webmire Posted March 17, 2006 Posted March 17, 2006 I have no problems loging into the catalog admin area from my home computer, but since I am just the site designer and not the owner, the owner would like access to the admin tools to process orders and make updates to products. However, we can't seem to be able to log in from another computer. Any ideas on how to handle this? I'm not sure if it is a osCommerce issue or something with the server???
custodian Posted March 17, 2006 Posted March 17, 2006 I have no problems loging into the catalog admin area from my home computer, but since I am just the site designer and not the owner, the owner would like access to the admin tools to process orders and make updates to products. However, we can't seem to be able to log in from another computer. Any ideas on how to handle this? I'm not sure if it is a osCommerce issue or something with the server??? If you admin directoy password protected by .htaccess files? If it is, the .htaccess file may also have an entry like <limit GET> deny from variablename allow from variablename </limit> the variable name where you are connecting from. If this IS in the .htaccess file, change it to somethign like <limit GET> deny from all allow from 128.2. allow from .cmu.edu </limit> Obviously change both allow lines, one to macth your connection and the other to match the owners. My Contributions Henry Smith
webmire Posted March 17, 2006 Author Posted March 17, 2006 Ok, yes it is password protected. I will give that a try....thanks
webmire Posted March 20, 2006 Author Posted March 20, 2006 I am still having an issue with this. I checked the htaccess file and there is no code that resembles what you suggested changing. Is there something else that I can try?
custodian Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 I am still having an issue with this. I checked the htaccess file and there is no code that resembles what you suggested changing. Is there something else that I can try? How are you not able to access it? What does the error (if any) state? You should check with the host. They may have the same type of allow/deny settings in the domain name conf file. My Contributions Henry Smith
Guest Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 if you go to your host's cpanel you should be able to password protect a directory. Doing so it will automatically modify/create the necessary files for password protection. You should not edit them manually unless your host has explicit instructions. It is different from server to server.
webmire Posted March 20, 2006 Author Posted March 20, 2006 Ok...thanks...that may be the issue. We have no issues loging into the other areas of the domain from other computers....just when trying to log into the admin for the catalog. So, I am guessing that it is not an issue with the host. There is no real error message....it simply refuses the login....just keeps denying access and putting the login panel back up. There is a place on the host cp to set up pass protected areas....but I didn't do that. When I installed oscommerce it asked me to set up a login and password. But, I am now thinking that setting up that dir as pass protected might solve my problems. I will give that a try and see what happens.
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