Admin lock out, unable to revert

Dear Ask Apache Password Protect Team,

I write to you hoping you can help me restore my website, which I cannot access since I installed Ask Password Protect.

My Setup is:
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Locally developed Multisite
Macbook Pro, OSX 10.11.6 ElCapitan
MAMP V 3.5
PHP 5.6.10
Apache Server
WordPress 4.7.2
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After installing the Ask Apache Password Protect plugin I was still able to access my admin area but found other functionalities and plugins that stopped working. I tried to deinstall the plugin again following the instructions below

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WARNING: If you lock YOURSELF out of your site: DO NOT JUST DELETE PLUGIN. This plugin ONLY edits 2 files. It does NOT modify other files, it does NOT modify database, it does NOT modify rewrites, just these 2 files:

/Users/Maxident/Sites/wordpress/mywebsite/.htaccess
/Users/Maxident/Sites/wordpress/mywebsite/wp-admin/.htaccess
PLEASE prepare by making sure you know how to access those 2 .htaccess files via FTP/SFTP/SSH/WebDav/WEbFTP/etc… TO FIX:

remove the AskApache Section from those 2 files and CLOSE YOUR BROWSER COMPLETELY AND RESTART IT
If that doesn’t work remove the entire .htaccess files
If that still doesn’t work check your directory permissions (normally 755) of both your / and /wp-admin/ folders.

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I did remove AskApache from /Users/Maxident/Sites/wordpress/mywebsite/.htaccess. In the other location /Users/Maxident/Sites/wordpress/mywebsite/wp-admin/ I did not find a “.htaccess” file in my case. ( neither hidden file)

Neither of it worked, I finally changed the name of the plugin folder in /Users/Maxident/Sites/wordpress/mywebsite/wp-content and was able to access my site again.

Since then I am not able to access my wp-admin area, my password does not seem to work anymore. Trying to get a new password following the “forgot password link” seems to follow through with creating a new password. But the new password does not work neither. I also tried changing my password direcly in my database via phpmyadmin, but could not succeed neither.

The next thing I tried is reverting to a backup of my wordpress installation folder and a backup of my database. After doing so I can see the site online but cannot access my admin area due to the same password issues.

I suppose there is something on the apache server level that goes wrong since reverting to my backups did not solve the issues.

Please let me know if you know how I could fix this issue or if you could point me in the right direction. This would be highly appreciated.

Best regards,
Max