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#28731 admin login with dynamic IP

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Latest post by on Thursday, 14 December 2017 17:17 CST

Monday, 13 November 2017 01:35 CST

Rasmo
Hello, is there an option to login with a dynamic IP in the admin area? I have found a clue about the secret URL, but I can't login with it.
http://www.mydomain.com/administrator/index.php?secret_url_parameter
My IP change every 24h.

Best regards,

rasmo

Monday, 13 November 2017 02:09 CST

tampe125
Hello,

I'm sorry but you can't.
The Admin Whitelist IP feature makes sense only if you have a static IP (or a dynamic one that doesn't change very much).
In other cases it's way better to password protect the backend

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Monday, 13 November 2017 08:29 CST

Rasmo
Mmh?
Okay, I created a PHP script that save my IP adress in _admintools_adminiplist.
I call this script before login. If successful, forwarding to admin Login.
This is my workaround.

Best regards,

rasmo

Monday, 13 November 2017 09:06 CST

tampe125
Please don't do that. This is a "core hack" of Admin Tools.
If anything will change in the future, your script will break and your site could break as well.
Moreover in this way we can't offer you support (as per our Terms Of Support), since your script could cause any other unexpected bug to Admin Tools.

I strongly suggest you to reconsider this and avoid this path.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 13 November 2017 11:47 CST

Rasmo
I'm not doing it for fun! I bought the admin tools to secure the backend. But I have several users who need to login into the backend with a dynamic IP. Without turning off the Admin Tools Firewall, there is no way for login these users. Unfortunately, so it is not usable for me.
If you have a better solution for my problem, it would be great!

Thank you.

Best regards,

Rasmo

Tuesday, 14 November 2017 02:39 CST

tampe125
Again, the solution you are using will cause more harm than good: if you have dynamic IPs, you can not use the IP Whitelist feature. If the IP is inside the list, Admin Tools will be switched off: so we have to take extra care on handling this.
Anyway, using the Whitelist feature is not mandatory: most of our customers don't have a static IP and they use Admin Tools without issues. If you have a static IP, you can enhance your protection with the Whitelist, but you and your site can safely live without enabling it.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Thursday, 14 December 2017 17:17 CST

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