Jak zabezpieczyć hasłem twój katalog administratora WordPress (wp-admin)

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1. Mrteesurez

   Thanks. I found it helpful.
   I want to ask if the methods are all offering the same level of security, I would prefer and recommend to stick to the first method as it seems easy and straight forward.

   Or is there any one that is better than the other ??

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   • WPBeginner Support

     These are different methods to achieve the same result so it would depend on your preference for which one you would use.

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2. Mark

   Is there anyway for hackers to gain access to this password and even change it, like in phpMyAdmin ?

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   • WPBeginner Support

     They would need access to your hosting provider or site files for this guide.

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3. Salman

   I have changed my login URL using the „WPS Hide Login” plugin. Lets say the previous URL ended in wp-admin/ and the new URL ends in hidden/ now how can I password protect this new URL?

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   • WPBeginner Support

     It would depend on what method you are using and how you changed the URL, as long as there is a file/folder in the new location you should be able to select that folder or change the path on line 2 of the htaccess method

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   • Jiří Vaněk

     WPShide doesn’t create a new folder, I use that too. The wp-admin folder is still on the server and functional. So if you use WPSHide, secure the wp-admin folder exactly the same.

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4. Jiří Vaněk

   A good practice is also to rename the WordPress administration URL and choose a different administrator username than 'admin.’ Changing the URL makes it harder for attackers to locate the administration, and not using 'admin’ as the administrator reduces the risk of a successful brute force attack.

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Having a username other than admin is definitely recommended but for changing the wp-admin url is not always recommended as that can cause trouble with some plugins as well as make troubleshooting more difficult.

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5. Jose

   Ajax fix worked fine. Thanks a lot for this.

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     Glad our article could help

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6. Umer Yaseen

   What if someone accesses our WordPress admin directory by entering mywebsite.com/wp-login.php instead of mywebsite.com/wp-admin. This method only protects wp-admin and not protects wp-login.php. So how it is useful?

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   • WPBeginner Support

     This would show the same prompt for users trying to log in using the wp-login.php

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7. nadia

   you are the best. thanks for thousand time like allways.

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Glad you’ve found our content helpful

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8. Lordemmaculate

   I want to do this but my server is Nginx not Apache so I can’t use .htaccess

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   • WPBeginner Support

     We’ll see if we can add a method for that type of server when we update this article

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9. Rajah

   The first method through cPanel worked like a charm. However, when I logout again from WP and login again it doesn’t ask again for the directory password. Is it meant to ask only once?

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Your cookies/cache will remember the login information. Normally the next time you start up your computer it will require you to log in again.

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10. Webo

    Very good, Thank you…

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      You’re welcome

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11. Izzy

    The „Password Protect Directories” is not on my cPanel under „securitiy”, so I tried the manual way, but it doesn’t seem to work as it doesn’t ask for login when I open wp-admin…

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    • WPBeginner Support

      If you reach out to your hosting provider they should be able to assist and take a look if there’s any reason it wouldn’t be working.

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12. Ahsan Ali

    Thanks for your efforts!
    I used cpanel method it works fine but the problem is that the password prompt appearing on every page of my website!

    What i have to do so that it appear only at wp-admin page?

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    • WPBeginner Support

      It sounds like you may have password protected your public_html folder instead of the wp-admin folder. You would want to remove the current protection and attempt to set it up again

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13. Onyenucheya Somto

    please where can I find my main WordPress .htaccess file

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    • WPBeginner Support

      That would be where your WordPress folders are, you could either use FTP or your host’s file manager if they have one to get to your WordPress files.

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14. CHHRIS

    Please this settings works fine for me, but my problem is that am using woocommerce and yith woocoomerce my account page, so when ever users login to their my-account area they are often prompted to put the login details for my protected admin, how can i fix this?

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    • WPBeginner Support

      For that, you would want to remove this protection unless you wanted to give each user a login for the httpassword

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15. Jose

    My wp-admin login page is broken after use that code.

    I set the ajax fixit, but, still broken.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      It would depend on the specific error you are running into when trying to get to your admin area for how to solve the problem

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16. Rahul Yogi

    Hy buddy, i had tried cpanel method which doesnt work for me but manual method work as shown above.

    But i have one problem after going example.com/admin, i have to enter directory username and password but after after entering nothing happens means it does not redirect me to dashboard or anywhere. Just same page — shoing waiting for connection for example.com and get error too many redirect.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      You may want to try the recommendations in our article: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-error-too-many-redirects-issue-in-wordpress/
      for the twoo many redirects, another option would be to make sure you fix the ajax issue using the method at the bottom of this article

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      • Rahul Yogi

        Thanks buddy, everything is working fine.

