If you used the brute force rename login, it is a problem that plagues me without any answers from anyone. You need to sneak in the back door and disable the plugin. And you will be able to log in again. It is not the htaccess as is so often claimed unless you are using the cookie based oslution.
When it works it is bullet proof.
@seb06, can you provide more information regarding your issue.
Thank you
It is very simple. When enabling the name-based brute force routine, I am locked out. File not found. I am at a loss how this routine is enabled. It is not enable to the .htaccess file.
The cookie-based brute force routine also does not seem to be operative. But it does not prevent me from logging in. It simply leads me to the usual WP–login.php routine.
Repeating, every single time I use the name-based brute force routine I am locked out. The only way to recover is through the back door, deleting the entire plug-in. That allows me to login once again. I don’t know whether this is a permission-based problem. All my directories are CHMOD apache.
It has worked in the past when used InMotionHosting VPS server. But does not work with any Amazon web service instance.
