Last Updated on December 1, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla
We have been using the Adminexile extension for Joomla. This is a tool to stop brute force attacks against the Admin account on the back end.
There is a possibility that the legitimate site owner could forget the key.
You should be able to use PHPMyadmin, find the ???_plugins table and set the adminexile line to published = 0 instead of published = 1
Creator of AdminExile here…
This is the most common support question I receive, and I've come up with an easy process to recover. Because many users aren't comfortable interacting directly with their database (many have no idea how to do this) I have a process that involves only file manipulation.
1. browse using FTP (or other file manager)
2. rename the plugin file /plugins/system/adminexile/adminexile.php (add an X or something to the filename)
3. browse to /administrator and disable the plugin
4. rename the file back to adminexile.php
5. re-configure the plugin
It's super easy, and super safe.
Michael
@Michael – Thanks for that tip…. and a great tool for Joomla.