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Joomla! version: 2.5.4
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Admin Tools version: 2.2.6

Description of my issue:

Hi Nicholas,

I'm using Gtranslate Enterprise with aliasnames of my website. The translated pages are hosted on the server of Gtranslate. To prevent blocking the ip-adress of Gtranslate I've defined it in WAF (in the fields of "Bad Behaviour integration" and "Autoban Recidivists" and also seperate in the "Administrator IP Whitelist".
This works great for several months but last night translated pages become unreachable with the message “The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.”
After long search and contact with Gtranslate and my webshoster I found out that the ip-adress was blocked in the automatic blocking list with blocking-reason "login-faillure" on the ip-adres.

How is this possible and how can I prevend that this happens again?

Greetings, Paul

Hi Nicholas,

I'm positive the ip-adress is from the Gtranslate-server. A pingcheck of a translated aliasname like en.mywebsite.com or fr.mywebsite.com resolves directly to the Gtranslate server with that ip-adress.
I've also double checked that the IP-adress is defined in the WAF and in the Administrator White List.

All translated text is hosted on the GTranslate server. It's possible to login to the Gtranslateserver for editting the translations. I have to do this in a internetbrowser with a special command in addition to the url of a translated page, like http://en.mywebsite.com/?language_edit=1.
Anyone else can try that also but before saving a translation you have to know the username and password. Maybe some funny guy have tried this and Admin Tools just did his work?

I follow your advice and disable the "treat failed logins as security exceptions" feature in the Configure WAF page.

Thanks for your advice.

Greetings, Paul