too many requests - Wordpress mod-rewrite

dsca

• February 19, 2017 11:01

Hi, in refer to this thread: Too many redirects on Wordpress I have the problem that i want to install the htaccess protection for my wordpress blog. So i want to protect the /wp-admin directory and the wp-login.php (both!) I modified the htacces with: AuthType Basic AuthName "My Protected Area" AuthUserFile /home/public_html/passwd Require valid-user But the problem is, that i get the "too many requests" - message and the protection is not working... the default mod rewrite is this. I have no idea how i modify this code, mod-rewrite is stupid and complicated... # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress has anybody ideas? Thanks dsca

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  Jcats

  • February 19, 2017 21:19

  This usually means the location to the auth file is incorrect and judging by what you have there, it most likely is:
  /home/public_html/passwd
  That should look like this:
  /home/user/public_html/passwd
  or are you trying to add protection for your entire server? Try using this via SSH, it will do everything for you, just make sure to remove the current rules you put in .htaccess:
  #Add .htaccess protection to a WP install. for user in CHANGEME ; do p4ssw0rd=$(tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ < /dev/urandom | head -c 12 | xargs) ; /usr/local/apache/bin/htpasswd -b -c /home/$user/.htaccesspasswd $user $p4ssw0rd ; echo "Username: $user" ; echo "Password: $p4ssw0rd" ; cat <> /home/$user/public_html/.htaccess # Popup login protection for WordPress admin # You can change the password in the /home/$user/.htaccesspasswd file. # To create a new login, you can use this site: http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/ AuthType Basic AuthName "Secure Area" AuthUserFile "/home/$user/.htaccesspasswd" require valid-user ErrorDocument 401 default # End of popup login protection EOT done
  Make sure to change CHANGEME with the cPanel username.

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  cPanelMichael

  • February 20, 2017 18:54

  Hello, Let us know if you have any additional questions after reviewing the previous post. Thanks!

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  dsca

  • February 23, 2017 19:40

  i have no access to ssh-console... =( the path to htpasswd is correct.

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  cPanelMichael

  • February 23, 2017 19:48

  Hello, You may want to reach out to your web hosting provider to verify no server-level settings are resulting in the error message you are facing. Otherwise, you could make changes to the .htaccess file via File Manager or FTP. Thanks!

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