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Hi there,

Vanilla install of 2.4 on a MAMP local server.
PHP Version 5.3.6
MySQL Version 5.5.9

Install went smoothly and I had access to the CP using the following URL

http://domain.my/system/

I decided to change the name of the system folder to “test”, and updated index.php and admin.php accordingly. After these changes, I couldn’t access the CP using this URL

http://domain.my/test/

Which gave me the following message

Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php

But, if I used admin.php like so

http://domain.my/admin.php

I had access to the CP again.

Is this expected behaviour??? I usually don’t use / rename admin.php (I actually delete it from my installs) and access the CP using just my renamed system folder URL, so that “new” behaviour really baffled me. I had to think for several minutes before thinking about accessing my CP using admin.php.

Hi jeromecoupe,

No, that’s not expected. When you say you updated index.php, which index.php did you update? The one in your web root or in your system folder? The one in the system folder shouldn’t need to be updated—just the one in your web root.

Hi Kevin,

Just edited the index.php file in the webroot as usual.

I just ran a couple of tests using another MAMP at work. Bear with me.

If you install EE and change the name of the system folder prior to running the install wizard, everything is fine and you can access the CP using both the admin.php file and by pointing to the systemfolder

http://www.localdomain.my/admin.php
http://www.localdomain.my/systemfolder/

If you install EE using the generic “system” folder, run the install wizard and then try to change the name of the folder, you can only access the CP via the admin.php file. Trying to get in using just http://www.localdomain.my/systemfolder/ throws an error at you:

Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php

1. This is using a vanilla 2.4 install on MAMP (the free version, not MAMP pro) no .htaccess or anything like that in place
2. PHP Version 5.2.17 and MySQL version 5.5.9
3. no problem for me, now that I know I have to change systemfolder name prior to running the wizard. IMHO this could create confusion for newbies.
4. Can you reproduce that on your end ? If you can, should I submit a bug report ?

same happened to me

jeromecoupe, sounds like you did some pretty good sleuth work! Yes, please file a bug report on this. It’s easy to avoid, sure, but like you said, it’s a nasty trap if you don’t know what went wrong. Filing a bug will get it in front of our devs’ eyes and we’ll work on making that a better experience.

Is there anything else I can do to help?

Hi Kevin,

Bug report filed. Thanks for looking into this.

jeromecoupe, let me keep troubleshooting with you on this. After I tried to reproduce it again, I wasn’t able to get it to fail. Must have been something else going on when I tried. From the bug thread, I see you followed these steps:

Using MAMP
Vanilla 2.4 install

1. Use the system folder to get to the installer:
http://www.test.my/system/ (I did it using admin.php as well and I get the same result)
2. Install EE with the system folder named “system”
3. I can connect to the CP using both http://www.test.my/admin.php and http://www.test.my/system/
4. Change the name of the system folder to “pouet”
5. Edit config.php (root) and admin.php > replace $system_path = ‘./system’; by $system_path = ‘./pouet’;
6. Can access the CP using http://www.test.my/admin.php but not using http://www.test.my/pouet/ The following error gets thrown at me: “Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php”
7. If I switch everything back to “system”, I can log in to the CP using both methods again.

I’m wondering if this might indeed me a MAMP-related issue. Could you try the same thing in another server environment to test? For example, if you have a CPanel setup somewhere that you could use, that should work just fine.

Hello Kevin,

Tested it on a “real” server online and cannot reproduce the problem. Probably a MAMP thing. Still, it can be pretty annoying if you don’t know what’s going on, but I guess that rules it out as a bug per se.

Hi Again,

Upgraded MAMP to the latest version. Same problem with 2.4 when renaming system folder after running the installer. Tried an install with 2.3.1. Same problem.

Since then, I have discovered that, if you restart both Apache and Mysql on MAMP after renaming folder, it suddenly works!

Sorry about that and thanks for your help.

Hello jeromecoupe,

I am glad you are all sorted.

Apache is notorious for needing a restart for configuration changes. I am glad you tried that.

Thank you for using the ExpressionEngine forums!

Cheers,