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This is a solution for securing your site with .htaccess and .htpasswd_oscommerce when using resellerspanel.com and supremecenter23.com hosting.

when installing oscommerce 2.3.1 with resellerspanel.com and supremecenter23.com hosting, the provided location given is



/home/www/domain.com/



however if you change the location to the full path,



/home/users2/domain/www/domain.com/admin/



than oscommerce wont work anymore. Here's the solution which worked for me.
My configure.php files used the provided folder as mentioned above. (/home/www/domain.com/).
The site works correctly in this format, however when someone wants to secure their admin directory using .htaccess via the "Administrators page" they get a internal error 500.
So to solve this issue, heres what i did.

First, in /admin/includes/configure.php

find:
define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/www/domain.com/admin/');

replace with:
define('DIR_FS_ADMIN_FULL', '/home/users2/domain/www/domain.com/admin/');

next in the file /admin/administrators.php

Find (approx line 21):
'AuthUserFile ' . DIR_FS_ADMIN . '.htpasswd_oscommerce',

replaced with:
'AuthUserFile ' . DIR_FS_ADMIN_FULL . '.htpasswd_oscommerce',

and now when it writes to the .htaccess, it uses the full directory and leaves the configure.php files the way it should be.
hope this was helpful for someone!

NOTE: no need to download the zip file. it just contains a copy of this description inside.

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