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        • WPBeginner Support

          Glad to hear

17. Brian

    Wow,

    You are a legend! Spent like 2hrs jumping from site to site to get this working… First site that mentioned the ErrorDocument 401 default. Works like a charm now

    Thanks

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      Glad our guide could help

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18. Deb

    Thanks so much – this is the first place I have found with all 3 bits of code that was needed – (I had the redirect problem). The code worked like a charm. I now have an extra layer of protection without adding another potentially vulnerable plugin.

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      Glad our article could help

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19. Garry

    All I get after adding the above code in a .htacess file on /wp-admin folder is 500 internal server error.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      If the htaccess method is not working you could remove the code and then use the cpanel method for password protecting the directory

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20. Colleen

    I did this, followed the link for the error message and for some reason I don’t have a .htaccess file!

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    • WPBeginner Support

      The .htaccess by default is a hidden file, are you showing hidden files? https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/why-you-cant-find-htaccess-file-on-your-wordpress-site/

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21. Samwel

    I followed the steps but i now can’t log in . It says „The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.”

    even on refreshing the page the pop up to key in password does not re-appear help out

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    • WPBeginner Support

      or resolving that error, you would want to take a look at our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-internal-server-error-in-wordpress/

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22. maria hag

    hi,

    i bought new name and i change the name of website and than save it . now i cant login to admin. it show me 404 erorr
    how can i change it
    please advise

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    • WPBeginner Support

      You would want to reach out to your hosting provider and they should be able to help you have your new domain point toward where your site is currently

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23. taher

    I have activated password protection to wordpress directory via c-panel but wordfence is unable to scan my site. Due to ajax issue.

    I tried fixing it by updating my wp-admin/.htaccess file with the provided code by you but wordfence is still unable to start a scan. What do you suggest?

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    • WPBeginner Support

      You may want to ensure your caching is cleared and if that error continues, reach out to Wordfence about their plugin

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24. Amit Mukherjee

    Enabling password protection of the wp-admin directory prevents me as logging in as the administrator. I get a page not found error. I cannot get to the login page. If I remove the password protection, I can login.

    What should I do. I am setting up a Wordpress website for the first time.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Hi Amit,

      Yes you can remove password protection at anytime.

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25. mary-anne J.

    So how do you undo the password protect using the cPanel ..that is, I want to remove my password protection for the wp-admin directory

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26. Keri

    I followed the instructions to add the password protection using c_panel.

    It works fine in IE 11 but doesn’t work in: Edge; Firefox; Chrome; or Opera.
    Any ideas?

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Hi Keri,

      Please review your settings in cPanel to make sure you didn’t miss anything.

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      • Keri

        I’m not sure what I missed, given that it worked in IE but not in the other browsers. I deleted the user to whom I had given access and added the same user back in and, „Voila!”, all is good.

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27. Valentin

    > Upload this file outside your /public_html/ directory.

    Good advice—more generally: outside your DocRoot.

    > A good path would be: home/user/.htpasswds/public_html/wp-admin/passwd/

    That, however, doesn’t seem to be outside your DocRoot

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28. Amigan

    How could we integrate this solution on IIs?

    Thanks in advance for your help!

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29. pawan singh

    hi syed, i followed your tutorial as i do always whenever i find a problem but i am facing this error continiously.

    ERROR –

    „401
    Unauthorized

    Proper authorization is required to access this resource!”

    1. I made htpassword file properly with user name and password.
    2. Edited main .htaccess file with proper code.
    3. Implemented this line in .htaccess file on topas first line
    ErrorDocument 401 default
    4. Add AJAX functionality code

    After doing all this i see additional popup box which need login details for wp-admin. – Success here

    But i’m not able to access my home page like example.com. popupbox appears again without calling /wp-admin. Please tell how to remove this 401 Error. I see that many bloggers asked this issue in comment section, but you didn’t reply. I hope you will soon address the problem.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Hello Pawan,

      This could be because the password your entered is incorrect or your server couldn’t find the .htpasswds file. We will recommend you to retrace your steps to figure out what went wrong.

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      • Robbiegod

        I am seeing the same issue. On subpages on my site, when I have my /wp-admin/ .htaccess password protecting my site, I get the user/pass pop-up box on pages on the front end.

        The temporary solution was to just remove the htaccess file from wp-admin. Now i am trying to put it back, so I’ll see what i can come up with and post back if i figure it out.

