Admin Account login issues

About a year ago I created some test opencart shops on a Plesk server. At the time I was able to log into them to do the testing and upload products etc.

I have now come to re-visit the project, and I am unable to log in to make changes.

I understand that to log in, I need to go to mydomain.com/admin, but whenever I do this, I just see to standard shop front, not the admin login - I am thinking that this is because I used a different admin name, but cannot find any details of this in my notes. Whatever I type instead of admin after the domain, I still get the same shop front view.

I am able to log in to my Plesk server, so from there I can see all of the files, but despite searching for hours, I cannot find anything that would indicate what name I used instead of admin, as I feel that is where my issues lay (unless you have any other suggestions).

Any assistance with pointing me in the right direction to simply be able to log in to edit the site (or indeed find the log in page), would be very much appreciated.

Does no matter if Plesk or any other system.
Login into your server and open your database via phpMyAdmin.
There check the entries in table user - you should find your login data.

What it does not show is your password, you should have enabled the "Password forgotten" feature in the store settings.

Promostitch wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 08, 2025 11:18 pm

I understand that to log in, I need to go to mydomain.com/admin, but whenever I do this, I just see to standard shop front, not the admin login - I am thinking that this is because I used a different admin name, but cannot find any details of this in my notes. Whatever I type instead of admin after the domain, I still get the same shop front view.

To proceed, log in to your server and locate the directory where your domain is hosted—this is typically the public_html folder. Within this directory, you should find the files for your website. If you're hosting only one site on this server, all related files will likely be located directly inside public_html.

Look for the typical OpenCart directory structure, which includes folders such as a You will also find two config.php files: one in the root of public_html, and the other inside the admin directory.

If the admin folder has been renamed (e.g., to "test"), that will also change the login URL for your admin panel. For example, if the folder is named "test", your admin login URL would be:
https://yourdomain.com/test
To retrieve the username and password for the admin panel, you will need to access your website's database. These credentials can typically be found in the relevant database tables, often within the user table.

Search for any folder within your public_html containing the files index.php and config.php.

Promostitch wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 08, 2025 11:18 pm

About a year ago I created some test opencart shops on a Plesk server. At the time I was able to log into them to do the testing and upload products etc.

How much work did you do on them? If not much, could it be worth starting afresh?

Check the config.php File to find the admin path
- Log in to your web hosting control panel or access your website files via FTP.
- Navigate to the root directory of your OpenCart installation (mostly httpdocs folder in Plesk).
- Check files and folders and figure out which can be the admin folder.
- Looking at them, wpadmin looks like an admin folder. Open it and see if it contains all of these folders: controller, language, model, view, config.php, and index.php
- Open the config.php file located in that admin directory.
- Look for this line:define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://yourdomain.com/wpadmin/');
- The folder name (wpadmin in this example) is your admin URL.
- Opencart admin URL path https://yourdomain.com/wpadmin/

Read in detail at Opencart admin url

webocreation.com wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 11, 2025 3:19 pm

Check the config.php File to find the admin path

I think this user is after the admin username, not the admin path.