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A login or logon (also called logging in or on and signing in or on) is the process by which individual access to a computer system is controlled by identification of the user using credentials provided by the user.

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Can't login to Joomla! admin updating password in PHP MyAdmin doesn't work

I cannot log into the Joomla! admin. Updating the password in PHP My Admin does not work. It always says that my username and password do not match, the user does not exist or I have not been ...
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Account activation link not working

I recently performed an upgrade of a bunch of extensions on our Joomla site (the site is running Joomla 3.8.6 and was upgraded from 3.8.5 at the same time). I tested the updates on a stand-alone test ...
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Login menu item as modal

Is there any way of opening the "login" menu item as a modal box? This would allow the user to stay on the same page after logging in. I don't want 3rd party extensions as they tend to crack with ...
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how to change urls to look like subdomains but function as a single domain?

I have a Joomla! site hosted by Rochen, and am wondering whether it is possible for me to change the structure of urls as follows. Currently my site (Joomla 3.8) has urls that look like this: www....
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User registration with confirmation e-mail

I wanted to change the default user registration scenario. My desired workflow is the following: 1.- The user enters in the "create account" form and enters all the user data: username, email, ...
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Display a menu item with Login requirement

I have made a Menu item and set its type to a 'Single Article'. I want that menu item to be displayed publically but login after clicking it to enter that article. When I have set the access level to ...
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How to code login to backend in joomla

I am making my own component in Joomla, which provides me login through an external site. Last issue I need to solve is the login. When I trigger onUserLogin event by: $dispatcher->triggerEvent('...
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How to restrict number of successful frontend logins per user

Is there any plugin for restrict number of successful frontend logins per user? I looked around but without success, and have no idea how to achieve that on the other way. Any advice? Joomla is 3.8.1
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Login module doesn't login, redirects back to home page

For whatever reason, the login module in the frontend of my website has suddenly stopped working. Every attempt to login using it just redirects back to the home page without logging in the user, ...
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login redirect to different page than given under " Menu Item Login Redirect"

I have set up a menu Item Users-> Login Form. There I set the "Menu Item Login Redirect" to Home. However the site redirects me to "/shop-pages-2/register-2/profile". My homepage does not have a shop (...
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Unable to Login to my Joomla Site

Am unable to login to my joomla site al of the sudden despite having the right credentials. I have changed the password via my phpadmin but in Vain. I tested it with wrong/non existent logins and am ...
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Change home menu title after login

Before login, my default menu title displayed with "Feature". I want to change it to Dashboard after login.
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403 Forbidden error for administrator login page

We have our Joomla setup with a .htaccess file to allow only particular IP addresses to hit our administrator area. We have several users all over the country who can access it just fine. I have ...
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Cannot login to administrator when hosted

I had a Joomla 3 website installed on my Windows installation with WAMP. Then I uploaded it to a hosting service. After changing the config php accordingly, I can see the website up and running ...
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Redirect after login by component

I have a component, which requires login. I added a text about this to the components main page. Is there a way to redirect the users to the component after they logged in? Currently all they see is ...
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Strange login form I didn't create gets shown

So I'm working on a website right now (duh) and I have a registration/login form when I click on the website. Logging in and stuff works fine, but I can for the love of god not find from where it ...
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Custom Login Component - Redirecting depends from entered data

I'm administratior of several sites and have exp. with Joomla over 4 years, mostly worked with creating websites with this great builder using different modules, but haven't a lot exp. with PHP. ...
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Joomla return URL when login sent via email

I created following URL (that I am sending via email to the user): $form->data['redirect_url'] = urlencode(base64_encode("http://www.domain.it/" . $form->data['link_form'] . "?id_risposta=" . $form-...
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Adding text to registration form

I am running Joomla 3.6 and I just want to add some informational text at the top of the registration form. I have seen suggestions about language overrides but that doesn't mean anything to me. With ...
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Register user via external script and a random password

I have this PHP script that I want to call from a mobile app, that registers an email address, uses a random password, and automatically activates & asks the user to reset the password upon first ...
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Editing the Joomla Login Form

I had installed a template from joomshaper. I'm trying to edit the login form of it. I already try to overwrite the mod_login/.../default.html file, but the form used by the template is not being ...
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Joomla 3.4.x to 3.6.4 Update and invalid security token on front-end login

I have to update a Joomla 3.4.7 site. I did first a localhost update to test - everything worked fine. But now on the live site I am not able to login in the front-end. I am getting the invalid ...
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Joomla 3.6.2 Users can't log in on the front-end. Back-end login unaffected

I have a Joomla 3.x site that I recently updated to 3.6.2. Everything was working fine, or so I thought, until I received an email from the client saying that they can't login to the employee section ...
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unable to override redirection after login

In my extension I am trying to implement the redirection after login outlined here (using the 'return' parameter): https://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_redirect_users_after_a_successful_login%3F My ...
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K2 : Redirect user after login to User Blog Page

I am using K2 extension in a website. When a user logs in, I want the page to be redirected to the user page automatically where he can see his posts. I am using K2 login module. When the user logs in,...
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Show Login Popup on Read more Restriction

I want to restrict the guest users to show full article. Once the user is logged in, then only he will be able to read the full article else introduction article will be shown. I achieved this by ...
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Change Menu after Logging In

I have a test website currently using the Helix3 Quickstart - http://helix3.financialadvisersaustralia.com.au/ I have created a new User Group and a New Menu assigned to the new User Group. When I ...
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Do you know how can i redirect anonymous users to the login page?

