Unable to login to admin. Shows 404 error

Did you by any chance typed in the incorrect credentials when this happened? The admin user name is not Admin correct?

Are you typing in the address bar the following www.yoursite.com/secret word to log in?

Yes, i used correct address bar. https://www.mysite.com/secret

I have some other name instead of admin.

To that front, i have not done any error.

But still why user is not able to login.

This is not an isolated issue. I’ve installed the plugin, enabled ONLY the Brute Force option to change the admin login URL and it shows 404 Not found.

My .htaccess is also free of any entries.

Okay, here’s the solution:

The .htaccess file MUST contain the following:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

@computerfixer412 can you start a new support thread.

Thank you

Hello @mbrsolution thank you for your support and advice. I am starting a new thread as there is again an issue faced during login.

I am opening my site admin access url:

https://www.site.com/secretword/

site wpadmin opens

here i entering correct user name and password

but i am not able to login at all.

pls let me know what to do?

@yjshah sure no problem, but can you mark this one as resolved.

I will reply to your new support thread.

Thank you

done.

I got the same issue on my wordpress-site hospizdienst-dw-neuss.de : I enabled the brute force option using the unique url, and everytime I try to reach the login page, I get an error 404 (using wrong “secret words” causes redirection to localhost, so I am sure to use the right one).

So I copied computerfixer412’s code into my htaccess (using ftp), but it doesn’t solve the problem. Now I locked out of my own page…. how should I fix this?

Is there any way to deactivate/delete the plugin without logging in to my wordpress dashboard?

@kathi Keinstein, you can rename the plugin folder to what ever name you want using FTP. Then long in to your website via wp-admin and rename the folder back to it’s original name. Then you should be able to troubleshoot your issue.

Thank you

I had this problem too. I think there is some bad code in the htaccess code of All-In-One Security. when I renamed my htaccess, I was again able to log in.

when I disabled AIOS, I was able to get to a 404 page when I tried to connect to mysite/wp-admin.

when the htaccess and AIOS were both active, I couldn’t even get to the 404 page. All I saw was a browser error : too many redirects.

Not very confidence-inducing.

@game writer, this thread is marked as resolved.

Can you start a new support thread with your problem. Can you share the steps you carried out which produces this issue in your site so the developers can investigate further.

Thank yo8u

Figured it out — it was my fault.

I thought the whitelist feature guaranteed that my activity from good IPs would not get blocked by other features of AIOS. In actuality it blocks ALL activity except that from good IPs, and I was trying to log in from an unknown IP.