Admin login not working.

OK, I can enter my user name and password for logging into my admin account, however, when i click logging, it pretty much just refreshes the page.
I just installed version 1.3.7 onto my server, with dreamhost's one click install menu. I set it all up, and the store part seems ok, but I can't get past the login area for the admin at https://swatoffroad.com/cart/admin . I have my ssl both enabled, and my https:// for the server is enabled, so there shouldn't be a problem there.

I also read through a few other threads on here with similar problems, and none seem to have worked.

Thanks in advance,
Joel

SSL does not appear to be issued by an acceptable authority or is not installed correctly

try turning ssl OFF in your configure file,

No workie.

Any other ideas?

log into phpmyadmin
look in the congfigutration table and find the instance of setting recreate sessions, and set it to false,

while your there make sure that your admin username and email address are correct,

then use the forgot password and send yourself a new password,

and try it again

also completly close your browser and reopen it to clear your cache

I don't see anything about setting recreate sessions anywhere. have a screenshot, or anything useful to help a phpmyadmin noob out?

Thanks,
joel

do the admin thing first,
make sure that you are using the correct username ( case sensitive ) and make sure the email address is correct,
then go to admin/login.php and hit forgot password,

try that FIRST

not working...
It hasnt sent me an email, and if I reinstall again, I will be up to 3 times of reinstalling...

I don't know why I'm having so many difficulties...

I will be up to 3 times of reinstalling...

I don't know why I'm having so many difficulties...

with dreamhost's one click install menu.
Most of us suggest a manual inatall so that one knows what is set etc...
Not faimilar with their "one click install" if like fantastico's there can be issues that one does not know the exact settings created.

I'll try a manual install, with a new database and all.

during install, the only error I get is that I have to run PHP as a CGI script.

I'll leave it where it is till I get a response of what I should do before continuing installation.

php as cgi is not an error,
most of our servers run that way

just make sure that you DONT set the file permessions to 777 as this causes errors

aren't they 744 until you complete installation pretty much?

aren't they 744 until you complete installation pretty much?
The install looks for them to be writeable so what ever allows the check & re-check to see them as writeable is what you need during the install

Should I enable SSL for one, both, or neither the customer and admin areas?
I do have SSL up and working, my https server works, I do know that.

if the same link then you have started over... start with no ssl and get the cart & admin functioning you can later set this for SSL

Should I use a table prefix?

last time I didn't...

Also, store database sessions? Yes or no?
And the cache method. What do I do there?

prefix is up to you,
this is there on the chance that you may want to use the same DB for more than one program

as for sessions,

what we do is

1 create a folder above the root called cache
2 set permissions on it to 755
3 modify the path in the installation ( example for c-panel server would be /home/username/cache the public_html was removed )

So this

/home/jbecher/swatoffroad.com/cart/cache
would become this?
/home/jbecher/swatoffroad.com/cache
or this?
/home/jbecher/cache