Support

Admin Tools

#37664 Uncertain of setup of Admin Tools because

Posted in ‘Admin Tools for Joomla! 4 & 5’
This is a public ticket

Everybody will be able to see its contents. Do not include usernames, passwords or any other sensitive information.

Environment Information

Joomla! version
4.2.1
PHP version
8.0.22
Admin Tools version
7.1.10

Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 04 September 2022 11:50 CDT

Friday, 02 September 2022 13:36 CDT

davedbw

I purchased the Joomla 4 Admin Tools as a package with the Backup Tools primarily to have assistance with creating a safe HTACCESS file for the site.  This a challenge for me as it pushes me into more advanced hosting details than my skill set is up for, but willing to learn.

After completing the Admin Tools Wizard I see in my public_html folder both a .htaccess file and an .htaccess.admintools file.

I'm not certain if these both should be here or I should delete the .htaccess file and rename .htaccess.admintools file as .htaccess.

I had placed the default Joomla .htaccess file prior to installing and running Akeeba's Admin Tools.

Or perhaps I should delete both files and re-run the Akeeba Admin Quick Start.

Thanks for any help on this and sorting through the fog on complexity using these new and powerful tools to protect my site.

Dave Williams

Sunday, 04 September 2022 11:50 CDT

nicholas

> After completing the Admin Tools Wizard I see in my public_html folder both a .htaccess file and an .htaccess.admintools file.

We explain that in the documentation but I don't mind explaining it further.

Every time you generate a .htaccess file with the .htaccess Maker feature we do two things. First, we rename the existing .htaccess file under the name .htaccess.admintools which is not loaded by your server. Then we create the new .htaccess file.

But why, you may ask. If something goes terribly wrong —e.g. some feature was incompatible with your server setup, you mistyped something in the custom .htaccess code fields, etc.— you can quickly go to your hosting control panel's file manager, or your FTP/SFTP client to remove the .htaccess we created and rename .htaccess.admintools file back to .htaccess on the basis that this was the last known good version of that file. This way you quickly regain access to your site, minimising the downtime.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Support Information

Working hours: We are open Monday to Friday, 9am to 7pm Cyprus timezone (EET / EEST). Support is provided by the same developers writing the software, all of which live in Europe. You can still file tickets outside of our working hours, but we cannot respond to them until we're back at the office.

Support policy: We would like to kindly inform you that when using our support you have already agreed to the Support Policy which is part of our Terms of Service. Thank you for your understanding and for helping us help you!