Problem renaming admin folder - v1.38a

Hi there,

I have tried to do the admin patch (change admin name) on zen cart 1.38a and after this I can not get in the admin.

I changed the file permissions as suggested but I think it is not properly changing back somehow.

Any idea's on the best fix for this..... fairly new to zen cart so not too good at this :wacko:

any help appreciated

Hi,

Are you getting any error messages? If there are no errors appearing it could be a cookie issue, clear your cookies and try again.

Regards,
Christian.

Hi there,

I just get this message here

Page Not Found
Custom 404 Error Page with Site Map Sample Text ...

I have a /shop folder so it is like this /shop/****** << new admin name

Jay76:

I have a /shop folder so it is like this /shop/****** << new admin name

Most likely you have missed something in your /shop/newadmindir/includes/configure.php file.

Regards,
Christian.

cant see how as added the new folder name to the configure php and changed the name on the admin main folder? .... strange

Are you sure you were in admin/includes/configure.php and not just includes/configure.php? (just taking a shot here, not sure how you made the changes)

As far as file permissions go, you may need to change them in cPanel as opposed to ftp.

Good Luck, hope it all comes together.

Dalton

Hi Dalton,

I followed these instructions >> https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=33

Also my web guy had a go and failed too? is there something else that needs to be done extra?

Defo the Admin > Includes folder that this was done on :dontgetit

I even copied and pasted the new admin folder name to prevent mistakes.

Does this have anything to do because I have a folder called shop then admin so looks like this .... shop>admin

Also noticed a admin.php file? any changes needed for this

No changes need to be made to the admin.php file just the configure.php file.

If you can post the contents of your configure.php file here between PHP tags then someone might be able to spot if there is a problem. Just blank out the sensitive parts with XXXs.

Regards,
Christian.

I have just edited these area's as advised;

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/shop//');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/shop/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/shop//');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/shop/');

and;

define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home//public_html/shop/**********/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home//public_html/shop/');

I have used astrix as I dont want to post this fully on the site for obvious reasons

Try This

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/mynewname/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/mynewname/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

And This

define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/mysitename.com/www/public/shop/mynewname/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/mysitename.com/www/public/');

Notice you are only pointing to SHOP in DIR_FS_ADMIN

Past this, I'm in over my head, and hopefully CJPinder can fix it for you,

Good Luck
Dalton

ok cheers Dalton... appreciate the help, sure it is something simple stopping it :D

I have tried this lots of times.... no joy, this is stupid! why not bring out a version with all the updates included i.e. the pacthes

..... I am now thinking that zen cart was a bad move

What exactly is the error message you get now? And how do you make that error appear? ie: what URL are you going to, etc?
If it's still telling you it can't find the OLD url where /admin/ is listed as the foldername, then your FTP program isn't uploading your changes, probably due to file permissions.

And, for the record, renaming your admin folder has nothing to do with whether code patches are included or not. It's just best-practice. If you can't rename your admin, then don't. But if you can't, then you probably have some other problems on your site that need addressing, or maybe it's just the file-permissions thing again.

Jay76

Sorry I couldn't help.

Good Luck

Dalton

DrByte:

What exactly is the error message you get now? And how do you make that error appear? ie: what URL are you going to, etc?
If it's still telling you it can't find the OLD url where /admin/ is listed as the foldername, then your FTP program isn't uploading your changes, probably due to file permissions.

And, for the record, renaming your admin folder has nothing to do with whether code patches are included or not. It's just best-practice. If you can't rename your admin, then don't. But if you can't, then you probably have some other problems on your site that need addressing, or maybe it's just the file-permissions thing again.

You could be right with the file permissions, dont worry about me I am just mouthing off because it aint working.

daltonkost:

Jay76

Sorry I couldn't help.

Good Luck

Dalton

Thanks Dalton

Maybe these may contain some helpful info on how to change permissions using various methods?
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=148
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=9

read that and confident everything has been done correct on the file permissions, I have cpanel access so all done via file manager

..... at a total loss, site will have stay as it is

With all the discussion above I'm still unclear about what exactly your symptoms are.

sorry I will explain... when doing the admin rename I just end up at the shop instead of the admin sign in page, I should be able to sign into the admin (new name) but I cant.

I get a error 404 page not found? but still on the shop page? ..... only way I can explain it