diff --git a/phpBB/admin/pagestart.inc b/phpBB/admin/pagestart.inc
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index f8eb9e7583..0000000000
--- a/phpBB/admin/pagestart.inc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/***************************************************************************
- *                               pagestart.inc
- *                            -------------------
- *   begin                : Thursday, Aug 2, 2001
- *   copyright            : (C) 2001 The phpBB Group
- *   email                : support@phpbb.com
- *
- *   $Id$
- *
- *
- ***************************************************************************/
-
-/***************************************************************************
- *
- *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- *   (at your option) any later version.
- *
- ***************************************************************************/
-
-if ( !defined('IN_PHPBB') )
-{
-	die("Hacking attempt");
-}
-
-define('IN_ADMIN', true);
-
-$phpbb_root_path = "../";
-include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
-include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);
-
-//
-// Start session management
-//
-$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
-init_userprefs($userdata);
-//
-// End session management
-//
-if( !$userdata['session_logged_in'] )
-{
-	header("Location: ../" . append_sid("login.$phpEx?redirect=admin/"));
-}
-else if( $userdata['user_level'] != ADMIN )
-{
-	message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, $lang['Not_admin']);
-}
-
-if ( empty($no_page_header) )
-{
-	// Not including the pageheader can be neccesarry if META tags are
-	// needed in the calling script.
-	include('page_header_admin.'.$phpEx);
-}
-
-?>
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