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#9773 Can't password protect Admin area

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Latest post by user31068 on Sunday, 06 March 2011 07:58 CST

user31068
Hi, Just downloaded and installed ATPro

Worked thru the manual and was pleased that I could configure everything as recomended without any problems.

The only exception is that when I try to set a password for the admin area it does nothing. No error messages or blank screens just sits there. I understand that it should ask you to submit the password a few seconds later.

In my hosts CPanel I can password protect the directory so its not a biggie but I'd prefer to be able to hide it totaly via akeeba instead. I can configure the addtional name (administrator?examplename) and that works fine. Can you think of anything else I should be checking or aking my hosting co. ?

Thanks


Also, and this is a feature request / suggestion. I set the option to hide the word joomla from the html and was thinking it woulde be handy to increase this function so you could add your own list of words to hide. Kind of like the bad words list but just hiding them in the output instead of the 403 page.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
AFter supplying the password and clicking on the button, the page should refresh and ask you for your password. However, some browsers are being too smart, remember the values you filled in and don't ask you. If you want to test if the password protection works:
1. Log out of your site
2. Go to your browser's preferences and clear the browser cache and cookies cache
3. Try to access your administrator section again; it should ask for the username and password

If this doesn't work, make sure that your server is running an Apache web server. Password protection won't work on Lighttpd, Nginx, IIS or other browsers which do not understand .htaccess. Also make sure that your host does allow users to password protect directories using .htaccess.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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user31068
Thanks,

It seems to be a permissions issue. Akeeba doesn't seem to be able to write an .htacces and .htpaswd file in the admin directory (although it can write a .htaccess in the root)

Tried reseting permissions but stays the same.

If I set a password for the directory from the host CPanel then it creates an .htaccess in the admin directory. I guess that this means that the host doesn't let me do it then ?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Have you tried enabling Joomla!'s FTP options in the Global Configuration? Usually that's all it takes to work around permissions issues.

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!

user31068
OK thanks, I'll try that and if not check with my host to see if theres a reason why it might not work.

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