OK I just solved it – the .htaccess file just needs to be edited. I changed the slug back to wp-admin.
The funny thing is, now I am able to access the dashboard again, I have gone into the settings area to check what I had named the slug – and I actually had the correct name all along and hadn’t forgotten it….it just wasn’t working.
Any ideas why that error might happen?
Hi camfay383 can you explain your comment further.
and I actually had the correct name all along and hadn’t forgotten it….it just wasn’t working.
Thank you
so when attempting to access my dashboard, I would try to navigate to http://www.mydomain.com/NEW_SLUG/, but then I was getting a 404 message.
Thank you for answering my question. So you are saying that you were typing the correct slug but it was not working.
Yes that’s right – then I’d be redirected to the 404 page.
Do you have any cache plugin installed?
Have you configured the cache plugin to allow for this slug page to not get cached?
I activated the changed login slug yesterday
Which feature exactly are you referring to?
Cookie-based brute force protection or rename login page?
Like the plugin very much, but have the same or a similar problem here. Used rename login page and that was working. Added maintenance mode, things were still working. Added forced log-out, still okay. Started working on the content of the site, got logged out a few times and was able to log back in again just fine, but all of a sudden I am now stuck with the maintenance mode page instead of a login screen. I did not change any settings between login attempts.
No caching plugin installed yet btw.
Solved. Got back in through the .htacces file and noticed the login url had been changed (not by me). There was a /? in front of the custom url field for me to type in and that was part of the custom url I used before things went weird. The weirdness seems to come from that ? vanishing from my url.
