Wordpress logged in but no access to wp-admin

Question

Using Apache 2.2, Wordpress 4.4, Better WP Security. I have logged in, can browse all pages on front-end, but when I try to access any link that is on wp-admin I get 404 page. I don't have any ideas left for this situation.

I've tried with no luck to:

• disable plugins, as just BWS, and all plugins
• delete/reset .htaccess,
• set all folders and files to 777
• looked into table itsec_lockout but there's no my IP address
• searched sql table itsec_log and what I get for my IP in log_data is a:1:{s:12:"query_string";s:0:"";}, what is that?

What is left to try?

Answer 1

You need to enable the error logging in WordPress from the wp-config.php

define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );

After that, you will probably get some feedback inside:

wp-content/debug.log

Above that, you can try to get the exact feedback you get from 404 page. Check the console in the inspector, and the response from te webserver.

curl -I http://yourwebsite.com/wp-login.php

Looks like inside your theme you have some redirecting problem. Try to remove the plugins, the theme and to set the 2017-teen new theme to check if this is true.

I hope you will isolate the issue soon.

---

What I suggest, you create the test environment somewhere and upgrade the website to the latest version of WordPress.

---

The other things you may investigate: (1) you may have the altered WordPress core somehow, and (2) you may have some .htaccess files other than the WordPress root folder.

Answer 2

Mistakes are stupid as always. There was some unexpected .htaccess file in wp-admin folder witch says Deny All Everything and for Good. Anyway thank you guys for your help!