Drew Jones - Freelance Website Designer in Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 » problems http://andij.com website design and delivery Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:04:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Problems accessing admin after upgrading to Magento 1.3.0 http://andij.com/2009/04/16/problems-accessing-admin-after-upgrading-to-magento-1_3_0 http://andij.com/2009/04/16/problems-accessing-admin-after-upgrading-to-magento-1_3_0#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:58:13 +0000 andij http://andij.com/?p=280 Continue reading →]]> Having received an email from the Magento Team the other week bigging-up the latest release of Magento and encouraging me to upgrade as soon as I could, I dutifully upgraded the Mage_Core_Modules to 1.3.0.  This appeared to go without a hitch and after I made a couple of adjustments in the admin and tested the fronend I was happy that it was a successful upgrade.

The following day I attempted to login to the Magento admin area only to be presented with a 404 error!  Geez, what a pain.

After doing a bit of forum bashing I found the solution I was after:-

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/37202/P30/#t121336

For those with the same problem as mine… (can’t login after upgrade, and don’t have ssh capabilities,) I have found a workaround. It worked for me, but I can’t guarantee it will work for you, so proceed at your own risk. I am not the most tech-saavy guy, I just figured it out by looking at the error.

1.)The first thing to do is download the entire magento 1.3 package. Unzip it, and go into Magento->app->code->core->Mage->Adminhtml->Model->Url.php Grab the Url.php file.

2.)Go to your server, and into your directory where you have magento installed. go to app->code->core->Mage->Adminhtml->Model and replace the Url.php file.

3. Clear the cache in your browser and try logging in again.

4. At this point, if you were able to get in, I suggest that you go to magento connect and properly upgrade. Worked for me. I hope it works for you.

After following these steps I was able to login without a problem. -phew-

Then, to top it off the dropdown menus were not working in the admin area!  Checking Firebug I found this was due to the javascripts 404-ing.  Another dose of forum searching it was apparent that this was a common problem (I had experienced it before myself) the /js folder and contents had the wrong permissions following the upgrade.

I opened FireFTP logged into the site and changed the permissions on the /js folder and all it’s contents to 755.  This has sorted that problem, so I’m happy now.

All in all it looks like these problems I encountered after the upgrade are now sorted, let’s hope that’s the last of them and the next upgrade will go smoother.

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