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Internal 500 error on the Joomla Admin page after installing 5.6

The front works fine but I cannot get to a Joomla login page. I tried disabling the admintools by changing the name to main-disable.php but that did nothing.

I also read through your troubleshooting page and tried everything on there regarding the .htaccess file, the config.php file, etc. Made certain all the php memory settings were at their highest. etc. nothing has worked.

If there is an .htacces file in the /administrator folder (NOT the root), rename it.

Great. that worked and I am now in the backend. But now it appears that the firewall isn't in place. Will it still work? It completely bypassed my 2 step login process and took me straight to Joomla admin.

The .htaccess and .htpasswd files in the administrator folder provide that extra user ID and password. It makes no sense that it stopped working after an update. Those files are sensitive to the version of Apache that you're running but not Admin Tools.

You can try to re-implement the login from the Admin Tools control panel, Password Protect Administrator.

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