Changing what the url / page name is

[Kayz]

It's starange I thought I changed them all, but when I took a second look most of them had not changed. Confusing!! lol

I can see my new home page now but I can not get into my admin area. It says

I'm just getting the thank you for loading message again.

I'm a bit daft, what am I missing?

The http address I typed in is http://www.passionsignite.com.au/admin/

[DrByte]

Follow the FAQ posted earlier to determine the edits required to both configure.php files.
If you've renamed your admin folder, then you need to properly update that information too.

[Kayz]

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=122

Is this the link you mean?

If so then I have changed the following listed files.

# DIR_WS_CATALOG
# DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG
# DIR_FS_CATALOG
# DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE
# DIR_WS_ADMIN (in admin)
# DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN (in admin)
# DIR_FS_ADMIN (in admin)

I'm not to sure where I would need to change the name of my admin area.

[Kayz]

In both of the configure.php files there is the word"admin" in lower case and "admin" in uppercase. And the name I changed my admin folder to is also listed in some places. So I'm unclear as to what parts I may still need to change.

[Kayz]

I worked it out and can now get into my admin section however now my home page is showing all over the place and my links are no longer working. The keep coming up with can not find server.

What the devil did I do wrong. It was working a few minutes ago. I was testing all my links and they worked fine. Since I changed that 1 thing to get my admin area back I have lost most of my site page urls.

As you can tell I'm not very good at this sort of thing. A friend was supposed to do it for me but bailed at the last minute.

What do I do now? Any ideas?

[DrByte]

For some reason you've stuffed the letters "public_html" into your HTTP_SERVER or DIR_WS_CATALOG settings.

Why don't you look at the original configure.php files from BEFORE you made all these folder changes, and start again. This time only change the pieces that need changing.

[Kayz]

Ok, I started from scratch again and did the following.

1. Changed the session directory in admin to home/passions/public_html/cache

2. Altered the following configure.php files in admin>includes

CHANGED FILES FROM TO
a) ('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/zen-cart-v1.3.8a-full-fileset-12112007/'); ('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
b) ('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/zen-cart-v1.3.8a-full-fileset-12112007/'); ('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
c) ('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/passions/public_html/zen-cart-v1.3.8a-full-fileset-12112007/backend/'); ('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/passions/public_html/backend/');

Configure.php in includes

a) ('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/zen-cart-v1.3.8a-full-fileset-12112007/'); ('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/public_html/');
b) ('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/zen-cart-v1.3.8a-full-fileset-12112007/'); ('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/public_html/');
c) ('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/passions/public_html/zen-cart-v1.3.8a-full-fileset-12112007/'); ('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/passions/public_html/');
d) ('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/home/passions/public_html/zen-cart-v1.3.8a-full-fileset-12112007/cache'); ('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/home/passions/public_html/cache');

All the files above where changed as explained in the tutorial link list in a post above.

I also altered the following file that was not listed:

('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/passions/public_html/zen-cart-v1.3.8a-full-fileset-12112007/'); ('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/passions/public_html/');

I found that if I did not alter this file my Zen Cart admin could not be found.

However my store is not found by using the following URL

http://passionsignite.com.au/

It is only found if I use http://passionsignite.com.au/index.php

and even then it is not showing correctly. The links are all over the place, no images or background.

I have also lost all of the images that were attached to every product I have for sale. They are showing as if they are broken links under my admin section.

I don't know what I've done wrong.

I also installed Image Handler as suggested bit even that is not working correctly.

There is something seriously wrong.

Can someone tell me what I have done or what is causing this to happen.

I should just be able to enter www.passionsignite.com.au and see my site.

I hope I have explained this well enough so it is easily understood.

And I was doing so well before this. lol Now anything that could go wrong is going wrong.

[DrByte]

For your admin file, you should have been consistent in calling it either /admin/ or /backend/. Pick one or the other. Don't mix them.

For your non-admin file, you shouldn't have added "public_html" to the DIR_WS_CATALOG or DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG. Those should just be '/' instead of '/public_html/'.

[DrByte]

The tutorial really just tells you to remove the "old" foldername. In your case that would mean you should have just removed '/zen-cart-v1.3.8a-full-fileset-12112007' wherever it originally existed.

[Kayz]

Ok I corrected those things but why do I need to still enter index.php at the end of my URL instead of just www.passionsignite.com.au?