UsingJoomla - Administration and Security Tools

Here is another highly recommended extension for your Joomla!^® powered website.

As you develop and administer your website you will most likely find that you need that bit more in order to make your life easier.

Admin Tools does what it says.

Administrative tools inside one package that will help you to administer your website.

Administering your website is probably quite a broad, far reaching statement, so lets narrow down a bit what Admin Tools can do for you.

Maintain - you can optimise your database(s).

Protect - the web application firewall (WAF) can help to protect against the vast majority of common website attacks.

Secure - you can change your database table prefix to a random prefix, randomise your super user id, and fine tune file permissions.

Here you can read an Akeeba Admin Tools Overview.

There are two versions of Akeeba AdminTools available:

Core version - free of charge
Professional - for a fee

UsingJoomla.com suggests trying the Core version first to give you a feel of what the package is capable of.

The Admin Tools Core version does not contain all of the features that are contained within the Akeeba Admin Tools Professional (Pro) version - you might like to see a comparison table:

The table* below compares the Akeeba Admin Tools Core version versus Akeeba Admin Tools Professional (Pro) features Akeeba Admin Tools version 6.1.8 - the latest version available as at 9^th January 2023 for Joomla 3.10.x

Please be aware that with the release of Joomla 4 - different releases of Akeeba Admin Tools are available for Joomla 4 - for Joomla 4.1.x the latest release of Akeeba Admin Tools is version 7.2.1 released on 9^th January 2023.

This comparison table will be updated according to feature changes in newer releases of the software.

The table below does not compare all features - if the feature you might be looking for is not listed here - please visit the Akeeba Backup website.

While We endeavour to be accurate

If there is any doubt about features, the final point of reference should be made directly to the

Akeeba Admin Tools product page

*Credit and thank you to Akeeba Limited for allowing the use of a Feature Comparison Table

Akeeba Admin Tools
Features	Core (Free)	Pro (Paid)
Emergency Off-line Switch	Yes	Yes
Customise permissions	Yes	Yes
Administrator Directory Protection with Username / Password	Yes	Yes
Change folder and file permissions	Yes	Yes
One click temporary files cleaning	Yes	Yes
Change database collation	Yes	Yes
Repair / Optimise database tables	Yes	Yes
Single click purge / optimise sessions table	Yes	Yes
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Akeeba Admin Tools
Features	Core (Free)	Pro (Paid)
On-the-fly link rewrite	Yes	Yes
URL Redirection	No	Yes
Scheduled cleanup	No	Yes
PHP file scanner	No	Yes
Disable directory listings	No	Yes
Protect against common file injection attacks	No	Yes
Disable PHP Easter Eggs	No	Yes
Block access to security-sensitive files	No	Yes
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Akeeba Admin Tools
Features	Core (Free)	Pro (Paid)
Block direct access to PHP files	No	Yes
Force index.php parsing before index.html	No	Yes
Optimise expiration time	No	Yes
Compress static resources	No	Yes
Redirect index.php to site root	No	Yes
Redirect www / non-www	No	Yes
Force HTTPS for specific URLs	No	Yes
Force HSTS header	No	Yes
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Akeeba Admin Tools
Features	Core (Free)	Pro (Paid)
Full logging of security exceptions	No	Yes
Email notifications of security exceptions	No	Yes
IP blacklisting	No	Yes
Administrator IP white-listing	No	Yes
Administrator URL secret parameter	No	Yes
Change administrator login URL	No	Yes
Email notification of Administrator area logins	No	Yes
Forbid front-end super-user login	No	Yes
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Akeeba Admin Tools
Features	Core (Free)	Pro (Paid)
Monitor or forbid front-end super-user creation	No	Yes
Monitor or forbid extension or Joomla configuration	No	Yes
SQLi shield protection	No	Yes
Cross site scripting block	No	Yes
Malicious user agent blocking	No	Yes
Remote File inclusion block	No	Yes
Direct file inclusion block	No	Yes
Uploads scanner	No	Yes
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Akeeba Admin Tools
Features	Core (Free)	Pro (Paid)
Anti-spam filtering	No	Yes
Hide / customise generator meta tag	No	Yes
Block access to Joomla extensions installer	No	Yes
Disable editing back-end user properties	No	Yes
X-Content-Encoded-By HTTP Header content for GZip compression customisation	No	Yes
X-Powered-By HTTP header override	No	Yes
Block tmpl=foo system template switch	No	Yes
Block template=foo site template switch	No	Yes
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Akeeba Admin Tools
Features	Core (Free)	Pro (Paid)
Project Honeypot HTTP:BL integration	No	Yes
Auto ban IPs	No	Yes
Customised exceptions	No	Yes
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This article is not so much about how to use Admin Tools but to draw your attention to its existence - UsingJoomla.com recommends that you refer to the very thorough Admin Tools user's guide.

If you find that something needs to be clarified you might want to visit the Akeeba Support Forum to find an answer to your question.

If you have a question before subscribing to the Professional version (pre-sales question) you should send a pre-sales question using the Akeeba Contact Us page.

Tip

There are a number of security packages available

General advice is not to install more than one such package

As with your PC or laptop - multiple security packages can give rise to conflicts

The Administration and Security package promoted here is highly recommended by UsingJoomla.com

Summary:

Akeeba Admin Tools Overview

Admin Tools user's guide

Akeeba Support Forum

Akeeba Contact Us page

(Pre-sales questions can be asked via the Akeeba Contact Us form).