Title: restricted access to wp-admin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# restricted access to wp-admin

 *  Resolved [allm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/realblueorange/)
 * (@realblueorange)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-access-to-wp-admin/)
 * I have just read about the auto-update feature, which is great, especially if
   you have quite a few sites to go through.
 * Will there be a problem with the auto-update when access to the wp-admin directory
   is restricted through the use of a .htaccess file? And will a database update
   work under those circumstances?
 * Thanx for your answer!

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 *  [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * (@leejosepho)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-access-to-wp-admin/#post-4239215)
 * BulletProof Security has my wp-admin locked down pretty tight, and I have never
   had any problem doing a WordPress upgrade.
 *  Thread Starter [allm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/realblueorange/)
 * (@realblueorange)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-access-to-wp-admin/#post-4239226)
 * [@leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/): thanx for your
   answer. That is a good indication.
 * I was just wondering if there is anything that might go wrong, for instance during
   a database update (as part of the WP auto-update). Is there someone who is familiar
   with what is going on in the core files who can tell for sure if there is a problem(
   or not) with a wp-admin directory that has restricted access. I’d like to be 
   sure before I auto-update…
 *  Moderator [Sergey Biryukov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sergeybiryukov/)
 * (@sergeybiryukov)
 * WordPress Dev
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-access-to-wp-admin/#post-4239299)
 * > Will there be a problem with the auto-update when access to the wp-admin directory
   > is restricted through the use of a .htaccess file?
 * Background updates are only performed if PHP can update the files directly, so
   any `.htaccess` restrictions shouldn’t make a difference.
 * > I was just wondering if there is anything that might go wrong, for instance
   > during a database update (as part of the WP auto-update).
 * Background updates in 3.7 only deal with files, database update is a separate
   process. Database schema is not changed in minor releases.
 *  Thread Starter [allm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/realblueorange/)
 * (@realblueorange)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-access-to-wp-admin/#post-4239343)
 * [@sergey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sergey/):
 * Thanks for your answer. I guess my question partly came from a screenshot somewhere,
   where I saw a log entry in the auto-update e-mail mentioning the database update.
   That matches my experience where I see the database update mentioned on the screen
   with any automatic update in version 3.6 and less.
 * I guess it is only mentioned, but no changes are actually performed on the database.
 * That is rather confusing. I really don’t want to find myself in a situation where
   the source code is changed and a database update did not go thru.
 * I’ll try to trust that all changes are fine. If anything comes up along the way,
   I’ll know where to go.
 *  Moderator [Sergey Biryukov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sergeybiryukov/)
 * (@sergeybiryukov)
 * WordPress Dev
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restricted-access-to-wp-admin/#post-4239344)
 * Database updates in major releases are done with backwards compatibility in mind,
   so if the files are updated and the database is not (yet), the site should still
   work fine.

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