access denied on everything in admin

22 Sep 2012, 10:43 PM

#1

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access denied on everything in admin

just had to restore a backup of our store, and we are getting access denied on EVERYTHING in the admin. no matter what we click on we get "TEXT_ACCESS_DENIED"

please help

22 Sep 2012, 10:48 PM

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drbyte

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Re: access denied on everything in admin

Sounds like you're missing language files, and maybe more.

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22 Sep 2012, 10:53 PM

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califmerchant

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Re: access denied on everything in admin

SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED!

go to PHPMYADMIN, then admin table.

what worked for me was changing the "admin_id" field for the admin entry to 1. i guess zencart remembers that field and needs it the original value.

hope this helps everyone!

keywords: access denied issue on zencart, TXT_ACCESS_DENIED

22 Sep 2012, 11:19 PM

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drbyte

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Re: access denied on everything in admin

There's obviously a lot of important information missing from this discussion.

BEWARE OF EDITING THE RAW DATABASE CONTENTS WITHOUT KNOWING WHY YOU'RE DOING IT!!!!!!
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