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#13125 admin query string

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 01 August 2012 16:21 CDT

Wednesday, 01 August 2012 15:50 CDT

user50566
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Description of my issue: What is an admin query string? Does it mean someone has tried to login to backend?

Wednesday, 01 August 2012 16:21 CDT

nicholas
It means that someone tried to access your site's admin login page without knowing your secret administrator URL parameter (that's what "admin query string" means). Let's say that your secret parameter is test and your site is http://www.example.com. You have to enter http://www.example.com/administrator?test to access your site's admin login page. If someone enters http://www.example.com/administrator or http://www.example.com/administrator?somethingWrong they will raise and "admin query string" security exception. Don't worry, Admin Tools just blocked them from seeing your site's login page at all.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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