Rename Login URL Breaks Site

I forgot to mentioned something: this has only become an issue since the last upgrade of this plugin.

Which theme are you using?

Hi @ironlion37,
Have you tried using the cookie-based brute force prevention feature?
It is similar from the user’s perspective but even more effective – provided your site and browser doesn’t have any issues with cookies.

Maybe you can try activating that feature until we figure out what is causing your current problem?

Thanks, yes I tried it but the cookie test failed and the plugin stated that it won’t work on this site.

@mra13 the themes are “Omnicron” from Rocketthemes and “Caffiene” by Muffin Group.

@ironlion37,
We will need to take a closer look on your site to see what’s going on.
Use this contact form to get in touch:
https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/contact

Hi, we have the same issue on one of our sites.

One sites server does not support the Brute Force Cookie Prevention feature, so we used the Rename Log-In Page feature.
We can log-in to this site and everything works fine.
The theme used is MyStile for this site.

The other sites server DOES support the Brute Force option, which we enabled. At first the log-in worked fine (3-days ago) but today when I try to log-in via the new page I can’t!
What actually happens is the log-in URL is reported in the address bar of the browser but all we see is the front end of the site just as if we had gone to the URL.
This is a bespoke theme written by an individual company.

How do we log-in without having to disable the plug-in via PHPAdmin?

@sduk,
If you are referring to cookie based brute force prevention for the site you are unable to log back in, simply use FTP and get .htaccess file and then edit it and remove the section in between and including the following tags:
#AIOWPS_ENABLE_BRUTE_FORCE_PREVENTION_START
#AIOWPS_ENABLE_BRUTE_FORCE_PREVENTION_END

Then FTP the edited file back to your server.

@wpsolutions

Thank you – It’s now sorted!

@wpsolutions, I have sent you a message through your contact form.

Hello?

@ironlion37,
Someone from the team tried getting in touch with you but you haven’t replied or maybe you didn’t receive the email?

I did get the email and have replied. Thank you!

Hi,
I think your plugin has thoroughly secured my site. My ISP was blocked, my login was incorrect, etc. blah blah blah,…could not login at all. it is okay now, my host tech support got me in. But:

I am not able to login as the SuperUser on my MultiSite WP install.

I do not have access to the network core – add/remove/update plugins, themes, and WP.
I do not have access to plugins at all, they do not appear in the Admin menu.

Please Help!
I am a novice. We, my host tech support and I, have been messing with this for about two months. I could not remember the plugin until now – I hope.

My site is somewhat broken, I cannot fix it. I am trying to recreate it but I can’t export images. Etc. I do use too many plugins, but I like them – I can’t get the list of what I installed. And I am lazy, my little space is not worth the work.

I hope that you can help – that I have come to the correct place. Apologies if I am mistaken.
Thank you

This feature is broken somewhat.

If it detects your session has expired it tries to access wp-login.php and results in a 404 page.

The url contains the wp-login.php with a redirect string to the correct address.

If you try the login page again, it works as I guess your cookie has been cleared.

You can then login successfully.

I’ve disabled the feature, as I’d like to “catch” potential hackers. Tho it be nice if it was 100% and sends you to the correct (renamed) url if your session expires instead of the 404 page.

My site is using the “Contrast” theme if it helps. It does know the correct url as its listed as the redirect_url in the address bar.

I’m guessing wp-login.php when it detects a session expiry and due to .htaccess (?) it gives you a 404 page?

Any help greatly appreciated.