install.php works, but admin tool won't work

[chriscollins]

Thanks in advance for any replies:

 

I used the oscdox manual and uploaded (ASCII) the 2.2 snapshot fine, uploading the /catalog and /admin directories (the second level of them) to my root folder. Then ran install.php and it worked.

 

The documentation says that the path to the admin directory should be:

/catalog/admin/

 

This seems wrong, since the /admin directory is in the root folder (public_html). I'm using a shared Linux server account with a cpanel gui.

 

Anyway, The catalog is working:

 

http://www.ccollins.com/catalog/default.php

 

but the admin tool is whacked:

 

http://www.ccollins.com/admin/default.php

 

I've tried everything I can think of in both of the /includes/configure.php files, both with the install.php script and going into configure.php manually.

 

Could the problem be anything other than the configure.php file?

 

Thank you,

Chris Collins

[nick]

The admin dir should be under the catalog dir.

 

You would access it as http://www.ccollins.com/catalog/admin/

 

Move it from it's current spot to be under the catalog dir

[Guest]

Admin folder doesn't have to be under the catalog dir, but it _can_ be. Having it in a different location, even under a different name would be beneficial for security -- if someone knows it's osCommerce, they might decide to check for an unprotected admin directory in the usual places ? shouldn't be a problem if you have secured it properly though.