No Admin screen

[jdub]

First...this is my second installation of osCommerce. My first installation was easy and I was up and running very quickly without any issues. Due to some other, non-osCommerce problems I was forced to changed service providers. On the new site (my second osCommerce installation), the installation seemed to go okay except for the administration screen. The database tables were created and populated with default data. The catalog screens work. But when I go to the admin link - http://206.130.104.35/admin/index.php I just get an empty screen.

 

The only difference that I can see is that on this new site I have to use an IP address for my domain name right now because the actual domain name is still on the "live" site. I don't want to move the domain name until I get the new site configured.

 

So my configuration files have -

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://206.130.104.35');

define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://206.130.104.35');

define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', '/var/www/html/'); // where the pages are located on the server

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/'); // absolute path required

define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/var/www/html/admin/'); // absolute pate required

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/'); // absolute path required

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/var/www/html/'); // absolute path required

 

http://206.130.104.35/index.php shows the default osCommerce catalog fine

http://206.130.104.35/admin/index.php is blank

[Guest]

is the ip address your dedicated ip or do you use a shared server? if so your host may have given you an alias to use.

does the catalog work?

do you have the store in /shop or /catalog?

[jdub]

I fixed the problem. I'm not sure of the specific problem but in doing some trouble-shooting I came to the conclusion that some file must be missing. After saving my admin configure.php file I copied the whole admin section over again from the oscommerce-2.2ms2 distribution. Then I put back my configuration settings and tried again....this time it worked!

It was kind of weird that I didn't get any error messages but since re-installing all of the osCommerce admin files fixed the problem, there must have been at least one missing file.