Friendly urls is giving me error 404 for admin access

[plusplushosting]

Well....as it say in the subject...was working ok yesterday, nothing was changed unless any cron is doing something, today im getting error 404 when i try to access admin, client side is working ok.

 

Tried to remove the htaccess but is not fixing it.

 

Any idea if this is a bug? i seed a bug in 7.2.1 but sounds unrelated to the admin area access.

 

Thanx in advance!

[plusplushosting]

ok, found the problem, if you have the admin directory protected with htaccess user/pass then is happening...now the question is, how i can protect it with htaccess user/pass and avoid the 404 error?

[brian!]

ok, found the problem, if you have the admin directory protected with htaccess user/pass then is happening...now the question is, how i can protect it with htaccess user/pass and avoid the 404 error?

if you're sure that's the cause, then submit a bug report - if it's a bug that can fixed with a hotfix (e.g only a few files need changing), they may be able to release it quicker.

[jmginer]

We have the same issue. If we remove the directory protection in cPanel, it run ok. But when we enable, the admin page return 404 error

 

[WHMCS ChrisD]

Hi Everyone,

 

I've been able to replicate this issue in my own installation and accordingly have raised a case with the development team under the ID CORE-11496 as always we will post to changelog.whmcs.com once a fix is released for this I'll also ensure that we provide an update on the forums.

[AffordableDomainsCanada]

We have been noticing this same issue, ive been removing hooks and modules over the past 48 hours trying to figure out what ive changed as there are no errors being logged in the activity log.

 

Glad this probably is not something I did..

[EdTech]

This is an old topic, but I couldn't find the answer anywhere, however, I found the solution!

This happens when you want to add extra security to the admin area in WHMCS, and you implement "password protection" to the "admin" folder, so whenever you try to access the admin area you end up getting a 404 error.

The error message is misleading, and it has nothing to do with that folder. The fact is that you are missing the configuration to handle the "401" Errors, but at the root level, so the fix is simple:

1) Just add the following line to your .htaccess file at the root level (usually /home/yourdomain/public_html/.htaccess)

ErrorDocument 401 /401.html

2) Create the /401.html file (644 permissions), also at the root level (usually /home/yourdomain/public_html/401.html) with the following contents:

Unauthorized

 

That's it. You can create a more elaborated 401.html file, but for the folder protection functionality, it is more than enough.

Good luck everyone.

EdTech

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