I installed the Admin Tools for Joomla! system, but for some time now there’s no way to access the administrator. I enter my domain /administrator, username, and password, and it doesn’t log in—it just reloads the homepage. This happens with several pages where I installed Admin Tools, and I urgently need to be able to access them to make adjustments to my websites. How can I completely disable the Admin Tools system or remove the part that accesses the Joomla cPanel? I don’t know if it can be done from phpMyAdmin or how it would be done since right now I can’t access the Joomla administrator.
#43450 Error Acces Admin Joomla 6.x
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Environment Information
Joomla! version
6.x
PHP version
8
Admin Tools version
7.x
Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 25 October 2026 05:19 CDT
Saturday, 24 October 2026 19:58 CDT
DiwemaMX2026
Saturday, 24 October 2026 21:58 CDT
System Task
system
The ticket information has been edited by David Perez Vilarrubi (DiwemaMX2026).
Sunday, 25 October 2026 05:19 CDT
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Please follow the instructions in https://www.akeeba.com/documentation/troubleshooter/atwafissues.html
You may want to go to the Configure WAF page and see what you've set up for the Administrator Secret URL parameter, then read https://www.akeeba.com/documentation/admin-tools/web-application-firewall.html#waf-configure-basic-protection under "Administrator secret URL parameter" to understand how to use it.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
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