Please I cant login to my wp admin dashboard

  • Resolved infotechng

    (@infotechng)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    Please help, i cant seems to login into my admin dashboard, the error message i kept receiving was:

    WordPress administrator area access disabled temporarily due to widespread brute force attacks.

    i contacted my host and all they said was:

    Unfortunately wordpress websites are being attacked by hackers using bruteforce technique. Please add following to your .htaccess file in wp installation folder and replace x.x.x.x with your IP from which you want to access admin area.
    <Files ~ “^wp-login.php”>
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all

    Allow from x.x.x.x
    </Files>

    i am a novice when it comes to working on my cpanel,

    please any help will be really appreciated. thanks. As i am not restricted to using just one ip address. I live in Nigeria where you have to keep changing from one ip to another to see the best that works for you. please reply asap. thanks

    I don’t know how to go about this. thanks

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  • You need to speak to your hosts about this. There’s really not much we can do to help.

    Thread Starter infotechng

    (@infotechng)

    Thanks for the response but all I keep getting from them is to edit my .htaccess file which I don’t even know how to get. Really confused on what to actually do now.

    infotechng, the complete details of editing that .htaccess file are here.

    However, I would recommend you take great care in editing that file if you choose to do so. The htaccess file is a very sensitive file where mistakes will bring your website down completely. If your website is accessible on the front end, you might want to just wait it out and see when this is all resolved.

    Thread Starter infotechng

    (@infotechng)

    Thanks Racer x for your reply, my host insist I have to edit the .htaccess file for my admin page to open. Will be careful in handling things and if I don’t seems to understand how to go about it, then I will contact my host back. Thanks again.

    You will need to download your existing WordPress .htaccess file using FTP (or whatever file management application your host provides). Make a backup copy of the file first and then open it in a plain text editor. At the very top of the file, add:

    <Files ~ "^wp-login.php">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all

Allow from x.x.x.x
</Files>

    where x.x.x.x is the IP address that you are currently using. save the file and re-upload it to your site. Unfortunately, if you change IPs you’ll have to go through the whole process again.

    Thread Starter infotechng

    (@infotechng)

    Thanks all, I was able to edit my htaccess file successfully and it worked. I just hope and pray this brute force attack rubbish ends soon. Thanks for your help am grateful.

    No problem. Remember that, if you change IPs, you will have to update your wp-admins .htaccess file with the new IP but that should only take a few minutes to sort out. ??

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