Locked myself out of dashboard, tried resetting plugin both ways, not working!

Hi David,
I am experiencing the same problem. Did you find a solution?
Thanks,
Lindsay

Hi Lindsay,

Unfortunately not. There are some other threads on the same thing though if you search around (don’t have the links sorry), but I couldn’t get anything to work and ended up wiping the site out and then cleaning off wordpress completely and restoring.

I’ve just purchased an SSL certificate and static IP from my webhost now which seems to be working without the plugin.

Thanks,
David

Clearing the browser cache just worked for me. Shame they didn’t tell you to do that in the plug-in FAQ. Would have saved me hours of worry.

Glad you managed to find a solution. I have an SSL cert from my host, but when I force SSL on the general woocommerce settings it won’t let me complete the checkout process, which is why I downloaded this plug-in in the first place.

Not really sure what my next steps are.

Thanks for replying to me.
Lindsay

Beats my two pair – I just installed the SSL and then ‘saved’ it, I believe also using a Forced SSL and now cannot log in to my admin page. I also tried clearing my cache (Firefox) to no avail. Any ideas?

1. Clear your cache on all of the browsers you use, so that maybe internet explorer, mozilla and google chrome

2. Now, find the php file ‘wordpress-https.php’.

3. Find the line:
//define(‘WPHTTPS_RESET’, true);

If you find this, then delete the // to make it:
define(‘WPHTTPS_RESET’, true);

Save this change, and then try and access some of the pages on your website

5. Try to log in to the admin panel now

6. Fingers crossed you should be able to log in now

7. Go back to ‘wordpress-https.php’ and put the two // back in so that it is again commented out and save.

8. Clear the cache, clear recent browser history, close the browser altogether.

9. Re open the browser, and try to login to the admin panel.

I had to contact my tech support at hosting and have them ‘restore’ a previous save in order to get back in. WHEW! Kinda like restoring your computer to a previous point. Won’t go there again.

Lindsayloub,

Thank you for the suggestion. When I try and access my page, it still tries to re-direct to HTTPS and fails to work.

Where can I manually disable this redirect? I already did your suggestion above.

Thank you!

Have you tried renaming the plugin folder from

/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-https

to

/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-https-1

This might (usually) make wordpress disable the plugin and resolve you login issue.

Good Luck

Thank you for the reply. I kept getting an “access denied” when trying to rename the folder.

However, renaming the “wordpress-https.php” file allowed me to effectively disable the plugin.

Prior to doing that, I un-commented the “reset” line within the file (then hit a page to run it). I don’t know if a combination of the two allowed me access again, but I am back in.

It’s disappointing. I’d really like to get this working…