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#42537 Logging in from another computer in my office

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Joomla! version
6.0.1
PHP version
8.3.27
Admin Tools version
7.8.4

Latest post by timpennington on Friday, 12 December 2025 12:05 CST

timpennington

Hello: I have tried to find a solution to this but can't seem to pinpoint it; the AdminTools works great on my main computer, but when I switch to my laptop to access my site at www.finishingandcoating.org/administrator I get a redirect to my home page. I am using the same IP address for both computers. I am not sure why it isn't allowing me to access my admin page on my laptop sitting nearby. I apologize if I coouldn't find this answer easily, but have tried to find it in the documents. Thank you for you assistance.

Site is www.finishingandcoating.org (staging site for www.finishingandcoating.com as I get ready to transition to Rochen from HostGator

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

You have set up the secret URL parameter. You need to use it when accessing your site's backend. For example, if your site is https://www.example.com and you have set up the secret URL parameter foobar you need to access your site's administrator login page as https://www.example.com/administrator/index.php?foobar.

After you do this once from a specific browser, a cookie is set to “remember” that you know the secret URL parameter. This cookie persists until you clear cookies in your browser, manually log out of your site's administrator (as opposed to letting the session expire after a while), or if one of the following changes: your site's URL, your site's secret, or the identification of your browser. When the cookie is set, you can access your site without the secret URL parameter, in our example https://www.example.com/administrator, without getting blocked. That's why you have no problem on your main computer.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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timpennington

Thank you! My apologies for not knowing that, but it did work.

 

Thank you again.

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