Page not found for admin after successful installation

21 Feb 2011, 4:44 AM

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Page not found for admin after successful installation

I have installed a fresh version of 1.3.9 on my server. When installation is successfully finished, i click the take me to admin button and i am directed to the 404 error page not found page.

I am able to access the the public url.
i have tried reinstalling several time and editing config files store and admin.
I am stumped.
I am sure it is an easy, just not sure what needs to be edited.
also i have checked the admin dir. for login.php and index.php and they are present.
any ideas?:frusty::frusty::lamo:

21 Feb 2011, 5:55 AM

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drbyte

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

It's possible that your hosting company has configured the server to reject access a folder named "admin".
And, since renaming your admin folder is one of the first recommended steps, it might be worth doing that to see if it solves your problem.
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=33

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22 Feb 2011, 3:20 AM

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3dsgiftsnthings

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

Thanks Doc
after finally being able to get to the admin area. i choose my template and all that i see is the header body is black.
you can view this here.

i have no problems with my template on my local server
all images paths are correct.
any ideas?

22 Feb 2011, 3:26 AM

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drbyte

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

So, you're saying that things are fine using the Classic template but when you switch your active template setting to your custom template suddenly things are broken?

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22 Feb 2011, 3:38 AM

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3dsgiftsnthings

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

Thats correct doc,
My template is working fine on my local server tho?
Corrupt files maybe during upload

22 Feb 2011, 3:55 AM

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drbyte

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

Quite possible.

Or bad hardcoded paths in the template files, pointing to your local server instead of being generic enough to work on any.

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22 Feb 2011, 4:04 AM

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3dsgiftsnthings

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

Ill try reupload of tempate files first.
As for the hard coded files not sure what ya mean :blush:

22 Feb 2011, 4:07 AM

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

Hard coded files? :blush: Ill try reupload of template files first not sure what you mean by hard coded lol

22 Feb 2011, 5:08 AM

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3dsgiftsnthings

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

I believe i found the problem doc. i had installed the quick layout boxes controller addon.

When boxes are enabled it cuts the body out of my site but is i leave no sideboxes enabled. i can see the body of the page. should i just try to uninstall this or is there another fix the doc can prescribe

22 Feb 2011, 6:30 PM

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drbyte

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

I'm not familiar with the details of how that addon works. If it's not working for you, then maybe it's best to remove it.

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24 Feb 2011, 6:48 AM

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

back to the page not found error again lol
I am using fatcow as my hosting service . they have simple scripts that installs zen for you i wonder if this could have something to do with the errors i have been having

24 Feb 2011, 6:51 AM

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

Many 1-click installers have proven to be unreliable.

The "cause" of a 404-page-not-found error will likely be documented in the server's error logs. Ask your hosting company to dig out that information.

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24 Feb 2011, 11:52 PM

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3dsgiftsnthings

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

ok i will do doc,
i found the problem i need to further edit the config.php files that was my problem for the page not found, but now i can view the site but it looks as f you are viewing it from ssl page gone bad for lack of better words it just looks broke.
http://www.electroniclones.com

If ya don't mind look at it let me know what ya think doc.

25 Feb 2011, 5:35 AM

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drbyte

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Re: Page not found for admin after successful installation

It's not able to load your images because the configure.php file on your server is telling it to look in the /store/ folder for everything, not the root folder where you've got the site.

ie: clicking http://www.electroniclones.com/ gives me a page whose links all point to http://www.electroniclones.com/store/

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