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#16217 Admin Tools login redirection

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Latest post by sougatab on Tuesday, 28 May 2013 08:09 CDT

sougatab
Mandatory information about my setup:

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Joomla! version: 2.5.11
PHP version: 5.3+
MySQL version: 5.5+
Host: Siteground
Admin Tools version: 2.5.4

I am using Admin Tools and we have a few users who need to login to the admin backend. When we use the secret URL parameter and someone enters a wrong password, then he is redirected to the homepage (site's frontend) instead of the error message (i.e. Password is incorrect).

If we disable the secret URL parameter, then the error message is displayed properly. How can we have this feature enabled and still be able to display the error message and not redirect users to the frontend if a wrong username/password is enter in Joomla admin backend?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
This is not how this feature is designed to work. I have just tested on our own live site as well as my test sites. This doesn't happen. What you describe actually means that something's wrong with your failed login redirection. If you try accessing http://www.example.com/administrator/index.php?secret and you enter the wrong username/password you should be redirected back to http://www.example.com/administrator/index.php?secret, not http://www.example.com/administrator/index.php (without the secret word). Please tell your administrators to try using a URL like http://www.example.com/administrator/index.php?secret instead of http://www.example.com/administrator?secret to ensure that this doesn't happen.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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sougatab
Thanks. We will try this.

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