Admin page location already in use

By lowcarbkitten on 30 Aug 2003 at 12:20 UTC

My webhost uses the localhost/admin directory for the online admin tools for hosting.

Is it possible to change the URLs in the Administration area, so the admin/ directory isn't used?

When I click on modules in the admin section, my webhost attempts to open my webhost tools, which kinds of breaks Drupal.

I tried moving drupal to /drupal, so that admin would be drupal/admin, but that didn't work.

I can't actually see an /admin directory, so I'm not sure how to edit it.

I searched for this on the site, but I couldn't find anything.

If this has already been covered elsewhere, I'd like to know where.

Comments

Using admin

LuRcH@www.daihatsu-drivers.co.uk commented 30 August 2003 at 23:56

My webhost also has a control panel which u use foobar.com/admin to access. The best thing to do it keep everything relating to drupal the same but access the admin area by using foobar.com/?q=admin and it should all work fine.

Thanks

lowcarbkitten commented 31 August 2003 at 01:57

Using that URL, I get:

You are not authorized to access this page.

http://www.lowcarbkitten.com/?q=admin

but now I have that workaround, I'm noticing other pages are also not found:

http://www.lowcarbkitten.com/node/add

The requested URL /node/add was not found on this server.

Have I broken something else here as well?

Authorization

dries commented 31 August 2003 at 09:09

The "You are not authorized to access this page." message is a Drupal message and indicates that you need to authenticate first. Log on as user #1 and try again ... it should work.