Title: XMLRPC username/password issues.
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# XMLRPC username/password issues.

 *  Resolved [jameyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameyer/)
 * (@jameyer)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpc-usernamepassword-issues/)
 * I’m having issues logging on to my blog using Windows Live Writer (WLW). The 
   error I am getting is invalid username/password. This is a recent error, started
   occurring yesterday, it’s been at most a week since I last tried logging on this
   way.
    Prior to this week, it worked fine. I have verified the username/password
   combination is correct, I can log on to the site normally, just not through WLW
   using xmlrpc. I have 3 sites, 2 of them use a subdirectory for WordPress, one
   doesn’t. This stopped working on all 3 sites at once. My guess, a server change.
   I contacted FatCow (provider), they said no changes were made in the last 2 weeks(
   Aside: amazing since they had a .cgi issue today that got fixed…with no server
   changes.) How do I determine what is causing this issue, and how to fix it? My
   main blog and the one I am trying to get working is [http://www.wordpresschronicle.com/](http://www.wordpresschronicle.com/),
   the wordpress install is [http://www.wordpresschronicle.com/wordpress/](http://www.wordpresschronicle.com/wordpress/),
   and the xmlrpc is located at [http://www.wordpresschronicle.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php](http://www.wordpresschronicle.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php)
   I’ve looked through the forum and tried the suggestions in other post with no
   luck, the exception being removing the security filter, since I don’t know that
   it would be the same on all servers, but suspect it wouldn’t. I’ve been working
   on this for two days and reached the end of my limited knowledge. Any help would
   be greatly appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [jameyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameyer/)
 * (@jameyer)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpc-usernamepassword-issues/#post-2291681)
 * I was able to get a workaround by removing special characters from my password.
   Is there an issue with xmlrpc.php where it doesn’t accept special characters?
   As I said, I have a work around but I feel by using it, I’m made my site a little
   less secure.
 *  Thread Starter [jameyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameyer/)
 * (@jameyer)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpc-usernamepassword-issues/#post-2291728)
 * changed to resolved. I did a new install. Now I can log on ok, other issues that
   need resolved but I’ll open new question.

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 * Last reply from: [jameyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameyer/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpc-usernamepassword-issues/#post-2291728)
 * Status: resolved

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