How can I temporarily disable WP Cerber?

  • Resolved Paddy Landau

    (@paddy-landau)


    3 years, 9 months ago

    I have copied my entire live website to a development area. The original website remains intact, and the new website is for me to experiment with ideas before implementing them on the live website.

    I’ve discovered a problem. After migrating, WP Cerber prevents me from logging into the development site, because of the ReCAPTCHA settings.

    How can I temporarily disable WP Cerber on my development website long enough for me to log in there, and then re-enable WP Cerber?

    Thank you

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  • Plugin Author gioni

    (@gioni)

    You can delete the wp-cerber folder, log in as usual, and install WP Cerber again.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by gioni.
    Thread Starter Paddy Landau

    (@paddy-landau)

    Thanks, but unfortunately that didn’t work. I can now enter my login details, but I get the message, “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.”

    I’m going to have to take a different approach: I’ll disable wp-cerber on the source website, copy it to the target website, and then re-enable wp-cerber on the source website.

    I don’t want to disable wp-cerber for obvious reasons, but I don’t see an alternative. Unless you can think of one?

    Plugin Author gioni

    (@gioni)

    There is no other way around, except modifying Cerber’s access list table in the website DB. And it’s even more troublesome than deleting the folder. I believe you did not delete the plugin folder somehow.

    Thread Starter Paddy Landau

    (@paddy-landau)

    No, I absolutely deleted the plugin folder. To confirm, the folder was:

    /wp-content/plugins/wp-cerber

    I deleted the entire folder. I have triple-checked now, and it’s definitely absent.

    Plugin Author gioni

    (@gioni)

    That means something else prevents you from logging in. Note that you have to use the default wp-login.php page.

    Thread Starter Paddy Landau

    (@paddy-landau)

    Thank you. I think it must be something else causing a problem, though I can’t imagine what, because this is what happens:

    1. I go to /wp-login.php
    2. I log in
    3. After login, I’m redirected to the home page instead of the Dashboard
    4. When I try to go to /wp-admin, I get the message, “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.”

    I shall re-copy the entire site, but with wp-cerber disabled before copying.

    Thanks again for your help.

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