Title: Cannot Access Admin Page
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Cannot Access Admin Page

 *  Resolved [larckco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larckco/)
 * (@larckco)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-page-8/)
 * I added the plugin over a week ago, everything worked just fine. Today I went
   to log in to the admin to add some content and I get this error:
 * You were blocked by the WordPress Simple Firewall. Something in the URL, Form
   or Cookie data wasn’t appropriate.
 * Dumped the cache, tried other browsers, other computers but still locked out 
   of the admin page. I renamed the plugin folder on the server but still cannot
   log in. I need to know how to bypass this problem so I can log in and uninstall
   the plugin.
 * FWIW I used three different browsers and 2 different computers so it appears 
   to be a plugin problem.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/)

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 *  Thread Starter [larckco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larckco/)
 * (@larckco)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-page-8/#post-5653419)
 * Just started checking my other sites with this same plugin and getting same results.
 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-page-8/#post-5653423)
 * Can you send me a link to your site so I can see the site?
 * My guess is that something is being set in your cookies and the firewall is picking
   up on it.
 * To disable the plugin, you’ll need to use FTP as outlined here: [https://icontrolwp.freshdesk.com/support/articles/3000000959](https://icontrolwp.freshdesk.com/support/articles/3000000959)
 * Let me know how you get on.
    Paul.
 *  Thread Starter [larckco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larckco/)
 * (@larckco)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-page-8/#post-5653459)
 * [http://sumterdirectory.com](http://sumterdirectory.com) (a couple others are
   doing same thing)
 * Earlier I renamed the entire plugin folder which normally disables any plugin
   but oddly enough it didn’t help in this case. So I named it back to the original
   name and uploaded the forceOff file with the same result.
 * BTW, thank you for the very fast response!
 * Before I do anything else and I going to shut everything down and restart the
   network. I have had some issues with DNS changes due to my satellite so I better
   reset all of that to make sure that isn’t the problem and not the plugin. I just
   might be barking up the wrong tree here, it may not be the site at all.
 * It doesn’t make sense that renaming the plugin folder failed to disable the plugin.
   Anyway, back in a few. Thanks for the help.
 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-page-8/#post-5653460)
 * Yep, if you renamed the plugin and it didn’t help, you’ve got bigger/other problems
   at play here. WordPress can’t run a plugin it can’t “find”.
 * Let me know.
    Paul.
 *  Thread Starter [larckco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larckco/)
 * (@larckco)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-page-8/#post-5653486)
 * Well, shutting everything down, unplugging the sat modem, turning off sat web
   acceleration did nothing for the problem. Here is an email I received from the
   plugin when I tried to log in:
 * WordPress Simple Firewall has blocked a page visit to your site.
    Log details
   for this visitor are below: – IP Address: XX.XX.XXX.XXX – Page parameter failed
   firewall check. The offending parameter was “redirect_to” with a value of “[http://sumterdirectory.com/wp-admin/&#8221](http://sumterdirectory.com/wp-admin/&#8221);.–
   Firewall Trigger: Leading Schema. – Firewall Block Response: Visitor connection
   was killed with wp_die() and a message. You can look up the offending IP Address
   here: [http://ip-lookup.net/?ip=XX.XX.XXX.XXX](http://ip-lookup.net/?ip=XX.XX.XXX.XXX)
 * This site has a plugin which renames the wp-admin and I wonder if that is the
   culprit and not the firewall? It has been working for over a week with same configuration
   but anything is possible.
 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-page-8/#post-5653600)
 * But didn’t you rename the plugin folder?
 * If you did, then WordPress couldn’t possibly be still running the Simple Firewall…
   it just wouldn’t work.
 * Try tweaking with the wp-admin folder… there should be little reason to rename
   that folder and you’re more likely to mess up other plugins doing that since 
   it’s such a huge change. That’s what the Simple Firewall is designed to do – 
   protect you while not messing with core WordPress running so as ensure compatibility
   elsewhere.
 * Cheers!
    Paul.

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