How to Protect wp-admin & wp-login ?

October 21, 2015 4.5k views
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Hi,

My site is very popular, so there are haters who try to login by tying passwords on wp-login page.

All I want to do is protect wp-admin & wp-login like this :
http://i.imgur.com/xZrOEiC.png

So that, after passing above authentication, I may go to wp-login page.

Please help me to do so.

Regards

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asb MOD October 26, 2015

In order to password protect a page with Apache, you need to add a new section to your Apache VirtualHost like the below:

<DirectoryMatch ^.*/wp-admin/>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Restricted"
    AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
    Require valid-user
</DirectoryMatch>

Then set the user and password by running:

  • sudo htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/.htpasswd username

Finally, restart Apache for the changes to take effect:

  • sudo service apache2 restart

Check out this article for more information:

How To Set Up Password Authentication with Apache on Ubuntu 14.04
by Justin Ellingwood
When setting up a web server, there are often sections of the site that you wish to restrict access to. Web applications often provide their own authentication and authorization methods, but the web server itself can be used to restrict access if these are inadequate or...
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  • shutch190 March 20, 2016

    Apparently this blocks admin-ajax.php and some plugins fail.
    Should we allow access to just that file:

    <Files admin-ajax.php>
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Satisfy any 
</Files>
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