AdminExile

Keep honest people honest.  Add an extra layer of security to your Joomla! Administrator backend.

It's easy for an attacker to determine if your site is running Joomla!  All he has to do is add "/administrator" to the URL and look for the login panel.

AdminExile requires an additional key to be added to the URL in order to gain access to the login panel.  Without the key, any user attempting to access the administrator backend will be redirected to your homepage.

Here's how it works.

1. You pick a key in the plugin configuration, the default key is "adminexile"
2. Upon saving the key, you're redirected to your homepage.
3. Access your administrator backend by typing the admin URL plus the key:
   • http://www.yoursite.com/administrator?adminexile

This functionality used to be provided by JoomlaServiceProvider in their free JSecure Authentication plugin.  Unfortunately, that plugin is no longer free!  It has been replaced!

Did you lose access to your backend, or did you forget your access key? Use your MySQL administration tool and execute this query:

UPDATE `#__extensions` SET `params` ='{"key":"adminexile"}' WHERE `name` = 'PLG_SYS_ADMINEXILE'

UPDATE `#__extensions` SET `enabled` = 0 WHERE `name` = 'PLG_SYS_ADMINEXILE'

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