Sometimes you need to be able to import and export Admin Tools it. Some indicative use cases are:
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Backing up your Admin Tools settings before trying massive changes which could break your configuration
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Transferring your settings to another site on the same or an identical server
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Copying the IP white- and black-lists or email templates
With Admin Tools you can do that through the Export Settings and Import Settings pages of the component.
![[Warning]](/media/com_docimport/admonition/warning.png) | Warning |
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Exporting and importing very large datasets (more than a
thousand rows) IS NOT RECOMMENDED and CAN LEAD TO TIMEOUT ERRORS. This
is a limitation of PHP, namely the memory_limit (maximum memory usage
limit) and max_execution_time (maximum time to execute the page)
imposed by your server's |
Exporting Settings
In this page you can choose which settings you want to export. The available options are:
- WAF configuration
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This includes all settings in the Configure WAF
- WAF exceptions
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Includes the list of URLs were Admin Tools should be deactivated
- IP Blacklist
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The permanently blacklisted IP addresses from the IP Blacklist page
- IP Whitelist
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The whitelisted administrator IP addresses from the IP Whitelist page
- Bad words
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All the words that are flagged as spam and should be blocked
- Email templates
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All email templates from the Email Templates page
After selecting what you want to export click on the button. Your browser will download a JSON file with all of the selected configuration settings.
Importing Settings
Choose the exported JSON file and click on the button. The imported settings will overwrite your existing settings.