Unique admin login problem

I did some searching around and I THINK this is a unique problem...at least I couldn't find any info on it.

I've been setting up the store ( http://store.madhouseminis.com ) over the past week or so. I've also had another test store on a different server, I never had problems with the admin until now.

Reading through the wiki docs, and closing up all the security issues before going live within the next couple days, I was in the process of changing the /admin directory to something else, I will call it '/user' for this.

I initially had problems with the configure.php files in admin/includes and /includes because I had forgot to change the permissions. Ok, so I fixed that, good to go right? wrong.

I changed all the instances of '/admin/' to '/user/' and then changed the '/admin' directory to '/user'

Essentially, I followed the directions here: http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Important_Site_Security_Recommendations (section 1.3.3).

Now the store is working (check it at http://store.madhouseminis.com ) but when I try to go to the admin, by typing in http://store.madhouseminis.com/user it says it's "opening page" yet never does anything, and I literally mean it doesn't do anything at all, no error pages come up...nothing.

This leads me to believe at least my changes did make a difference, and I am typing the directory in correctly, but for some reason the code is not working properly. Your help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Can you post your configure.php code from your admin/includes ?

Copy it, paste it, then X out your new admin name & your username & password to the DB

alright, I just tried it on a different computer, one with firefox instead of IE. I got an a error message that says: Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page. This may be caused by cookies that are blocked.

so maybe I should empty out my cookies and try it again...

I fixed it. And if anyone has this problem in the future, here is what I think went wrong:

I first found that I forgot to change one of the '/admin' to '/user', which fixed the hang up problem I was having...this is a stupid mistake, I know. I did change it a few times, but read back to the previous problem about forgetting to change the CHMOD, I guess I forgot to change it on the one that counted.

Anywho, after I did that I was having a parse error on line 46 of user/includes/configure.php

At this point I decided to just reload my backup, and start from scratch again, I got it to work. I found a problem while changing my backup which could have caused the parse error:
On line 27 and 29, where it is define(HTTPS_****...) I accidentally had a '/' at the end of the url because I did a copy/paste from my host. My assumption is that when zen-cart tried to use https it ended up being https://(secure_url)**//**directory/

So yeah, it's working now, I guess this is just another lesson as to why to quadruple check your synax if you're having a problem.

Thanks anyways, cobra!