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No prompt in back end

Item: #522
Date: 6 Jun 2003
Applies to
v3
v4
v5

Question

Why is there no prompt for a password when I log into the back end?

Answer

If you're using the lite version, there is no prompt for the back end username and password. The lite version is designed to be easy to set up and test, not to be secure. It has no login/password protection for the back end and lacks some of the other security code of the full version. For this reason, we advise not to run it on a live web site. If you do so, run it in a folder that has no links to it (and so can't be spidered by search engines) and remove it once you are done testing it.

The full version has a cookie-based security system and also an optional IP address restriction. This allows you to limit back end access to a single IP or subnet.

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