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#26337 Invalid Security token

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Latest post by tampe125 on Wednesday, 19 October 2016 03:43 CDT

JohnB
 Hi Nicholas,

I am in slight panic as after updating my both sites www.divemood.com and www.earthhold.com to Joomla 3.6.3 I cannot enter anymore. Already during update a received the message about insecurity token after the backup was made. After refreshing the page anyway the update seemed to be in place, but now . . .

Attempts to login from frontside give:

"The most recent request was denied because it contained an invalid security token. Please refresh the page and try again."

From the backside:
"An error has occurred.
0 Must match character set "
Followed by a button "Return to control panel" which instead brings me to the frontend.

I tried:
- clear cache and cookies
- rename .htaccess to .htaccessbak
- To truncate and repair the session table
- Put off sef_rewrite in configuration.php

On one site I was still logged into the backend and "fixed the database" and then "purged sessions" in Admin Tools. But then . . . was out and helpless.

Please help me out here as I am really stuck.

I just made a useraccount for a registered user and could give that info for you to check, but only would like to know how to send in a safe way.

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello,

do you have two factor authentication enabled?

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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