Janbol,
The index.php changing was strictly limited to sh404. You didn't describe how the page layout is a problem or for that matter what version of Joomla or Virtuemart you are using. I have a lot of users using the frontend access to VM administration without problems. If you can be more specific, perhaps I could help.
Harry
Hi Harry,
The combination is: Virtuemart 1.1.3 - Joomla 1.5.14 - no sh404 or SEF module installed – ya_purity template (changed the css, but testing with other original templates makes no difference. In the Joomla configuration, URL SEF is OFF, add URL suffix is OFF.
The above combination is being tested locally (Apache 2.0.59 / PHP 5.2.3 / db 5.0.41) before installing the shop on the client’s webspace.
Problem: When I access the store through the front end as storeadmin the shop appears as expected but when I click on the icon ORDERS and then try to look at the details of an order by clicking on an order in the list, the layout is compressed into a smaller area (it looks like the order is only shown in the “content” area of the site, so page elements are overlapping, the size of the middle content area of a 3-colum design and this is not workable. Firefox, IE or Safari, all show the same error.
What I notice is this: when I point the mouse over the order-details link and look at what’s shown, I see: http://…mysite…/index2.php?page=order.order_print&limitstart=0&keyword … etc
But when the linked content loads the URL shown in the browser has changed to:
http://…mysite…/index.php?page=order.order_print&limitstart=0&keyword= … etc
and the result is a scrambled layout, but when I stay on that page and manually change index.php to index2.php in the URL of the browser and reload the page, the order-details page shows up normally. The layout is still not 100% to my liking but that’s another matter.
Furthermore: it is strange that after logging in as storeadmin, looking at the “scrambled” order, then logging out and immediately logging in again, the problem sometimes goes away, until the next time you log in.
Question: so why does the page (more often than not) change from …index2.php… to …index.php… after clicking on an order link?
Hope the above explanation makes things more clear.
Jan