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I have problems using a particular gallery (Simple Image Gallery) on one site ( not all my sites) and was
told the problem is Admin Tools blocking the cache. See the attached. Is there any remedy for this?

Oddly it is only on my sites using PAIR hosting

Thank you

I'm pretty sure they are right, Admin Tools is blocking it. The part that Simple Image Gallery left out is that they're doing evil things, writing publicly accessible files to the cache folder instead of the media folder.

The piece that bothers me is that you say it is inconsistent. If the gallery is writing to the cache folder, Admin Tools should be blocking access, on every installation, on every host.

The solution is to tell Simple Image Gallery to write their files to the media folder, where Joomla! says the belong. The work around is to put an exception in .htaccess Maker to allow it to work as is. There is probably a SIG folder under /cache - I'm guessing here because I don't have it installed. Add cache/SIG (use the actual name of the folder) in the "Allow direct access, except .php files, to these directories" field in .htaccess Maker. Each folder there should be on a separate line.

That should do it!

The directory is https://www.mydomain.com/cache/jw_sigpro/

Could you give please me the text line that I am supposed to add to the .htaccess

I was surprised by the developer's comments and agree with you that people should not have access
to a cache folder.

The line to add should be:

cache/jw_sigpro
 

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