No admin page!

Do you mean that you cannot access your osCommerce admin page, as in, when you try to go to your osCommerce admin page, you get a WordPress 404 error?

That’s exactly what happens.

Is /store/admin/ a real directory? I mean, does it really exist or is it being created by the store software?

WordPress 2.x assumes that any URL under it that doesn’t belong to a real folder is meant for it.

If this is the case, that /store/admin/ isn’t a real directory, open up the .htaccess file that must exist in /store/ and copy the lines that create /admin/ and paste them here. We’ll help you modify them so that they’ll work and then you’ll place those modified rules above the WordPress rules in your root .htaccess file.

OK, I talked to him a bit and here is the deal.

He has a store set up in the directory /store and the admin is in the directory /store/admin. They are really there, I checked on the server and they actually exist. One weird thing is that if you go to the store (www.4thelittleguy.com/store) it actually brings up the store, just like it is supposed to. Only if you go to the store admin page (www.4thelittleguy.com/store/admin) does it give you the WordPress 404. So for some reason WP thinks the store admin page belongs to it, but not the actual store.

2 questions: what directory is WordPress installed in and what is found in .htaccess files?

WordPress is installed in the root directory.

WordPress .htaccess (found in root directory)

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 68.166.120.50

osCommerce .htaccess (/store)

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.3 2003/06/12 10:53:20 hpdl Exp $
#
# This is used with Apache WebServers
#
# For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Options' to
# the AllowOverride configuration
#
# Example:
#
# <Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">
# AllowOverride Options
# </Directory>
#
# 'All' with also work. (This configuration is in the
# apache/conf/httpd.conf file)

# The following makes adjustments to the SSL protocol for Internet
# Explorer browsers

<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfDefine SSL>
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*"
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
</IfDefine>
</IfModule>

# Fix certain PHP values
# (commented out by default to prevent errors occuring on certain
# servers)

#<IfModule mod_php4.c>
# php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
# php_value register_globals 1
#</IfModule>

osCommerce admin .htaccess (/store/admin)

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.1 2003/06/20 00:18:30 hpdl Exp $
#
# This is used with Apache WebServers
#
# For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Options' to
# the AllowOverride configuration
#
# Example:
#
# <Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">
# AllowOverride Options
# </Directory>
#
# 'All' with also work. (This configuration is in the
# apache/conf/httpd.conf file)

# The following makes adjustments to the SSL protocol for Internet
# Explorer browsers

<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfDefine SSL>
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*"
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
</IfDefine>
</IfModule>

# Fix certain PHP values

#<IfModule mod_php4.c>
# php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
# php_value register_globals 1
#</IfModule>

AuthType Basic

AuthName "storeadmin"

AuthUserFile "/home/thelittl/.htpasswds/store/admin/passwd"

require valid-user

Was there ever any fix for this? I am experiencing this same exact problem. I can not access my OsCommerce admin directory, and my WordPress is installed in the root. Any help appreciated I am going nuts searching google/this site for a fix.

EDIT: FYI I tried to add this RSS to my Thunderbird RSS reader and it says it is not a valid feed.

I actually had this happen just between two wordpress blogs… one in the root and one under a subdirectory… I’d be interested in how to solve this problem as well…

FYI to temporarily get around this I disabled having to use a user/pass (edit the .htaccess by adding # to the beginning of the line) to get into the admin (which is what is throwing WordPress off) – so I can get in, do what I have to do real quick, then reset it.

I would love a proper fix though of course.

I used this fix for the exact same issue

https://textpattern.com/faq/173/password-protected-directories-with-htaccess