403 – can’t login anymore
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Seems like I got kicked out by my own Firewall? Have been using the plugin for months without any problems. Out of a sudden, I can’t log-in anymore. Luckily, I had still an open session. Deactivated the (free) version and it works again.
What could have happened. Can I whitelist myself? Haven’t done anything except reloading pages to check CSS updates, etc.
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Never heard of anyone getting blocked when trying to log in.. did it happen when you clicked the “Log in” button, or just when trying to visit the Login page? If the block happened when you were trying to login (after clicking the Log in button), then you should check if the username and password include any weird characters or character combinations.
Adds:
“Can I whitelist myself?”
The free version is very basic so there are no settings to do it. But it is possible to whitelist any blocked terms programmatically. You can find a guide here under “Remove patterns from BBQ firewall rules”.
Before – it doesn’t even show me the log-in page of wp-admin.
But when it happend the first time, I got kicked out of my session. Maybe for time reasons.. and when I tried to login again it gave me an 403 error page. Login via wp-login apparently still works. That was how I re-entered.
Might want to add, that I have directory protection for wp-admin. So I have to go through this extra barrier.. not sure if that’s a problem. But hasn’t been so far. Worked fine. Also, same username and password from the beginning.
This is how the URL looks like when I get the 403 error:
https://[my-siteurl]/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2F[my-siteurl]%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1
Want to add some stuff for clarification:
When BBQ is active, I can still access /wp-login, but not via /wp-admin. It gives me an HTTP 403 error and crbug/1173575, non-JS module files deprecated (Index):2758 in console. Once BBQ is turned off, I can access with no problems and no JS module error. Not sure if this has anything to do with it .. have no clue about programming.
All browsers (IE, Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari mobile).
I have been using BBQ and all of my current themes/plugins for months. Haven’t changed anything on that particular day except some CSS in the child theme. Only major change – but actually 2 days ago, was moving WP to a new domain.
Currently running newest version of WordPress and BBQ – PHP 8. Checked .htaccess as well – nothing obvious there.
UPDATE: Sry – don’t want to spam.
Works with mobile internet. Seems like it is somehow connected to my home network. Tried ipconfig/release, ipconfig/renew and ipconfig/flashdns + restarted router. No real change.
BUT – after flushdns, I can login in Chrome, not Edge apparently for 2-3 attempts.. and then, out of a sudden not anymore. I don’t get it.
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