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I tried installing admintools. I've uninstalled it. Not only did it completely overwrite my htaccess file that had important data in it, it kept locking me out and despite me continually changing main.php to main-disable.php it just kept doing it, and the link to reset it didn't work either.

Tracey

Tracey,

You are correct, .htaccess Maker does replace your current .htaccess file, after making a backup copy of the original file. You can find the backup copy in the root of your site as htaccess.admintools. Any custom settings should be added to the custom fields in .htaccess Maker to prevent exactly this problem.

The most common problem with new installs is that the First Run Wizard sets a Secret URL Parameter by default. You say your IP is locked, not that you can't log in, so that suggests that the problem is somewhere else. When you get the locked IP, rename main.php to get into the back end and check the Security Exceptions Log for your IP address. That will tell us the reason the IP was locked. There are too many possibilities to guess without that information. Note that unlocking your IP address also clears the exception log, so you have to look before you clear your IP.

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