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#19800 Admin Tools & SSL

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Latest post by dlb on Monday, 05 May 2014 10:30 CDT

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 Hello,

I was just experiencing a flood of hacker attempts. About 165 IP's were auto-blacklisted, so awesome job Admin Tools. I was enabling a few more features in the WAF to tighten up security, one was the secret key for the Administrator panel.

It seems that that feature does not work well with SSL enabled. It would not let me login with SSL enabled. I had to to turn off SSSL via FTP on the configuration.php to get backend access again.

Is there something that needs to be configured for Admin Tools to work with SSL?

Thank you,
John

dlb
John,

Some servers require index.php to be called explicitly, for example:
https://www.mysite.com/administrator/index.php?SecretKey
Do you get to the login screen? Are you getting any kind of an error message?


Dale L. Brackin
Support Specialist


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Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!


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My time zone is EST (UTC -5) (click here to see my current time in Philadelphia, PA)

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I've tried logging in with the index.php and without. It does show the login screen, no error shows, it just loops back and clears the user & password fields.

dlb
If you are getting to the login screen then the secret parameter is working. I can't explain why you can't log in.

On the login screen, are you still on an https: address or did it switch to http:?

If you used .htaccess Maker, is the https: URL correct? (all the way at the bottom of the screen)


Dale L. Brackin
Support Specialist


us.gifEnglish: native


Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!


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My time zone is EST (UTC -5) (click here to see my current time in Philadelphia, PA)

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It was a setting on my end, all is well :)

dlb
I'm glad you got it working.


Dale L. Brackin
Support Specialist


us.gifEnglish: native


Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!


????
My time zone is EST (UTC -5) (click here to see my current time in Philadelphia, PA)

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