#6736 – Cpanel Login Redirect

Hi Tim,

This is not something you can deal with at Joomla or sh404SEF level. The handling of the /cpanel URL must be transferred to Cpanel before being sent to Joomla (which in turn will call upon sh404SEF).

I don't know how your hosting company does the /cpanel URL handling, whether they add something in your .htaccess or directly handle this in the web server configuration, but one way or the other, they have to fix it if it's not working any longer.

Rgds

Hi

The .htaccess file from Joomla or any other CMS will redirect anything that doesn't exist to Joomla index.php file.
If you add an xxx.html file somewhere, you will access it because it exists and so the redirect rules (to Joomla root index.php) in the .htaccess will not be triggered.

What you want to do is make an exception to the .htaccess rules, to redirect /cpanel to something:xxx instead of letting the regular redirection to Joomla index.php happen.

it doesn't seem possible for .htaccess to redirect to an url that ends in a port number.

I am not an .htaccess guru, but there is no such restriction. You can redirect to and from URLs with ports. google will find you multiple examples of this.

Rgds

Hi

I am confused, this should be as simple as:

Redirect 301 /cpanel http://domain.com:2083/

Rgds

Hi

That line works fine on a test machine, so if you are not redirected to the target site, it means there is something wrong in the htaccess, not in the cpanel setup
I would suggest, to confirm, that you use for instance:

Redirect 301 /cpanel https://www.google.com

I just visited /cpanel on your site, and indeed, no redirect happens. You do get a 404, but most importantly, you stay on the same page.
So despite the fact you have that line in your .htaccess, it's not running. This confirms the problem is not in CPanel, but simply in your .htaccess file.

Maybe try to put this line as the first one in the .htaccess, or remove other parts that seems unnecessary, but may interfere.

Rgds

Hi

.htaccess if working fine

Sory to be blunt, but if a simple redirect is not happening, there is something broken in the .htaccess you use.

So I added a second line under the one above - "Redirect 301 /cpanelnot http://www.basicjoomla.com:2083/" www.basicjoomla.com/cpanelnot redirects just as one would expect.

So what you are saying is that /cpanel is NOT redirected, but /cpanelNOT actually is redirected?

That would confirm something else, in the .htaccess, is interfering. Don't you have already another redirect/handling for Cpanel in your "tons of redirects and rules"?

Rgds