Password protected pages are not working – 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

  • This days I run into the problem, that password protected wordpress pages are not working.
    Three months ago all went well, since that time there was no change on my site.
    My hoster is 1&1, germany.
    I am using no plugin for login or security stuff.

    First I used WP 3.5.1 with PHP 5.2, yesterday I changed to WP 3.8 with PHP 5.5. But nothing changed.
    A support request at 1&1 get no reason for this at hoster side !?

    Here are some details about the request:

    Response header:
    HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
    Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:55:13 GMT
    Server: Apache
    Content-Length: 323
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

    Request header:
    POST /wp-login.php?action=postpass HTTP/1.1
    Host: abc.de
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0
    Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
    Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Referer: https://abc.de/testpw/
    Cookie: ….
    X-ClickOnceSupport: ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)
    Connection: keep-alive

    PostParameter
    Submit=Senden
    post_password=abc123

    So what can I do?

    Best regards
    freica97

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  • I have the same Hoster (1&1) and have exactly the same problem. I contacted the Platin Hotline, but they had no idea. I deactivated all plugins (especially my security plugins Wordfence, SI-Captcha, Login Security Solution, and Limit Login Attempts – but no success. Always the same 503 error. Anybody any idea?

    FYI-

    I also have been unable to login to any of the wordpress sites I manage and instead have been getting the 503 error message. 1&1 informed me on the 17th that this is a known problem ‘at their end’ and that they were trying to resolve it. I was informed by the help desk that I would be informed as soon as it had been rectified by email.

    The matter does now seem to be resolved in my case; though no notification email has been forth coming. I did have to manually delete the various cookies my chrome browser had stored relating to my wordpress sites before being able to get into the dashboards. Only figured this out by trying to login via a different browser.

    Same here. Using 1&1 and password protected pages do not work.

    But I have just found a workaround:

    ssh yourhost
    cd your/wordpress/directory
    ln -s wp-login.php password-wp-login.php
    nano wp-includes/post-template.php

    and then change

    wp-login.php?action=postpass

    to

    password-wp-login.php?action=postpass

    Hope it helps.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    nano wp-includes/post-template.php

    That may be a work around but editing files like that is Not A Good Idea?. You can easily make your system unstable that way and when an update comes out you will lose those changes.

    If any host is interfering with WordPress that way then it’s probably a good time to switch hosts.

    Of course it is not a good idea, but that’s precisely why I call this a workaround and not a solution. A workaround is usually better than nothing.

    Thread Starter freica97

    (@freica97)

    On last Friday I get a call from 1&1, where thay told me, that I am right and they lock this commmand since a few days because some bots are active there.
    As solution they offered an internal move to another server (I use a virtual Workspace, no root Access).
    So I am waiting for this solution.

    Hi,
    I tried again today and it is working again. Phew! We had just had a discussion and were girding our loins to move to another hosting agency.

    Hi guys,

    Just wondering if you ever found out what the problem was or how to fix it?

    Was it server side with the hosts or something you guys had to change?

    Cheers.

    Thread Starter freica97

    (@freica97)

    Hi,
    my problem was at the server side and it was solved by my hoster (1&1, germany) as promised.
    Best regards.

    I’m getting this message immediately after getting an email from WordPress telling me my version of WP had been automatically updated to 3.9.2. I thought I had to update versions of WP myself, why is someone at WP doing this? The site works, but I can’t now log in as admin, and I need to do that. This was caused by someone else and someone should sort it out.

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