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AdminTools from Akeeba installs 

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like any WordPress plugin.

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To begin go to the akeebackup.com website

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and click on the download link.

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If you have subscribed

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to the Professional version please make sure

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that you log in first.

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Now if you scroll down

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past the backup products to the
security products

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you will see the link to download
AdminTools to your computer.

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Once that is downloaded

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go to your WordPress web site

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and then go to Plugins

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Add, New.

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Click on the upload plugin button

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and then browse to the file 
that you just downloaded

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Click on the Install Now button

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and admintools will be installed.

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Once admintools has been installed

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don't forget to activate the plugin.

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You will see two messages

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The second says that the plugin has been activated

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but the first says

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that admintools is not yet

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protecting your site and you must

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run the quick setup wizard.

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To do that smply click on the link.

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The first part of the setup
is the administrator security

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The first option is to add additional

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password protection before you can

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before you can access the WordPress login.

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If you want to know more about this

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see the later video "Protecting your
WordPress website".

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so I am going to type in my
name for the username

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and for the password

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I will use a complex password

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one that I am not using for
the WordPress website.

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The next options decides if you

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want an email sent on

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every attempted login to your

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administrator.

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Its up to you

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You might want to experiment with this
for a while

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before deciding if you want to keep

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this feature on or not.

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We now reach the basic security settings.

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Obviously we want to enable the

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Web Application Firewall

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IP workarounds is a complex

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technical thing. All you need to know

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is whatever the recommended setting

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for your site is - is what
you should set.

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Now we want to decide

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do we want to block repeat offenders

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on your site and I would assume

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that would be a yes.

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and now the email address that you

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want security exceptions to be sent to.

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Now we get to the Advanced
Securty settings.

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Project honeypot is an external

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service. You can find more information

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about it by clicking on this link.

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If you do decide to sign up for it

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you need to enter the key here.

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Now we come to the most important part.

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Creating a secure htaccess file.

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An htaccess file is a

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special file that runs on your web server

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that will help to protect

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your website.

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However in some circumstances

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it may block you out of your website.

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So before you enable this

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and press save I strongly

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recommend that you open

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up these links

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in a new browser so that

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you have all the information to hand

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should anything go wrong.

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Because I have set the password

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protect admminstrator option

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as soon as I save this configuration

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a login box will popup

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that I need to complete before

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I can get back in.

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So just make sure that you have

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a copy of that password.

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As you can see the popup has appeared

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so I enter my username and password.

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AdminTools has now been installed.

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If you are using the professional version

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you will see this box asking you for

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your Download ID.

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This is required in order for you

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to receieve updates to the program.

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Return to the akeeba website

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make sure you are logged in

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and go to My Subscriptions.

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If you scroll down you will

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find your download id.

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simply select it

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and copy it

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return to your website

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and paste it in

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and click apply download id.

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We now have a message about

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a GeoIP database.

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This provides some additional iinformation

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on the geographic location of a users IP address.

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So just go ahead and update

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the counry database.

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You have now successfully installed 

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Admintools and I recommend that you

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follow the remaining videos to

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find out more about the features

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of admintools to protect your website.