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#12570 Some Help on the .htaccess maker

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 06 June 2012 09:19 CDT

Wednesday, 06 June 2012 08:10 CDT

atg1967
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?)? No
Joomla! version: 1.5.26
PHP version: 5.2.17
MySQL version: 5.0.95-community
Host: buyhttp.com
Admin Tools version: 2.26

Description of my issue:

Hello there Nicolas,

I had the pleasure to see you at Joomla Greece, i just wanted to ask you this,

I have purchased Admin Tools and i have installed it on a test website i am working on. Regarding to the .htaccess maker i have added a couple of lines in the custom section. These are the lines i have added:

##### Custom Rules (Top of File) -- BEGIN
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (&|%3F){1,1}tp= [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (&|%3F){1,1}template= [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (&|%3F){1,1}tmpl= [NC]
RewriteRule ^index.php$ http%2://karavias.worldofweb.gr/ [R,L]
##### Custom Rules (Top of File) -- END

The site is running under a subdomain.

Now when calling the site and putting for example: karavias.worldofweb.gr/?tmpl=offline I get the offline page of the Joomla site.

Can you please help me and tell me what i am doing wrong ??

Thank you very much for your time.

Best Regards

Alexandros Mantas

Alexandros

Wednesday, 06 June 2012 08:32 CDT

nicholas
You shouldn't put that code in .htaccess. Instead, just go to Admin Tools, Web Application Firewall, Configure WAF and enable the "Block tmpl=foo system template switch" option. This will block this kind of direct access.

If you really (really) insist, you can put some code in your .htaccess file. First a warning: if you do that, expect that some third party extensions will cease working. That said, the correct code is this:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)tmpl=(component|system) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)t(p|emplate|mpl)= [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

as you can read in my Master .htaccess. The code you used is most likely taken from the Joomla! documentation wiki which uses a botched derivative of an ancient version of my Master .htaccess ;)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Wednesday, 06 June 2012 08:52 CDT

atg1967
hello again Nicolas and thank you for your quick response :)

I have removed the custom code from the .htaccess and opened the Web Application Firewall, I have seen that the parameters there are by default set to yes, but still i have the same issue. I have a screen-shot on how the parameters are setted.

Do i need to enable the WAF anywhere ?

Euxaristw ;)

Alex

Alexandros

Wednesday, 06 June 2012 08:55 CDT

atg1967
Nicola,

Ohhhh i am sooooo sorry, yes it does work, i just checked it myself again and it works, sorry for my previous reply.

Alex

Alexandros

Wednesday, 06 June 2012 09:19 CDT

nicholas
No problem! I guess we can close this ticket?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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