Hide WP-Admin on NGINX not working

  • Resolved mrkwagga

    (@mrkwagga)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Guys,

    I recently installed Better-WP-Security, and decided to ‘hide’ my wp-admin URL.

    I change it to /backend, but the moment I saved it, it redirected me to the homepage, the URL did not change however.
    If I type in website.com/wp-admin I get /not_found.

    Scouring the forums, said I should check my .htaccess, but NGINX ignores .htaccess files, also the .htaccess was untouched – http://pastebin.com/7VkUcHyh

    The nginx logs also do not show anything out of the ordinary.

    Please help, I’ve even tried to undo this change, to no avail, and manually added a rewrite rule in nginx config, which also didn’t work.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/

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  • Gerroald

    (@gerroald)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    Did you get this working?

    Are you getting redirected to the home page when trying to access the login page? If so, then it sounds like Away Mode is active. Navigate to wp-content > uploads > ithemes-security via FTP and delete the itsec_away.confg file. This will get you back in.

    Thanks!

    Gerroald

    Thread Starter mrkwagga

    (@mrkwagga)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Turns out, WP-Construction-Mode (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-construction-mode/) and this plugin, does not play well together.

    I finally managed to get back in by disabling WP-Construction-Mode, then signing in from the frontend, and then disabling the Hide URL function in iThemes Security.

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