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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In order to password protect a page with Apache, you need to add a new section to your Apache VirtualHost like the below:
Then set the user and password by running:
Finally, restart Apache for the changes to take effect:
Check out this article for more information:
Hello, all
There are plugins that can change the default admin page from domain.com/wp-admin and also make the admin page inaccessible via the PHP file domain.com/wp-login.php. This can also be achieved using Apache or Nginx rewrite rules, but for not so technically advanced users a plugin will do the job just as well as using a rewrite rule.
Regards, Alex