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Akeeba backup file was not generated. The problem occurs on authentication, not the backup itself.

Description of my issue:
I use Frontend backup and works fine in several sites, running Joomla! 2.5.11, and Akeeba Backup Professional 3.7.7 (2013-05-11).

One site I updated to Joomla! 2.5.18 and Akeeba Backup Professional 3.9.2 (2013-12-27). For this site, Frontend backup fails to complete.

I tested on 2 sites that share the same server. To isolate any cron/php error, I typed the command on my browser and it worked to run backup on the not-updated site but does not work on the updated one, where I get the browser answer: 403 Access denied.

Httpd error log does not show any error. Httpd access log shows the connection request sent by cron from another server was received:
54.232.75.122 - - [08/Mar/2014:22:45:52 -0300] "GET /index.php?option=com_akeeba&view=backup&key=[erasedpass]&profile=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 17 "-" "-"

Akeeba backup file was not generated. The problem occurs on authentication, not the backup itself.

It is not firewall blocking, because I can see the Apache log the connection: Httpd error log does not show any error. Httpd access log shows the connection request sent by my other server was received, line copied from log:
54.232.75.122 - - [08/Mar/2014:22:45:52 -0300] "GET /index.php?option=com_akeeba&view=backup&key=[erasedpass]&profile=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 17 "-" "-"

I masked the above password to print it here. I guess that Akeeba Admin is blocking the request but, there is nothing on IP blocking or whatever. I do not have .htaccess file on.

I doubled checked the password before opening this ticket, but typed the same password. Now, based on you affirmative, I changed to a simple password and it worked OK.

I cannot believe I wrote a ticket about password! Sorry for that.

Went back to the old password and is working fine.

So that you know for future reference, I typed the frontend command directly on Firefox, running on Mac OX 10.7.5 and it processed the request. It takes a while to respond but completed backup and gave me 200 OK at the end. On larger sites the client-browser reached time-out but the server completed the backup.

Thanks a lot for the help