Password protected pages

Hi Chris, Can you elaborate the following please? What page are you referring to?

it appears to be completely blocking password protected pages

The brute force attack prevention feature blocks access to any “wp-admin” pages unless the special cookie is present. Is your protected page doing something on the “wp-admin” side?

Hi there. Thanks for the quick reply. I created a page (not a post – haven’t tried that yet) called “test” and set it to be password protected (rather than public or private) The only content was the word test. Logged out as admin, tried to access the specific page (for which I’d set a unique password) (not logged in) and got bounced to the URL I had set up on the brute force (firewall) page (the one you’d indicated – can’t remember the IP offhand) This wasn’t a wp-admin page, but one which would be visible to anyone.

When I turned off the the brute force option I was able to input the password and access the page.

Hope this helps!
Cheers
Chris

Hi Chris,
We’ve just reproduced what you are referring to and have also identified a fix for this which will be available in the next version.

Thanks very much. Love the plugin, and the fix will make it perfect for me, as I use the page password a lot with clients.

Cheers
Chris

Same problem here.

Peter: do you have an ETA for the next version?

Thanks!

Hi,
We are looking at releasing our next version of the plugin within a week.

Great! Thanks so much!

Thanks, looking forward to it!
Cheers
Chris

Sorry to take so long to get back on this. It appears to work fine in Safari, but not so well in Chrome (according to a friend of mine, and I see it also doesn’t work in Firefox. All on my Mac. Should I be doing something in my browsers – like clearing out existing cookies – to deal with this?

Chrome would’ve been on a PC actually.

Thanks
Chris

Hi Chris,
Is it possible to create a dummy password-protected page and send us the link with password so we can check it out?

I have tried numerous tests on FF/Chrome/IE/Opera and I don’t see any issues on my particular setup which is why I am curious to see the problem for myself on your site.

I can do that – sorry for the delay getting back – but currently have a protected page up for a client and would be reluctant to make it inaccessible to them – I just activated brute force again, with the password protected option selected and get the following message when attempting to access a page….”No input file specified. ”

I see that this thread is 7 months old, and is marked as “resolved” – however I am having this issue right now on WP installations that are completely up to date, both WP and All-in-one.

I really like the brute-force IP restriction, it works well for me. It would be a shame to turn that off just so I can get password-protected pages back.

What can I do?

Please post your own topic.