Unable to open store, admin works

Hello, need a little help this morning, just installed latest ZC, install went smooth, can open the admin section without any problems. When I try to open the store, it opens the login page for the admin section again.

I'm using a dedicated IP address right now as my domain name needs to stay in use until I get this store open and ready to go. I am on a windows server and installed ZC in my wwwroot directory.

Can anyone point me to a forum link or give me an idea where to look for the problem? I've found several posts regarding the admin not working but can't find anything about the store not working.

Thanks for any help.

Sounds like a problem with your includes/configure.php file. I recommend checking that there are no references to the admin in there (there shouldn't be any).

Just checked it, don't see anything in it.

Thanks

Can you provide the IP address? so that we can see the behaviour.

Here's the IP:
216.151.167.51

Thanks for the help.

For me it didn't go to the admin login at first. Instead it resulted in a blank page. Only after I had gone to the admin login did it re-direct there when I left the admin bit off.

That's significant I'm sure, but I don't know how. It does hint that this might be server-related, in which case help might be a bit thin on the ground as you're using a Windows server.

But let's try something else. what happens if you edit the debug definition near the top of your includes/application_top.php file to be true.

Ok, made that change, I'm still going to the admin login here.

That would seem to point more strongly to an issue with how your web hosting is setup. If it had started to go into the catalogue, I would have expected to see debug statements being output and any attempt to redirect to your admin blocked by a error message.

This looks as though it's not even starting to go into the catalogue. Is it possible that your IP address is mapped directly to the admin directory?

Do you think it would be better to just switch over from the windows server?

Personally I'd never put an open source app on a Windows server. irrespective of what one thinks of the merits of Linux v Windows on a philosophical or technical level, there's just much more testing and feedback about their performance on Linux, leading to a more robust experience and less kinks.

That's a bit off topic, and I can't show causality from your server to the problem, but I'd say yes anyway.

Well, thanks for the help anyway, I think I'll just change it over to a linux server and start over. I've got another one on a linux server and it installed and worked right off the top.

Thanks again

Best of luck. Come back if you need more help.