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#10195 Web Applicaton Firewall (WAF) Geographic blocking // Locked out of my site

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 04 January 2012 03:26 CST

user52787
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the forum before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? No
Joomla! version: (unknown) 1.7.3
PHP version: (unknown)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (optional, but it helps us help you) 1and1
Admin Tools version: (unknown) 2.2.a1


Description of my issue:
I keep getting hit with intrusions so I installed AdminTools Pro and Open Source Excellence. Neither it helping yet. I went to block all countries outside the US in the Firewall settings and then I was instantly locked out and an error like this:

Warning: fopen(//administrator/components/com_admintools/assets/geoip/GeoIP.dat) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in //administrator/components/com_admintools/helpers/geoip.php on line 343

Can not open //administrator/components/com_admintools/assets/geoip/GeoIP.dat


I checked the geoip.php and geoip.dat files in helpers and assets folders in administrator/components/com_admintools (seen below with actual URL replaced where // is)

I am looking in the MySQL with phpMyAdmin and there's nothing to just edit (ie: turn from 1 to 0, etc). In fact there seems to be only 1 of the 13 mysql tables I can even browse (admintools_storage).

Any insight is greatly appreciated.

Thanks-
Eric




https://www.akeebabackup.com/troubleshooter/atwafissues.html << THIS FIXED MY ISSUE

https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/admin-tools-docs/waf-geoblock.html

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Hi Eric,

Please take a look at this: https://www.akeebabackup.com/support/forum/admin-tools-support/500-error-accessing-waf-after-udate/55317.html#p55317

These issues are fixed in the latest dev release. If no further problems are reported today, I'm going to publish a new alpha release very soon.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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