The same thing just happened to me. I’ve been using a hidden login page for months and it has worked fine. Now when I try to go to that page, it redirects me to my homepage http://www.nylacrystal.com
I did the WP update and everything was working fine until this morning. Probably happened in the same time frame as fellene, who posted above me.
Anyone have a fix for this? I don’t want to go deleting stuff from the directory folder. My site is functional, I just can’t login 🙁
Resolved for me. I didn’t do change any settings or do anything different except use a different computer. Maybe the other computer was banned somehow. I will try again on the other computer.
Not working for me either. Happened out of nowhere really.
This plugin developer seriously needs to update and fix this! He/she claims to be the best security plugin and a key feature is completely broken…
Hi all Maybe somebody else want to solve this problem 🙂 I had it and finally I solved with this moves:
1. delete better wp-security folder from plugin folder via ftp
2. edit your .htaccess (infact, better wp edits it ) by removing ALL lines from # BEGIN BETTER WP to # END BETTER WP .
Then, you’ll see that if you try login normally (wp-login.php) you should be able to :))
I agree with Patrick; this developer has some serious issues.
Please see a related thread where I posted just minutes ago:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-cant-login-after-installing-better-wp-security-even-wp-admin-link-broken
@jujole
I just followed your instructions by deleting areas in .htaccess but I am still getting and error code when trying to log into my dashboard.. error code = Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_option() in /homepages/9/d105930160/htdocs/Coastal/K2/wp-admin/admin.php on line 32
Is there anything else that I may have to edit?
@ejohnson43:
Your error indicates something with an upgrade of WP, by looking at line 32 in admin.php (see http://core.svn.wordpress.org/branches/3.3/wp-admin/admin.php)
if ( get_option('db_upgraded') ) {
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
update_option( 'db_upgraded', false );
I’m not too good in PHP so I don’t know what’s causing it but it I suggest you to first remove the .htaccess file and see if the problem remains. If it does, re-install wordpress. You have to do it using an FTP client since you cant login (?).
Thanks for posting this thread.
I also forgot that I’d changed my .htaccess and opted to make my wp-admin hidden.
I don’t fault the plugin, I forgot to save what I’d changed it to (and I shoulda known better)
following the suggestions given by jujole, I removed the lines of code in .htaccess that clearly were mods made by WP Better Security
and deleted the WP Better Security directory via FTP
and I can now login to my site again
I plan on reinstalling the plugin but pay closer attention to what I changed the login url to
Thanks jojole!
I’ll chime in a bit too…
What worked for me (and is by far the easiest thing to try first) is to clear your browser cache, close your browser, restart it, open a new page to your http://www.yoursite.com/admin and try again.
But the other tips were very good as well!
