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#31848 older joomla and tmpl

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Latest post by on Saturday, 30 November 2019 17:17 CST

Tuesday, 08 October 2019 06:34 CDT

irbis
Hi

I am running an older Joomla website for one of my customes (who won't probably want a new website).
He says that many visitors are being blocked by the firewall.
Should I disable the tmpl? Is it safe?
Most blocked are template= in URL and tmpl= in URL

Thank you!

Tuesday, 08 October 2019 09:39 CDT

tampe125
Hello,

what's the blocked URL? Can you please paste it here?
For the template= issue, the easiest thing is to turn on the option Allow site templates inside Configure WAF page. This means that Admin Tools will allow the switch to other existing templates, blocking request to non existent ones.
Regarding the tmpl= issue, I suspect some component is using a tmpl value that is not a common one. You should add it inside the Configure WAF in the field List of allowed tmpl= keywords.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Tuesday, 15 October 2019 12:07 CDT

irbis
Sorry for the late reply. I was away. I will read your answer and check the website again and will return with info.
Thanks

Wednesday, 30 October 2019 12:14 CDT

irbis
The owner tells me that some visitors are being blocked by the firewall.
I asked for the IP addresses from a couple of the blocked visitors that are legit.
And searched the IPs in the blocked IPs list of akeeba admin tools but I cannot find those IPs in the blocked list.
Am I searching in the wrong place?
I cannot figure why they are being blocked.
Thanks

Thursday, 31 October 2019 02:13 CDT

nicholas
Remember that Admin Tools can block IPs temporarily. You won't find these IPs in the IP blacklist. Instead, search the Security Exceptions Log for these IPs and see the Target URL and Reason on each one of them. This will tell you why they got blocked. If you do not understand the Reason you can ask us. Davide will be able to assist you with that.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Saturday, 30 November 2019 17:17 CST

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