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  • Few days ago I tried to reach my admin panel but suddenly it redirected me right away to 127.0.0.1 (even login window won’t show up). It has been working fine for months, I haven’t changed anything but now suddenly this weird problem occurred. Why? How may I fix it?

    Thank you

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  • Is your server behind a reverse proxy?

    I have no solution, but seem to have a related issue. I am trying to run WordPress on Apache, which is configured to listen to 127.0.0.1:8002. In front of this, I have nginx listening to http://www.mydomain.com:80 and passing requests to Apache.

    Have you tried setting WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL as constants in wp-config.php? (See http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL for more info.)

    In my case, I have both settings in wp-config.php and still get some links in the admin panel pointing to 127.0.0.1:8002. Example: In the posts list, when I click on one of the table headers to change the sort order.

    Thread Starter krneki10

    (@krneki10)

    So I put these 2 lines into wp-config.php

    define('WP_HOME','http://mysiteurl.com');
    define('WP_SITEURL','http://mysiteurl.com');

    And it didn’t change anything. I still can’t access admin panel, it simply redirects to http://127.0.0.1. I don’t have my own hosting server, my website is hosted on one of hosting providers.

    What should I do?

    The host may be blocking brute force attacks and making the wp-admin inaccessible (thus preventing attackers from breaking in as they can’t even reach it) and redirecting people back to localhost. Try contacting your host.

    Another possibility is that you’re using a WordPress security plugin that after so many failed attempts to login redirects the attacker (based on IP address) to “localhost”. If this is so, disable the plugin via FTP/SFTP by renaming its folder and see if that let’s you get in.

    Thread Starter krneki10

    (@krneki10)

    I have contacted my host and they said that everything should be fine.

    I’ve also tried to rename “plugins” folder but it didn’t make any difference.

    Thread Starter krneki10

    (@krneki10)

    Got it, it was WP All In One Security who modified .htaccess in a way that completely broken wp-admin. It works fine now.

    Thanks for help guys.

    Hi, I am having the same problem with WP All in One Security.

    But now I have deleted the plugin folder via filezilla, but still don’t have an access to my panel.

    Any suggestions what to do next?

    @krneki10 – mi poveš kontakt od wp all in one security memberjev oz. kodo ?

    This is currently happening on *all* 1&1 websites FYI – in case anyone is Googling this error…

    @andersonenvy is right. I am having all sorts of difficulties with 1and1

    Yep happening to mine and I’m on 1and1. So is it the DDOS thing rather than a plugin? Don’t think that any of my plugins are changing htaccess.

    I am having the same problem. I am hosted on 1and1. Is there any official info from 1and1 on this?

    Found some info: http://status-1and1.com/#Incident

    Start:12/30/2013 2:41 PM
    Estimated end:Unknown
    Last update:12/30/2013 2:41 PM
    Type:Incident
    Affected services:Websites
    Description:
    We’re experiencing an issue affecting less than 0.5% of the 1&1 customer base.
    The affected users are unable to access their WordPress Admin-Login.

    Yeah. having the same issue too – spent ages trying to get to the bottom of it.

    I’m using the workaround for the time being which works, but a bit of a pain.

    I would consult 1&1 before using any work around – they may have a logical reason to be blocking admin logins on a server….

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