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30. Arinze Ifeanyi

    Thank you for this. I worked really well especially that line „ErrorDocument 401 default” that prevented it from giving 404 error. I really dont miss tweet from you. My question now is, how can someone remove the password? And again, will the password be required upon users registration via a custom registration page?

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31. Rony Ahamed

    after using this method now when i try to go in wp-admin its says me maintenance mood ( this mode is on in my wp dashboard ) .. so how can i use it ?

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32. Adrian

    Do you have a method using IIS? I’ll be glad if you have. I’m very new to WordPress running in IIS server.

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33. pawan

    hi how to change my cpanel default url like „www.example.com/cpanel” to „www.example.com/customized”
    there is nothing on the internet about this topic.

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34. Edgar

    Hi my dear friends I have a problem. I want to make double autentification on my wordpress.But there is conflict in wordpress htacsess between wp default rules and this code:

    AuthType Basic
    AuthName „Password Protected”
    AuthUserFile path/to/.htpasswd
    Require valid-user
    Satisfy All

    I get error like 500 or error „this page is wrong”, but after delating wp default rules my code work.There is some conflict between wp code and my code! Can anyone take solution!

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35. Aurangzeb

    A very nice approach, but I also suggest to go secure with https, because no matter how protected the admin panel is, with passwords, the passwords itself are not secure if it’s not https.

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36. Daljit Singh

    Hey guys, my issue is related to this post but it is little different too.
    I need to password protect my wp-content folder in my hosting.
    I called my godaddy hosting and they said that it is not possible.
    But i need to password protect it.
    Can someone help me out please?

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37. Akhil

    Password Protecting WordPress Admin with Permalink „Post Name” gives error error login page( Redirect too many times). How to solve?

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38. ianx

    Hello sir,
    its mean „Basic Authentication” ?
    how do i using on newest Nginx?

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39. Harmony A-E

    Can I do this for my wp-login?

    The wp-admin is password protected and gives out a 401 if some tries to exit the pop-up (so 0 access without the 1st password).

    But my wp-login allows access to a disfigured wp-login page if someone exits out of the pop-up.

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40. Fabio

    Works fine in my blog. Thanks.

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41. Frank

    That’s a great article.

    However, I’d like to ask you how can I track the who visits the page (IP, etc) even though if they don’t type any username or password or type wrong ones. I can’t seem to find a way to do that.

    Please let me know.
    Thanks!

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Hey Frank,

      Check out our guide on how to monitor user activity in WordPress.

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      • Frank

        Thanks for the reply.

        I installed the Simple History plugin you recommend but it does not seem to track the http authentication either.

        Any ideas?

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        • WPBeginner Support

          Hi Frank,

          Sorry for misunderstanding your question. You can track http authentication in your server logs. However, usually these logs contain all access and errors to your website. Some website hosts offer apps in cPanel that make it easier to browse those logs. On some hosting environments you can even create custom log files of your own.

42. Deivamoorthy

    Thanks for this article. It is really helped me lot save the login form anonymous person. But, i have an issue on my site. Whenever the user visits and entering to the single post page it asks the user enter the username password, Even though they have didn’t accessed the wp -admin. it happens only in Mozilla browser. How to solve this?

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43. Toan

    I has finished setting protect password for wp-admin folder. But i can not registered new account for guest. Because it apperance pop-up login require username/password.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Yes, you will have to either share the username password with the guest, or disable password protection.

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44. paras arora

    sir actually i have changed my admin directory from example.com/wp-admin to example.com/abcde …how to password protect it now

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Just password protect abcde directory instead of wp-admin.

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45. Clecio

    Thank you !

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46. Sarah

    Thanks for this valuable info.I have question I want to setup limit login Attempts if users fails 1st time then try after 24 hrs latter how to I make this on cpanel?

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47. RJ

    Hi there I do password protect my wp-admin directory and I did add that code to my htaccess …but…it is still asking for authorization.

    Any suggestions?

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48. Sacha

    Thanks for the tip!

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49. dipesh

    i dont ve set password for wp-admin folder but still it shows authorization dialog .
    how to solve the issue,

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50. Fabio

    Hello, after the first login in wp-admin I got 500 „Internal Server Error”…

    Fabio

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    • Fabio

      Solved, the problem was in server configuration

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      • Gaurav Agrawal

        Hi, I am also facing the same problem. May I know what are the changes that have to be done in server configuration?

        Please let me know as soon as possible.

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