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#17960 Is there something in Admin Tools .htaccess that blocks access through XML-RPC to another site?

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Latest post by tampe125 on Friday, 25 October 2013 03:35 CDT

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Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? yes
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Joomla! version: 3.1.5
PHP version: 5.3
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: siteground VPS
Admin Tools version: (unknown)

Description of my issue:

I am trying to install a market place component called joobi jMarket. Apparently they have identified issues with one-click action and what i suspect is something in Admin Tools .htaccess blocking access to external sites. Can you shed any light?

This from the component developers:

Hello David,

We looked into your site.
First there was a problem with one of you r plugin, called : System - One Click Action
this plugin was changing the parameters in the URL and therefore break our URLs.

So that is the first problem solved. And it now went further.

However it seems there is some kind of protection on your site so we can't connect to the external site.
Do you have some kind of firewall on your site?
Or anything which limit access through XML-RPC to another website?

Let me know
Cherryl

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hi David,

as far as I know, there shouldn't be anything.
However, if it's just for a quick install, you could turn off all the Admin Tools features: replace the current .htaccess file with the Joomla standard one (unless you added some custom rules) and turn off the WAF protection.

Once you're done, you can turn on everything again.
Moreover, in this way you can check if there is any firewall blocking external requests.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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