Seems the Wordpress administrator area is temporarily disabled due to a widespread brute force attack. If your website uses Wordpress, your site is still available, but you wont have access to the administrator area. When you attempt to access the administrator area this following message is displayed "Wordpress administrator area access disabled temporarily due to widespread brute force attacks."
There is a workaroun, but I have not yet tried it to confirm if it works. Someone at stackexchange.com submitted a question regarding this issue. See the following instructions and code to allow administrator access to your Wordpress site.
"Please add following to your .htaccess file in wp installation folder and replace x.x.x.x with your IP from which you want to access admin area.
~ "^wp-login.php">
Allow from x.x.x.x
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
admin access"
If you tried this, and it works. Please leave a comment, and I will update this post stating it actually works. This will help lots of people that will need to update their sites today.
1 comment:
It worked!! Thanks so much. I wonder, though, if I'm going to have to keep changing the ip address depending upon where I'm working from.
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