Hide backend not working

Really? No one can help?

Also working on https://aseanup.com/
I tried doing some 301 redirect of wp-login to wp-login.php or not_found, as a workaround, but it doesn’t work either.

Can anyone tell me how I could do this redirection?

@florian Bansac

Just reinstalling iThemes Security doesn’t give your the expected result. You need to remove the previously added tables related to this plugin from wp-options in your data base and also remove all existing .htaccess rules except the rules written by wp core for custom permalinks.

Then only reinstall works.

If your are not familiar with .htaccess mod-rewrite rules etc. then use redirection plugin. There redirect unwanted slugs to your desired ones.

Note: whatever your are going to redirect with redirection plugin must not conflict with iThemes Security mod-rewrite rules.

Hi *B.V.Ramanarao*,

Uninstalled and cleaned the ithemes folder + database. Didn’t work.

Managed to hide the backend with a workaround using a 301 redirect in the WP format:
RewriteRule ^wp-login\.php$ https://…/not-found [R=301,L]

Hai ASEAN UP,
I can’t reproduce the problem of partial hiding mentioned by @florian Bansac.
Either there is a conflict with other plugins or something wrong with wp installation or .htaccess re-write rules, of data base.

If Hide back end is partially working, as wp-login giving access to backend and wp-login.php returning 404 error, there is something to be sorted out to avoid hacking etc.

Redirecting using Apache rewrite rules for those slugs not working with iThemes Security is not a good idea if iThemes Security has intended purpose for hide back end. If you people happy with redirecting such unprotected urls using redirection, u can do so. But it is not a permanent solution though.

I strongly recommend reproduce the same issues at your local host usng XAMPP or MAMP etc. then find what leading to such issues. And find a better solution to this.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes it is definitely not the solution we were looking for but for now it does the trick. We tried to deactivate all plugins but it didn’t work. Most interesting is that we run other installs of WP+ithemes on the same server and the “hide backend” function is working without problems.

We’ll look into more details when we’ll have more time, and keep you posted if we find the problem.