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 After setting WAP firewall to ban blacklisted IPs I was locked out of the Joomla administrator area.

I tried the main-disable.php routine but that did not change and Ia still unable to get in. The regular part of the website is fine.

Plese advice if there is a way I can remove all of the admintools and configure it again.

Disabling main.php should allow you to log into the back end and uninstall Admin Tools if you wish. Since you renamed it, the file is probably still being served from a cache. The cache is probably expired by now so you should be able to log in.

Thanks for the reply. It seems it is something else, related to recaptcha and community builder:

Strict Standards: Declaration of getcbrecaptchaTab::getDisplayRegistration() should be compatible with cbTabHandler::getDisplayRegistration($tab, $user, $ui, $postdata) in /home/gurukula/public_html/nhe/resources/components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbrecaptcha/cbrecaptcha.php on line 202

Strict Standards: Declaration of getcbrecaptchaTab::getDisplayRegistration() should be compatible with cbTabHandler::getDisplayRegistration($tab, $user, $ui, $postdata) in /home/gurukula/public_html/nhe/resources/plugins/user/cbrecaptcha/cbrecaptcha.php on line 202

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class getcbrecaptchaTab in /home/gurukula/public_html/nhe/resources/plugins/user/cbrecaptcha/cbrecaptcha.php on line 202

But of course that is not an Akeeba problem.

In the meantime we have another option related to Akeeba.

If we cannot find a solution to the above I have a good backup made by Akeeba Backup from before the problem started.

How can I install this backup if I am locked out of the administrator?

Restoring is easy enough, just put the backup archive in the root of the site and extract it with Kickstart. You don't need administrator access to do the restore.

But you shouldn't be locked out of your back end. What happens when you try to log in? Are you redirected to home, do you see an error message?

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