Looping back to Admin Login Panel when navigate to subcat

[cshepherd]

Having a problem that doesn’t seem to be addressed on any discussion forum…

My osCommerce set up is having problems with looping back to Admin Login Panel when attempting to navigate to subcategory or products through admin panel. I also have same experience when attempting to use download function in EasyPopulate 2.72 contribution.



Here’s my set up:

Shared Hosting Service
osCMax v1.7 w/the following installed additional contributions:
- Queries Debug Output v1.6 for osCommerce-ms2
- MS3 Tax Class for osCommerce-ms2
MySQL 4.0.17
PHP 4.3.10 (Zend: 1.3.0)
Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Shared SSL

I’m definitely new to PHP and not a developer, but used to be a network engineer (not a Microsoft paper MCSE!), so I can kind of hack my way around things a little.

Thanks in advance for any help you have to offer.

- Chad -

[michael_s]

You are most likely losing your session. Check the sessions settings in the admin. You may want to switch session storage to mysql. Edit configure.php in the admin/includes dir and change sessions to mysql.

[cshepherd]

Originally Posted by msasek

You are most likely losing your session. Check the sessions settings in the admin. You may want to switch session storage to mysql. Edit configure.php in the admin/includes dir and change sessions to mysql.

Thanks for the speedy response. I double checked my install, and do have session storage configured for mysql:

/admin/includes/configure.php

Line 44: define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'mysql');

Here is a snapshot of my sessions config in the admin panel;



Only odd thing, is I don’t recall having a tmp directory…

Any other ideas or method of troubleshooting?

Thanks,
- Chad -

[jacobh]

I have the same problem. Any solution?

[michael_s]

Sorry, I never use IIS, so I can't help futrher. It is something to do with the setup on IIS though. I see a lot of IIS users with the same issue. Search IIS through the forums here and at oscommerce.com and I am pretty sure you will find the solution. When you do, please post it here so we can add it to the docs for others.

[dvdsource]

I also have this _exact_ problem which only manifest itself after getting shared SSL installed. Also, the ISP is using Apache and not IIS.

There is a workaround to just double click on the link in the middle instead of using the 'Go To' jump. However, I would really like to know what the solution is.

Thanks in advance.

[cshepherd]

I started looking at file & directory permissions based on a reply from my posting on the osCommerce community forum. I couldn’t find anything out of place. However, just to be safe, I reapplied permissions to the admin folder and other files per/ installation instructions and everything started working correctly!

Don’t know what it was, but that somehow fixed things. Maybe when I changed over to SSL, the script from the hosting company that performs this change somehow trashes the permissions to the admin folder or other files.????? Anyway, the loop problem is gone for now…


Thanks again,
Chad