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#9954 Security login box appears when I click on the front end contact form. This only happens when a capt

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 15 July 2011 11:58 CDT

Friday, 15 July 2011 11:18 CDT

user42233
Mandatory information about my setup:

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Description of my issue:

Friday, 15 July 2011 11:24 CDT

nicholas
I think you tried to type the description of your issue on the title and it got cut off. Can you please post back with the details of your issue? Thank you!

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!

Friday, 15 July 2011 11:26 CDT

user42233
Sorry about that - first post..doh. The Admin Tools administration Security login box appears when I click on the front end Contact form. This only happens when a captcha element is present? Any ideas.

Friday, 15 July 2011 11:29 CDT

nicholas
OK, I understand now :) Your question is already answered in this FAQ entry (check the "I enabled this feature and now the front-end of my site asks me for a username and password?!" sub-section).

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!

Friday, 15 July 2011 11:34 CDT

user42233
OK, but that basically will leave me without a form maker (and I was getting on so well with 'smart former').

So can you recommend a contact form maker that wont conflict?

Friday, 15 July 2011 11:38 CDT

nicholas
Honestly, I think it's best to turn off the back-end password protection feature. Instead of that, you can either use Admin Tools Professional or jSecure for a back-end secret key. What this means is that, let's say, you define a secret word of "foo". Accessing the site's administrator as http://www.example.com/administrator will get you back to the site's front-end. Accessing it as http://www.example.com/administrator?foo will allow you to see the back-end login page.

The other alternative is, indeed, using a different form maker. I don't have any first-hand experience with them, but I am told that redFORM is very good, whereas some other people swear by RSForm Pro. I have used neither myself, but knowing the two companies behind them I would be surprised if they used the insecure practice of referencing back-end files from the front-end.

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!

Friday, 15 July 2011 11:44 CDT

user42233
Thanks. This information is really appreciated.

Friday, 15 July 2011 11:58 CDT

nicholas
You're welcome!

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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