administration access problem

[ReverendGuen]

I just recently had to do a massive clean out of my cpanel for my webpage but unfortunately, I suspect one of the files I wound up deleting has led to me not being able to access the joomla administrator section. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do that will get me back in there so that I can fix the broken parts of the webpage? The page had been hacked and I was locked out until I cleared up all the malicious code which left me deleting numerous files and now I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do.

[jcms]

set error-reporting to maximum in configuration.php file and check more error

[ReverendGuen]

I honestly have no idea how to do that or where to find that...someone else had set the site up for me and then bailed on me leaving me with no instructions or anything on how to do most things in the cpanel

[pe7er]

set error-reporting to maximum in configuration.php file and check more error

Yes, set in your configuration file

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	public $error_reporting = 'default';

default to 'maximum'.

Another solution:
Do you have a backup?

If not, create a backup of the current situation.
Download a full Joomla package (not an update package),
unzip on your local machine,
use FTP to upload all files (except /installation/ ) to the server overwriting all current ones.

[ReverendGuen]

I went in a changed the configuration file (the only one I could find in the public_html folder) so that it reads as follows

var $error_reporting = 'maximum';

however, it does not appear to have made any changes. When I go to the administration section of joomla I still do not get the login screen the page which displays is as follows:

Index of /administrator

Parent Directory
backups/
cache/
components/
error_log
help/
images/
includes/
index2.php
index3.php
language/
modules/
templates/

not sure if I have not changed the correct configuration file (I ran a search and that was the only one which showed up for me other than the configuration.php-dist and another one which was for kuena) Any other suggestions or directions would be greatly appreciated as this is still making me kind of crazy at this point. Thanks for the help so far it is appreciated.

[dpacadmin]

Are you running Joomla 1.5? If so set error reporting to this

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var $error_reporting = '30719';

I also see you are missing the "index.php" file in your administrator folder, try uploading a new copy and test your login.