline]

Make sure you didn't accidently change the permissions on the /admin folder. It should be set to 755. Also make sure that /admin/includes/configure.php is set to 644.

Are you seeing a 403 error when you try to access the Admin section?

[alkazar]

Thanks for the tips, changed the /admin dir to 755 and verified admin/includes/config file was 644. Still get the following:
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /admin/index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Server at www.componentcommerce.com Port 80

Thanks again for the help.

[DetroitOnline]

What does your Apache error_log say? It will be kicking out an error entry for this. It should shed some more light on the issue.

[alkazar]

Removed everything, added a directory to the httpdocs directory and installed it there, and it works fine now.??. For some reason ther are no permission problems now. Thanks for the help.

[DetroitOnline]

Did you originally have it in htdocs when you were getting the errors?