I may have asked about this a few months ago but I wonder if anyone has seen an issue with 5.4.5.23 and the last few 5.x versions in which the web administrator ignores the cfconfig admin password but the server context works. On the web site we get

Access is protected, to access the configuration without a password, you need to change the access to [open] in the Server Administrator

I Missed your earlier thread - sorry. I am having exactly the same issue with the same version. You can use the following workaround. 1. Set Access to OPEN in the SERVER page. a. (This does not work - it does NOT allow access to the WEB admin.) 2. Set a new Password for the web context in question.

Ha, interesting. Thank you!

I started typing and including screenshots!!! then I realised what you were asking. lets change my steps to: 1. Set Access to OPEN in the SERVER page. a. (This does not work - it does NOT allow access to the WEB admin.) 2. Set Default Password 3. Set a new Password for the web context in question. Now when you do step 3 your web context will have the default password.

I did the top one here and then clicked 'reset' for the bottom one on the web context but it didn't do anything -- still get the same error.

it doesn't show in your screenshot - but I assume you used the drop-down in "Reset Password" and chose the web context you're trying to get access to? So in mine I am resetting the password for the application in "/app/wwwroot" To the default password that I set in Step 2.

Yup

I am unsure what to tell you Sam. It wasn't working for me for a really long time - And then it just did a couple of days ago. I can only suggest you try again. That perhaps you restart the service - and then retry the process again? We're using docker containers - so killing an instance off and restarting a new one is a really quick process.

We also use docker. I'm not clear what happens when you click 'reset' -- for me it is nothing

I have "password" as the password for the "Server" context. I then use Set defaullt password - and use passPass. (pressing UPDATE) Then,| I choose the web context I want to reset in the drop down Press reset. If I log out of the cfadmin. I can log into the "Server" with "password" I can log into the "web" with "passpass"

I wonder whether it is different here because doing those exact things still results in 'Access is protected, you need to change the access to [open] in the server administrator' -- the only thing I am doing you aren't is using cfconfig to set these values initially in the docker container.