I have a website built on Joomla.Everything seemed to be going fine when all of a sudden I am noticing the following.
When I go to the administrator login page, once I fill my details and press login, I am getting a 401.shtml page with following message –
“Not Found
The requested URL /401.shtml was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_perl/2.0.5 Perl/v5.8.8 Server at http://www.shillingstudios.com Port 80″
Now as per my understanding the 401 error would mean that I do not have the authorization to visit that page or do what I am trying to do.Maybe I am not entering the correct username or password.
However,my username and password are correct.Moreover if I go back to the admin login page I find that I am logged into the administrator panel, which means that my login attempt was successful even though I was directed to 401.shtml page.
The same thing happens when I try to logout(on refresh I find that I had successfully logged out)
When I try to Save/Edit/Close an Article/Category/Section I am redirected to the same page.But in each instance I am actually able to successfully do what I was trying to do.
The only change that I made prior to this issue was installing following plug-ins:
Set Generator tag plug-in
Title Manager plug-in
I installed both plug-ins for SEO purpose from http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-a-metadata
I thought that the issue might have caused due to installing these plug-ins so I disabled them, but the problem is still there.
I am trying to setup a website for an Android game that I am developing and Joomla seemed a good option for creating my own website. However I do not have much idea about PHP or MySQL or how Apache server works.So I am not able to determine why this is happening and what can possibly fix this, so any help will be appreciated.
You could try making sure that your website URL is in the ‘live site’ field in the config.php file. That can sometimes help.