Some sections of my website have to be protected by a password. I made an element in the menu list (blog category) with restricted access to “registered” users. When I’m logged, by clicking on this ...
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How to Remove Joomla Icon at the bottom Admin Login page?

How do I Remove Joomla Icon at the bottom Administrator Login page? I have searched and can't figure it out. Does anyone have experience in removing this? Thanks.
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Activation email not being sent

I'm stuck with something that ought to be simple: My Joomla system is not sending activation emails when users register on the site. I've checked (and double-checked) the configuration, and I can't ...
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Admin login with url

Does anyone know how to login to Joomla administration using a URL? Someting like: http://myweb.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_login&task=login&username=user1&passwd=pass1 ...
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Can Only Log In to Joomla Backend with Emergency Root User

I'm having trouble logging in to the Joomla backend. The only way I can access the admin panel is if I add public $root_user="username"; to the configuration.php file. When I finally logged in, I ...
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Single Login to Multiple Areas

I am about to migrate a website from Adobe Business Catalyst to Joomla but one of the main items I want to check before doing this is the ability to have different "Restricted Areas" accessible from a ...
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Access Denied, what am I overlooking?

Working with Joomla 3.5.1 and having an issue with pages that I've restricted to a certain permission. I send out a Newsletter that has roughly 15 stories. The first 5 are always public, but the ...
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Change Login to Logout

I have a website using Joomla 3.5 and I currently have a 'Login' main menu item. Once a User logs in, there are some sub-menu items that appear under the 'Login' menu item. What I want to do is to ...
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User login only by password

My goal is to let user possibility to login using only password. There is any available plugin or module for that? I had a problem to find it. thanks
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Invalid token after upgrading Joomla to 3.5

After upgrading my site to J3.5, users can't login anymore. They get the "invalid token" error. I tried myself around 30 times and I also get the error, although I can login to the admin area. I ...
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The background color of my login screen turned black. How do I change it back to the default?

On a couple of 3.4.8 sites I manage, the login screen has changed from blue to black. I have found this code in the index.php file of the admin template (isis). /* Template color */ <?php ...
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Offering different content to different clients

In an Intranet I have two groups of clients, each well known by their IP address. I want to present Joomla module A for clients from both groups, module B only for the clients of group 1 and module C ...
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Can not login on Joomla administration area

I have troubles with my administrator login on Joomla 1.0. Of course it's a old version but i want to try to upgrade but i can't login anymore. I know my user is valid, because i made all the ...
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How to subscribe to a password-protected feed with Outlook?

When I open a password-protected joomla-site in Firefox, after login I can see its RSS-feed. But when I try to subscribe to that feed via Outlook, it opens a "failed to open website" window instead, ...
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Using Joomla! user account for authenticating to a Laravel application

I have been looking for readily available solutions to authenticate a user account to a Laravel application and the only things that I've come across in the general sense of authentication is LDAP, ...
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When users click "logout", where is the global variable sent to?

Joomla Version: 3.4 Possible related extension: Community Builder This is the form of a logout button on my site, the method being "post" means when users click "logout", a $_POST or #_REQUEST is ...
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Joomla 2.5 post with python to login

I´m trying to create an script to do fails logins in Joomla. I had a brutal force attack some days ago and the plugin Brutal Force Stop was failed, I have changed the database from MySQL to DynamoDB ...
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No password restrictions shown on register page

I enabled password restrictions on my site. The restrictions work, but the user gets no feedback if his password doesn't meet the requirements - he just gets redirected to the registration form ...
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"Create an account" in multilingual site

In a multilingual joomla site, in login module. "create an account" link to the registration page, works only for one language. As I understood this problem is for all unassigned components items (...
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No notification when entering wrong password in module login

On http://www.belgianpainsociety.org you can login using the module login in the right sidebar. However, when people enter a wrong password and push enter, they get redirected to the previous, but no ...
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JAuthentication: :authenticate: Failed to load plugin: plgauthenticationcookie Invalid password

When trying to log in I am seeing the following error message: JAuthentication: :authenticate: Failed to load plugin: plgauthenticationcookie Invalid password I am not able to log into the back ...
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Customize Joomla Login Page from Core

Like we can edit wp-login.php in root folder of Wordpress to customize/change its login page, I would like to know the file name and its location where the HTML form of login page is written in Joomla....
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How to execute custom php/mysql code after a user successfully logs in?

After a user logs in, I want to call a little mysql program. How and where (in what module eg. mod_login) do I place the code?
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