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#14515 Cannot access website administrator

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 02 January 2013 11:36 CST

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Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes (All)
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes (All)
Joomla! version: 2.5.8
PHP version: (unknown)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: Heart Internet
Admin Tools version: 2.4.3

Description of my issue:

Hi!

First of all, we wish your team a Great New Year!

We’re contacting you because we recently purchased Admin Tools Professional, mainly because one of our clients had many security problems. Everything worked fine until the last days of december when the administrator link (http://www.carpowerimprovement.com/administrator?CPI1234567) has begun to give an error (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error).

We’re trying to understand if it has something to do with your recent update or if it’s another security breach.

We tried to erase the component manually by deleting all files and folders of admin tools via ftp and we also deleted all admin tools database tables. But the result is the same: HTTP 500 Internal Server Error when trying to access site administrator.

So, if you could enlight us of this we would be very grateful.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Ricardo Carvalho (RexDot.com)

 

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

Hello Ricardo and have a happy new year!

Let's make sure that the problem is indeed caused by Admin Tools. In order to do so, try the following:

1. Try setting the Error Reporting level in your Global Configuration to "None". The equivalent in your case is editing configuration.php and settign $error_reporting to 'none'. Many errors are caused by harmless PHP Notices and Warnings being output to the browser, breaking anything which requires HTTP header manipulation such as Joomla!'s session management, AJAX calls and download systems.

2. Try to replicate the issue after disabling the "System - Admin Tools" plugin (since you have no access to your site's backend you can do so by renaming the plugins/system/admintools directory to admintools.bak; Joomla! won't be able to find the folder any more and will not load the plugin). If you can still replicate the issue, it is not caused by Admin Tools. Disabling that plugin means that Admin Tools code (including the Web Application Firewall) is not running on your site.

3. If you suspect an issue with the .htaccess file, replace its contents with the contents of the stock htaccess.txt file shipped with every version of Joomla!. If you are on GoDaddy please wait for 1-30 minutes for the changes to be effective. Then, retry loading the problem page. If you can still reproduce the error, then it is not caused by .htaccess Maker.

If doing any of the above resulted in the issue still occurring, it's not related with Admin Tools and I can't help you. In this case do post back anyway, as I can give you instructions for troubleshooting 500 Internal Server Error pages which will at the very least point you to the right direction :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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