Cannot log in – redirects to homepage

Glad it worked out for you heartharmony.
When you go through the settings, it will add more code into htaccess file. But it should work as advertised though.

Hi there,
I found my solution. If you update from 3.6.6 to 4.0.10, maybe you will get problem like me. So do this.
1. Rename old version BWPS from your hosting with filezilla or etc. (from better-wp-security to better-wp-securityx)
2. Now you can login to your dashboard. So, delete your plugin from plugin page.
3. Truncate the bwps table from your cpanel (with phpmyadmin).
4. Download the older version, https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/better-wp-security.4.0.0.zip
5. Install the better-wp-security.4.0.0.zip from your plugin page.
6. Check your setting.
7. Update to latest.
8. Your WP and your smile coming up ??

I went into my cPanel then file manager located the plugin and deleted it – it worked! Thanks to help here I was able to do this and resolve not being able to login to my site which was really freaking me out (nothing like this ever happened – yes bit of a newbie). I sent in a bug report to iThemes on this and am interested in how long if ever it takes them to respond.

I bought a multi site license for backupbuddy previously – interested to see if that helps me get an answer from the devs.

I haven’t been very impressed how they have handled this based on what I have seen here.

I posted this over here but thought it would be helpful on this thread as well.

I ran into the same problem this morning, specifically with the hide backend option.

After reading through and seeing there was a “reset” required, I disabled that option. The setting remained in my .htaccess of course, but with the option disabled (.htaccess unchanged) I was able to login at my hidden URL. Upon enabling that setting once more it works as expected.

Hope this is helpful. Simple fix for me.

Update to 4.0.16. The issue was a result of a time zone mismatch that I frankly missed under all my test conditions. 4.0.16 matched the date equalizer to the correct time zone.

Just installed 4.0.16, now m facing same problem, earlier i was not facing this problem.

Is anyone else being redirected to a “https” version of the home page which comes up with a 404?

Not Found

The requested URL /wp-admin/ was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I have no access to my back end to do any reset, even after renaming the plugin. It is disabled but the Admin is locked down with this https redirect to a 404.

The front end of the site is fine, I just have no access to admin.

What now?

Evidently iThemes has locked down their forums and will not allow me to post anything on the iThemes Security / Better Security forum, even though I have been a member of their forums for well over 5 years.

This does not bode well for the idea that iThemes is a company that supports long time users.

The update came and we implemented it, we have the plugin because we paid for it (at least we paid once for it). we should have access to support when the updates issued by the developer breaks our sites like this!

Ok, I found the issue with my installation, for those who are redirected to a secure https:// yoururl white 404 message – this is what I found and did.

1.) Using Cpanel File manager : Renamed the plugin folder
2.) checked .htaccess for any security code (I found none)
2.) checked wp-config.php and here I did find the following code at the top of the page:

define( 'FORCE_SSL_LOGIN', true );
define( 'FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true );
define( 'DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true );

I removed these three lines of code, saved the file and I then had my standard WordPress login screen back.

I logged in as normal, proceeded to my plugins directory and IMMEDIATELY DELETED iThemes Security.

Never to be installed again….

Good Day!

Yes, I found it amazing that they keep updating the plugin over the last few days but still cannot resolve this problem. After this bad experience and their bad attitude, I have decided to delete this plugin and will never use it again.

Oppess.,

sorry,

i was trying to access my admin area at Away Mode duration,

every thing is working fine…

Hey All,

If you’re still experiencing issues could you please update to v4.0.21? There have been many fixes.

Thanks,

Gerroald

Gerroald…?

When we update your plugin, we get completely shut out of our websites. Please explain why we would go through that again when it takes you days to respond to the issues that have been presented here by multiple users. Some who paid for iThemes pluginbuddy memberships and still have no access to the ithemes forums to get some sort of support for issues when you update a security plugin without testing same.

I updated my website today (all the plugins and WP core) and I got this error. So I don’t think it is really fixed.

having the same issue with 4.0.23

Didn’t know what was happening with my website, restored an old version, activated 4.0.23, can’t login…

Hope you can fix this soon