Creating a limited Admin module in another folder

[apedraza]

Hi, folks... I used osCommerce to set up a shop for someone who is, and I'm trying to be gentle, very technologically challenged. I cannot let him loose on the full Admin module or I'd be spending all my time fixing what he breaks. The only thing I need him to have access to is the Customers and Reports menus.

 

What I did was copy the whole admin/ directory to another one at the same level (in catalog/) that I named owner/. I then protected the directory with a password, and I made sure it had the same permissions (755), just like the regular admin/.

 

I go and open it up and it asks me for login as it's supposed to, however, once that's done I get this error message:

 

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /homepages/xx/xxxxxxxxxxx/htdocs/xxxx/catalog/owner/includes/functions/database.php on line 19

Unable to connect to database server!

 

Any and all help will be appreciated! Thanks... :thumbsup:

 

Andres

[bill110]

I've never done this so this is a guess. You may need to define the new directory in the admin/includes/configure.php file and also if you copied the entire admin folder then there will be a configure.php file there that you will need to change also. Don't know if both admin and owner directories need to be defined in both or which combination will work.

[apedraza]

I've never done this so this is a guess. You may need to define the new directory in the admin/includes/configure.php file and also if you copied the entire admin folder then there will be a configure.php file there that you will need to change also. Don't know if both admin and owner directories need to be defined in both or which combination will work.

 

Thanks a million! Once I edited the ../owner/includes/configure.php file so that the DEFINEs pointed to 'owner' instead of 'admin', all started working. I will now edit the 'owner' menu to have only those options I want my client to access.

 

Thanks again...

 

Best,

 

Andres