Admintools from Akeeba installs like any Joomla extension.
To begin go to the akeebackup.com website
and click on the download link.
If you have subscribed
to the Professional version please make sure
that you log in first.
Now if you scroll down
past the backup products to the security products
you will see the link to download admintools to your computer.
Once that is downloaded
go to your Joomla website
and then go to Extensions
Manage, Install
Here on the upload package file tab
browse to the file that you just downloaded
select open
and admintools will be installed.
Once admintools has been installed
you will see two messages
the first says that the package has been installed
the second says
that admintools is not yet
protecting your site and you must
run the quick setup wizard.
To do that smply click on the link.
The first part of the setup is the administrator security
The first two are different ways
of setting protection to your administrator link.
The first option is to add a parameter
to the url and the second option
is to add a username and password
before you can access the Joomla login.
If you want to know about these
see the later video "Protecting your Joomla website".
I'm not going to use the secret url
I'm going to use the username and password option.
so I am going to type in my name for the username
and for the password
I will use a complex password
one that I am not using for the Joomla website.
The next options decides if you
want an email sent on
every attempted login to your
administrator. Its up to you
You might want to experiment with this for a while
before deciding if you want to keep
this feature on or not.
I am going to enter my email address anyway.
I recommend setting the next three options
exactly as they are, the defaults settings.
you can always change them later when
you understand in the Web Application Firewall.
We now reach the basic security settings.
Obviously we want to enable the
Web Application Firewall
IP workarounds is a complex
technical thing. All you need to know
is whatever the recommended setting
for your site is - is what you should set
Now we want to decide
do we want to block repeat offenders
on your site and I would assume
that would be a yes.
and now the email address that you
want to security exceptions to be sent to.
Now we get to the Advanced Securty settings.
Project honeypot is an external
service. You can find more information
about it by clicking on this link.
If you do decide to sign up for it
you need to enter the key here.
Now we come to the most important part.
Creating a secure htaccess file.
An htaccess file is a
special file that runs on your web server
that will help to protect
your website.
However in some circumstances
it may block you out of your websites.
So before you enable this
and press save I strongly
recommend that you open
up these links
in a new browser so that
you have all the information to hand
should anything go wrong.
Because I have set the password
protect admminstrator option
as soon as I save this configuration
a login box will popup
that I need to complete before
I can get back in.
So just make sure that you have
a copy of that password.
As you can see the popup has appeared
so I enter my username and
password and click login.
As you can see admintools
has now been installed.
If you are using the professional version
you will see this box asking you for
your Download ID.
This is required in order for you
to receieve updates to the program.
Return to the akeeba website
make sure you are logged in
and go to My Subscriptions.
If you scroll down you wll
find your download id.
simply select it
and copy it
return to your website
and paste it in
and click apply download id.
We now have a message about
the missing GeoIP plugin.
This is an optional addon you can
install that provides
some additional iinformation on the
geographic location of a users IP address.
It's not necessary but if you want
to you can follow this link
to download it and install it
as you would do any other plugin.
You have now successfully installed
Admintools and I recommend that you
follow the remaining videos to
find out more about the features
of admintools to protect your website.