Cannot log into Admin

I have decided to make the move from shared hosting to a Dedicated Virtual Server with my hosting company... LINUX config running Plesk. New to this though, only ever done shared hosting before.

I've created a domain and setup hosting and enabled SSI, PHP (Apache), CGI, Perl and FastCGI...

I created a MySQL server instance and setup an empty database in the hosting package.

I then FTP'd the files into the httpdocs folder and did the manual install, all went fine, and VERY quick

Problem is I can't log in to the Admin side... just times out.... the front end is fine, but no admin.

Basically it just thinks about it for around 8 mins then give the error:
Notice:Error: MySQL has gone away
Error No: 2006
UPDATE currency SET value = '1.00000',date_modified = '2011-12-08 20:58:07' WHERE code = 'USD' in /var/www/vhosts/xxxxx.xxxxx.co.uk/httpdocs/system/database/mysql.php on line 49

I've checked the config.php files in the root and admin and the DIR_DATABASE entry is the same in both and the front end works fine...

Any Ideas what I can try ?

I also have a problem, as above, Help me

It's trying to auto-update currency values and the database is timing out. I'd start by disabling the auto-update and seeing what happens. You can run the following in phpmyadmin:

Fantastic !! Worked a charm... Thanks !!

Next problem is Image Manager not showing anything !!!

Oh the fun of it all !!

Hi rph,

Thanks for your solution! Works like a charm indeed!

Worked on OC1.5.3.1

Cheers and have a nice day.