Store in root and accessing admin section

[grecopj]

Hi all,

 

I have a question concerning moving my store to the root. Right now it's in /catalog directory. However I want to make it so the store comes up when a user goes to www.mydomain.com.

 

I know I can move the files to the root and change the config files accordingly. However my issue is with my control panel for my hosting site. Right now if I enter in www.mydoamin.com/admin it takes me to my configuration page for my site. where I can enter e-mails etc.

 

If I move my store to the root, then how do I access the configuration area of my store?

 

The hosting company gave me the solution to use a .htaccess file. Is this a good thing or bad? How is that for search engines?

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

thanks,

Pete

[FIMBLE]

Think it would be expected that if you move your store to root, then your admin would go with it.

It would be no different than it is now Pete

Nic

[grecopj]

Think it would be expected that if you move your store to root, then your admin would go with it.

It would be no different than it is now Pete

Nic

Nick,

 

The reason I am concerned is that if I move it to the root, then I would have a conflict with the www.mydomain.com/admin (which is what is used to access the web server control panel now) and www.mydomain.com/catalog/admin (that would change to www.mydomain.com/admin if I move it to the root.)

 

Am I making sense?

[FIMBLE]

Yes i see, all you need do is rename the oscommerce admin folder then in your admin / includes / configure.php change these two line to the new renamed admin folder

 

 

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');

define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/xxxx/public_html/admin/');

 

its the only changes you need to do

 

Nic

[grecopj]

Yes i see, all you need do is rename the oscommerce admin folder then in your admin / includes / configure.php change these two line to the new renamed admin folder

 

 

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');

define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/xxxx/public_html/admin/');

 

its the only changes you need to do

 

Nic

Nic,

 

So far I moved everything over and renamed the admin folder to admin_store. Everything seems to be working but I can not log into the admin section of the store. It just returns the log in dialog. I've included the config files here. Can you see if I am missing something? thank you so much for your help so far.

 

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admin_store/includes/configure.php

 

<?php

/*

osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions

http://www.oscommerce.com

 

Copyright © 2003 osCommerce

 

Released under the GNU General Public License

*/

 

// Define the webserver and path parameters

// * DIR_FS_* = Filesystem directories (local/physical)

// * DIR_WS_* = Webserver directories (virtual/URL)

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.rainbowresearch.com'); // eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers

define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://www.rainbowresearch.com');

define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://hs69.order-vault.net/rainbowresearch.com/');

define('ENABLE_SSL_CATALOG', 'true'); // secure webserver for catalog module

define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', '/home/virtual/site124/fst/var/www/html/'); // where the pages are located on the server

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

define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/virtual/site124/fst/var/www/html/admin_store/'); // absolute pate required

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

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/virtual/site124/fst/var/www/html/'); // absolute path required

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');

define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'images/');

define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');

define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');

define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');

define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');

define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');

define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'images/');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_MODULES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/modules/');

define('DIR_FS_BACKUP', DIR_FS_ADMIN . 'backups/');

 

 

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includes/configure.php

 

<?php

/*

osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions

http://www.oscommerce.com

 

Copyright © 2003 osCommerce

 

Released under the GNU General Public License

*/

 

// Define the webserver and path parameters

// * DIR_FS_* = Filesystem directories (local/physical)

// * DIR_WS_* = Webserver directories (virtual/URL)

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.rainbowresearch.com'); // eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers

define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://hs69.order-vault.net/rainbowresearch.com'); // eg, https://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers

define('ENABLE_SSL', true); // secure webserver for checkout procedure?

define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'www.rainbowresearch.com');

define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'https://hs69.order-vault.net/rainbowresearch.com');

define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '/');

define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', 'https://hs69.order-vault.net/rainbowresearch.com');

define('DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG', '/');

define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');

define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');

define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');

define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');

define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');

define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');

define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');

define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');

 

define('DIR_WS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', 'pub/');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/virtual/site124/fst/var/www/html/');

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'pub/');

[FIMBLE]

Hiya

I just tired http://www.rainbowresearch.com/admin_store and it was a broken link.

You sure its the correct name Pete

[grecopj]

Hiya

I just tired http://www.rainbowresearch.com/admin_store and it was a broken link.

You sure its the correct name Pete

Nic,

 

Sorry I forgot to mention that I have not changed the DNS entries yet on this. they have a live site at www.rainbowresearch.com but that is on an older server using MIVA. I've been changing my hosts file in order to configure this site. Here is the IP if that helps.

 

64.33.80.138/admin_store

 

Pete

[joep147]

Nic,

 

Sorry I forgot to mention that I have not changed the DNS entries yet on this. they have a live site at www.rainbowresearch.com but that is on an older server using MIVA. I've been changing my hosts file in order to configure this site. Here is the IP if that helps.

 

64.33.80.138/admin_store

 

Pete

you changed the path to admin, so now it has to be changed in the 64.33.80.138/admin_store/.htaccess aswell

[grecopj]

you changed the path to admin, so now it has to be changed in the 64.33.80.138/admin_store/.htaccess aswell

Nic,

 

Thank You, Thank You, and Thank You again!

 

Made the change all seems good so far.

[joep147]

your welcome

 

Joep ;)

[grecopj]

your welcome

 

Joep ;)

Sorry Joep. I didn't look at the responder. I just was so excited it worked.

 

My thanks to you!

 

Pete