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#9691 web firewall administrator code

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 15 November 2010 10:54 CST

Saturday, 13 November 2010 00:13 CST

user20056
so i set the web firewall administrator code and according to instructions i should be able to log in using administrator?mycode but instead i get this message and can no longer log in to my site:

Illegal variable _files or _env or _get or _post or _cookie or _server or _session or globals passed to script.

how do i turn this off to regain access?

Saturday, 13 November 2010 07:31 CST

user20056
ok. i found an old post on this and fixed it.

it seems the secret code has to start with a letter.

when i used only numbers it would not work. when i tried something like x242356 it worked

Sunday, 14 November 2010 08:02 CST

nicholas
Yes, this is a security feature introduced IIRC in Joomla! 1.5.6 in order to counter some common hacking methods.

For the record, the easiest way to disable Admin Tools' protection is to rename the main.php file of the plugin, as explained in the documentation.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Sunday, 14 November 2010 08:17 CST

user20056
Thanks Nicholas,

would it be too much work to add a "must begin with a letter" statement to the instructions that pop up when you hover over the item title within admin?

Monday, 15 November 2010 10:54 CST

nicholas
No work at all. I changed that for the 1.0.2 release :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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