I am a magento newbie.
I've observed that when I make an installation of magento by copying all contents of the extraction directly to localhost.... i.e (when app, media, skin, index.php etc all pasted directly in localhost) I am unable to access the admin by simply typing in localhost/admin.
Whereas I have to type in localhost/index.php/admin to get into the admin panel.
Also when i click on any category i have the same problem.
I have to append index.php/ before the category name to get the category link working.
Can anyone please tell me how to get them working.
Check your Base URL in the Admin Panel, go to System | Configuration | Web and make sure the Secure and Unsecure Base URL does not include the 'index.php' part.
If you do not have index.php in my secure or unsecure web configuration and this happening on front end and back end, try to enable url rewrites and see if that solves it. You need mod_rewrite enabled on your localhost.
What is your local server?
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Now, the homepage is working fine but every link on it directs you to a 404 not found error. Can't even access "/admin".
Just add "index.php" next to the domain. For ex: If your website name is www.google.com then try to access this as www.google.com/index.php/electronics/cell-phones.html
This is due to the url rewrite in magento.
Permanent solution: Go to the admin and follow this:
System-> Configuration -> Web ->Search engine Optimization -> Url Web Server Rewrites. Make this to YES and SAVE the changes.
Now clear the cache and navigate to all the page in your website.
After duplicating our web store onto a new server, copying the database over and changing the base url/safe base url in the db, all we get from the copied installation is the front page. That is, no custom url redirects work (for products, the admin panel, etc.), they all result in a 404 (and not the magento 404, the server default). Do you have any ideas what I could check out? Could there be an issue with one of the libraries included in magento?
I tried reindexing with /shell/indexer.php - which executed successfully but didn't fix the redirects.
Any ideas? Note I cannot access the admin panel via /admin because of this issue.
Edit: solution was .htaccess file missing in root directory
I added the sample htaccess file from the magento installation (I uploaded a copy in case someone finds it useful: http://sdrv.ms/13mw8Ok), and mod_rewrite was activated the next time I visited the site.
Make sure your vhosts file is setup correctly to allow mod_rewrite
Make sure your .htaccess file is setup correctly
How to enable mod_rewrite for Apache 2.2
You can access your admin through /index.php/admin in the meanwhile.
I have recently downloaded a site from my hosting server to my localhost. I have set up everything on localhost to use the local db, however when I run the frontend, the image files don't load as Magento is looking for them under https:// instead of http://, the same goes for the entire back-end. The pages load in the backend but also no styles are applied as Magento is looking for them under https://. I'm not running secure_url, only unsecure_url on both back and frontend.
Here is a screenshot of Web Inspector.
How can I fix this?
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Well, my backend is a mess, here is a screenshot of the Config->Web section, specifically the URLs:
It's always a good idea to clear out var/cache if you haven't done so already. Do you have a trailing slash on your base_url too?
If you already emptied your var/cache folder, there is one other possible source for your problem.
Go to System/Developer/ and disable Javascript Settings/Merge JavaScript Files and CSS Settings/Merge CSS Files. Then go to System/Cache and press the Flush JavaScript/CSS Cache button.
If there are no redirection-rules that redirect HTTP->HTTPS in .htaccess or httpd.conf, you can also check the configuration in Magento:
Magento Admin area: Menu -> System -> Configuration -> Web
There, too, you can configure secure/non-secure connection
By default Joomla admin URL is yoursitename/administrator. How can I change this for Joomla 1.5 so that it doesn't affect my modules and components or any other thing on the backend.
I don't think that would be a good idea, because some links to '/administator' in modules/components are hardcoded (static), so you better should use some of these plugins http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/login-protection or just try something with .htaccess (ask for password, IP filtering etc...)
Install the jSecure Authentication plugin.
Every Joomla back-end has the same URL. If you install a security plugin, you can add a suffix to your back-end URL to make it look like this: http://www.yoursite.com/administrator?helloworld
If the URL is not entered with a correct suffix, the site will redirect to a 404 (not found) page. Change the suffix regularly.
I use the changeadmin component to kind of hide the admin url:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/login-protection/14666
Here is a Simple Step(And it's not a correct method but it works for me),
Just Create a new folder in your root directory.
create index.php (or some other name) in that folder, and add the following code
$admin_cookie_code="2145446497812";
setcookie("JoomlaAdminSession",$admin_cookie_code,0,"/");
header("Location: ../administrator/index.php");
Then add the following code inside administrator/index.php . Please make sure to add this immediately after opening the PHP tag.
if($_COOKIE['JoomlaAdminSession']!= "159753987456321")
{
header('Location:../index.php');
}
Then try to access the administrator login by typing your root_joomla_address/new_folder_name. Then it will automatically redirect to your admin page. If you tried to access the default admin login page directly then it will redirect to the Joomla home page.
Hope this will works. I don't claim this a correct procedure. But if you looking to avoid a plugin, then this hack will help you.
with simple step you can restrict to access your administrator login page
Follow bellow steps:
before going through all steps first find your id address from this link www.whatismyip.com
Create a .htaccess file in administrator folder.
Now write following code in .htaccess file
<Limit GET POST> deny,allow deny from all allow from 192.168.0.1</Limit>
3.Now write your own ip instead of 192.168.0.1
4.Finally save the file and try to access your administrator page from your ip and different ip.
Hope it'll help. Thanks.
I have a magento site running locally using WAMP and it works great. However I need to create a different site so I created a folder for this new site under htdocs.
In that folder I loaded the Magento files.
Created a new database for newsite with all rights in phpmyadmin.
Went to the localhost:8888/newsite and started Magento installation wizard.
In the configuration section of the wizard I entered all the info required: db name, user, password. For URL Base I used the default (http://localhost:8888/newsite). Selected allow charts and Allow apache rewrites. Finished installing magento.
Now magento is running on newsite. I can see the front and back-end of the site.
Here is the problem: When I create a category and/or subcategory, magento does create the menu link but when I click any category, the browser takes me to a 404 not found. Upon analyzing the URL that took me there i see that the URL is : http://localhost:8888/newsite/category.html BUT by adding "index.php" into the URL (http://localhost:8888/newsite/index.php/category.html , the page does work!
So this means magento IS creating the page for the category but the linking is somewhat wrong.
Now, I've been making sure that rewrite is enabled and after all, the other site I mentioned I have is working properly, so I assume rewrite is properly enabled.
So I need help finding:
Why is one site working and the other isn't?
How can I fix this issue?
Thank you!
Sounds like you haven't copied over the .htaccess file (in your Magento root folder). You need this file for the Apache rewrites to work.