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#9809 Can't log in to site with Admin Lock

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 30 March 2011 00:49 CDT

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:46 CDT

user28657
Hi:
For some reason my username & password is not working when I try logging into the Admin Lock. I followed your advice to remove the .htaccess file and I still get the admin lock pop up. What am I doing wrong? I tested this carefully when I first placed the admin lock on and it worked then.

Wednesday, 30 March 2011 00:49 CDT

nicholas
I'm not sure which feature you're referring to as Admin Lock. I can imagine two different features, the secret query string and the administrator password protection.

I don't think it's the latter, as you have already removed the .htaccess file. Assuming that it's the former, please follow the standard and documented procedure:
- Using FTP, rename plugins/system/admintools/main.php to main.old.php
- Log in to the back-end of your site.
- Go to Components, Admin Tools, Web Application Firewall, WAF Config and disable the feature that caused you trouble.
- Logout from the back-end.
- Rename main.old.php to main.php and retry logging in. It should now work.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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