Table of Contents
- The Control Panel
- The component Options
- Fixing the permissions of files and directories
- Emergency Off-Line Mode
- Protect your administrator back-end with a password
- The .htaccess maker
- The NginX configuration maker
- The web.config maker
- Web Application Firewall
- Database tools
- The PHP File Scanner
- SEO and Link Tools
- URL Redirection
- Cleaning your temporary files directory
- Protecting Admin Tools with a password
- Import and Exporting Settings
- Access Control
- The "System - Admin Tools" plugin
- Rescue Mode
- Troubleshooting guide
- Administrator password protection issues
- New Super Users are blocked and deactivated after login
- Can not create or edit Managers, Administrators, Super Administrators using Admin Tools (403 error thrown)
- Locked out of my site after applying a .htaccess using Admin Tools' .htaccess Maker
- Admin Tools' Web Application Firewall (WAF) locked you out of your site
- My components, modules or templates stopped working after using Admin Tools .htaccess Maker and how to determine and apply exceptions
- I created a .htaccess file on my main site and I can't access my other domains on the same account
- The administrator secret URL parameter is not working
- There are too many security exceptions. Should I be worried?
The main page of the component which gives you access to all of its functions is called the Control Panel.
The Control Panel page
The Control Panel is split in three areas, a top area, the left-hand control panel icons and the right-hand information boxes.
If there is an update available, you will see the information about it at the very top of the page. Click on the Update button to go to the Joomla! extensions update page where you can install the update.
In the left hand area you have icons which launch the individual tools out of which Admin Tools is made when clicked. Each of those tools is described in a section of its own in the rest of this documentation.
Clicking on the button will launch the System - Admin Tools plugin configuration page in a pop-up dialog box. In there, you can configure the scheduling options for Admin Tools' utilities. Do note that this feature is only available in the Professional edition.
The topmost right hand information pane displays the Admin Tools version information. You can see the version of the software, as well as force-reload the update information for Admin Tools itself. The latter is only necessary if there was an update released in the last 24 hours and your copy of Admin Tools has not "seen" it yet.
Below that you will see the graphs showing the number of blocked requests logged (potential attacks Admin Tools Professional has protected you against), their distributions by type and a few statistics about them, e.g. how many requests were blocked in the last year, month, week, day and so on.