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#11052 Admin screen has dissapeared

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Latest post by nicholas on Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:41 CST

Friday, 10 February 2012 23:46 CST

user57366
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? yes
Joomla! version: 2.51
PHP version: I think 5.2.
MySQL version: MySQli
Host: site5.com
Admin Tools version: latest

Description of my issue:
I had purchased the component yesterday. My live site is on joomla 1.5 and it was hacked. I am denied access to the administrator login page.
I migrated to joomla 2.5 making the installation in public_html folder. Everything was working well with this installation and I installed the admintoolspro in the hope that the new installation shall not be hacked into. However now even in the new joomla 2.5 installation the administrator login page is not accessible. All resolve to site.com

Saturday, 11 February 2012 03:41 CST

nicholas
Hello my friend,

I believe that you have enabled the administrator secret URL parameter in Admin Tools and that's why it's kicking you out.

The easiest way to work around this issue is using an FTP application or your hosting control panel's File Manager to rename a file.

Go inside the plugins/system/admintools directory on your site. You will see a file named main.php. Rename it to main-disable.php. This will turn disable the Web Application Firewall from executing and you can access your site's back-end again. After you have fixed the cause of your issue remember to rename main-disable.php back to main.php, otherwise your site will remain unprotected!

Now that you have access back to your site's control panel, let's fix the problem.

Go to Extensions, Admin Tools, Web Application Firewall, Configure WAF. Note down the contents of the "Administrator secret URL parameter". Please note that it should consist only of letters a-z (without accents or diacritical marks) and numbers 0-9. For the sake of this example, let's say it reads test.Also set "Administrator secret URL parameter" to No.

Log out of your site's back-end. Using FTP, rename the main-disable.php file back to main.php. Now, in order to access your site's administrator log in page you need a URL like http://www.example.com/administrator/index.php?test where www.example.com is the domain name of your site and test is your Administrator secret URL parameter.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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