I have just installed oscommerce. whilst the catalog appears fine, I cannot get to the admin directory at all. If I enter admin/index.php, I get a 404.

A look at the logs shows that the server is trying to send /var/lib/tomcat4/server/webapps/admin/WEB-INF/index.php, rather than the file that I need.

My includes/configure.php has the correct path, so I am confused as to why this path is being followed.

I have noticed this before, about a week ago when I was installing phpDig (I ended up giving up and uninstalling the package as it is not totally necessary at this time). The admin directory was also looked for in a totally wrong place. I am beginning to wonder if there is a bug somewhere that is triggered by folders named "admin".

Any ideas?

I changed the name of the 'admin' directory to 'nimda' and now everything works fine.

But somebody does need to look into why this problem is occurring. Or has it only affected me?