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#11875 Forbidden access (Flooding)

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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 05 April 2012 14:20 CDT

Thursday, 05 April 2012 14:17 CDT

user56570
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: Joomla! 2.5.4 S
PHP version: 5.3.10
MySQL version: 5.1.49-3-log
Host: (optional, but it helps us help you)
Admin Tools version: 2.2.3

Description of my issue: Hi,
When Admin Tools is enabled and I'm doing a search with s5 live search I have often the following error message:
Forbidden access
(Flooding)

But when I disable Admin Tools, I do not have any errors.

Thanks,

lematmat

Thursday, 05 April 2012 14:20 CDT

nicholas
Admin Tools certainly does not have flooding protection. This is another security extension kicking in. It looks like something jHackGuard or a server-side protection would do.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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