jseppe

Hi Mark,

Apologies for not getting back to you right away. This is still not working for me. I started with a fresh install of WP 3.9.1 and WF 5.0.7. I’ve tried it from my phone, other computers, and different browsers. I am not seeing anything wrong in the apache error or access logs. I see no issues with sql access.
I also wrote a selenium script which loops and attempts to login as admin and had it cycle for almost 5 minutes with a 2 second delay. It never locks out the user. I’ve also tried other non-existant users, no luck. I also added admin and administrator to the new section to block out users. Please advise as to how I can further troubleshoot this issue. I’m happy to debug the issue if you can point me in the right direction. It is maddening and has consumed a great deal of time – I just want to fix it.

Regards,
Jsep

Hi folks,

I really need this to work but haven’t received any responses from support on this forum. Is it possible to enable debugging to find out why it is not locking out users? I just installed Better WP Security on one of my instances and the lockout feature works flawlessly.

Thanks in advance.

Also, as you can see Wordfence SQL tables (below), it detects the invalid login but doesn’t do anything about it. I have Wordfence configured to lock out invalid users immediately and failed logins after 2 attempts. Any help is greatly appreciated.

fail action username userID
1 loginFailInvalidUsername admin 0
1 loginFailInvalidUsername j 0
1 loginFailInvalidUsername jadf 0
1 loginFailInvalidUsername fake 0
1 loginFailInvalidUsername fake 0
1 loginFailInvalidUsername fake 0
1 loginFailInvalidUsername fake 0
1 loginFailInvalidUsername jjj 0
1 loginFailInvalidUsername jalsdjf 0
1 loginFailInvalidUsername laksjdfl 0
1 loginFailInvalidUsername alsfdjla 0
1 loginFailInvalidUsername adminn 0
1 loginFailInvalidUsername adminn 0

I also block them at the main firewall if you have the liberty to do so.