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#16941 Locked out

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Latest post by user60792 on Thursday, 01 August 2013 13:18 CDT

user60792
Mandatory information about my setup:

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Description of my issue:

I am locked out and I used the following and it did not work. This is strange because it has always worked in the past:

The easiest way to work around this issue is using an FTP application or your hosting control panel's File Manager to rename a file.

Go inside the plugins/system/admintools directory on your site. You will see a file named main.php. Rename it to main-disable.php. This will turn disable the Web Application Firewall from executing and you can access your site's back-end again. After you have fixed the cause of your issue remember to rename main-disable.php back to main.php, otherwise your site will remain unprotected!

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
If you remove that file Admin Tools is no longer loading on your site. If you are locked out it's something else on your site locking you out.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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user60792
I found the problem, there was a .htaccess in the administrator folder. I renamed it and was able to get in.

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