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#28242 Administrator secret URL parameter - your opinion

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 09 August 2017 00:14 CDT

Tuesday, 08 August 2017 15:28 CDT

joomleb
Hi guys,
When the restoration finish I can click on "Visit your site's back-end" that always link to mysite.com/administrator.

This even if it is a Backup made to a site that have installed Admin Tools where I set the Configure WAF > Basic Protection Features > Administrator secret URL parameter

Would not be a good thing that Kickstart can read this configuration and link directly to the correct administrator url like mysite/administrator/?forExample ?!?

What do you think about ?

Many Thanks for your attention

Wednesday, 09 August 2017 00:14 CDT

nicholas
No, that creates a hard dependency between the archive extraction script, the restoration script and Admin Tools. These are three completely unrelated products. This cause a lot of major problems which I am not going to analyze here. Suffice it to say that it would cause a lot of bugs every time there is a new Joomla! or Admin Tools version and it would make it impossible for a recent version of Kickstart to extract old archives (right now Kickstart is backwards compatible to archives created all the way back in 2009).

You should just do the common sense thing and not follow that link since you know that on your site it won't work.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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