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Asked: 2026-06-09T08:34:33+00:00

I have just moved a silverstripe install to a new joyent smartos server. Not

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I have just moved a silverstripe install to a new joyent smartos server. Not being familiar with Linux, this was still relatively easy.

I am new to silverstripe as well, but the team here has developed on it for years.

I have the site up and running on the new server, but have not pointed the domain to it until we can thoroughly test it. So I am accessing it from it’s ip address. The site displays fine and the sub pages work as well. When I navigate to the ‘/admin’ page, I see a silverstripe page that states the page cannot be found (not an Apache 404). I copied over the .htaccess and the _config.php from the old server, so there should be no issues.

I have done a /dev/build with no errors and I can log in through the security page, but I just cannot get the /admin to come up. I am lost after spending the whole morning surfing google to find the answer. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE:: I installed a fresh version of silverstripe into a subdirectory on the same server. Works perfectly, so that rules out any PHP issues.

I have also tried /index.php/admin with no luck.

Thanks,

Ben

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  1. Editorial Team

    I was having this problem as well. None of the solutions I found online worked for me, but I managed to figure it out.

    I had apache running as a non-standard user, and the problem turned out to be that the webserver was unable to save session data for the logins.

    The solution in my case was to chown root.myuser /var/lib/php/session. Once done, the admin page loaded fine.

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