Unable to login using either wp-admin or wp-login.php

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Have you tried contacting your hosts about this?

    Thread Starter ricjones

    (@ricjones)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Yes, and received a partial answer in that everything ‘appears’ to be okay with my site on their end. They do not show any suspicious activity, nor any file names being changed or deleted, nor any ‘admin’ activity on my site since I logged in 2 days ago.

    However, they are searching further and will get back to me if they find anything. They have not heard of anything quite like this either.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    From what I can tell, this is not a WordPress issue but a server/DNS one.

    Thread Starter ricjones

    (@ricjones)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    I will go after my host again and see what happens…. and update/close this once I have it resolved. Thank you…

    Krishna

    (@1nexus)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    That is not my host IP

    The IP address 127.0.0.1 is the one the localhost resolves to in most computers and the commonly used IPv4 loopback address, and to the IPv6 loopback.

    Thread Starter ricjones

    (@ricjones)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    We have the answer….and a solution!
    My host advised me that there is an ongoing brute force attack going against WP sites (for over 6 months) and that it just happened to hit the server I am hosted on….The host server blocked it and all access to wp-admin and wp-login files on all WP sites on the server, with a fictitious redirect.

    We changed the admin file name for login to something that a bot won’t look for….everything works great with the renamed filename.

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