wp-login not passing form information and forbidden wordpress logo

  • Resolved rexgoode

    (@rexgoode)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    I’m experiencing a very strange problem. A site that has been working a long time has started to have very strange problems and now I can’t log in at all.

    Many elements of the main page are controlled by the theme, but some parts don’t load.

    I can’t log in to check it and that’s where it seems strange to me. Three problems are on the login screen.

    1. The WordPress logo gets a forbidden 403 error and doesn’t show.
    2. There is also a forbidden 403 error for favicon.ico.
    3. When I enter username and password, it just comes right back to an empty login page.

    I changed wp-login.php to look like this:

    case 'login' :
default:
error_log(print_r($_REQUEST,TRUE));

    The error log shows an empty $_REQUEST array for me. I see that some kind of brute force attach is trying to log in with a different username once in awhile. That gets a full $_REQUEST array in the error log.

    I’ve tried deleting the .htaccess file. No change. This was all working a few weeks ago. I only discovered it when my customer said the site was broken.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    403 errors are generally due to file permissions or explicit blocks set in .htaccess. Have you checked with the hosting tech support to see if they’ve modified anything?

    Have you checked the error_log of your webserver? 403 will definitely generate some lines.

    Thread Starter rexgoode

    (@rexgoode)

    No permissions were changed by the host. The error_log has the same errors as the console.

    I’ve deleted the database and reinstalled WordPress v4.5.3. It works. I can log in. I’ve lost the posts, pages, and themes. I have a backup of the database, but I think that restoring it from backup will create the problem again. I’ll try it for now. It must’ve been a file permission problem that the reinstall corrected. I think I’ll mark this as resolved and post about any future problems on a new thread.

    Thanks for the feedback.

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