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  1. abakisensoy

    abakisensoy Member

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    Hi


    I use htpasswd with centmin option 22.

    My login pages are restricted but still getting failed login attempt.

    Any idea how is that possible?
     
  2. eva2000

    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    What web app/php script is this with ?

    You can check your login pages curl header checks for HTTP status code to verify HTTP password is working
    Code (Text):
    curl -Ik https://yourdomain.com/loginpage.php

    or
    Code (Text):
    curl -Ik https://yourdomain.com/loginpage

    see if 401 unauthorized or 403 permission denied status exists or 200 HTTP ok status
     
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    I see 401 unauthorized but still getting Sucuri Alert, Failed Login, mails. This start happening after moving to centminmod.
     
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    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    what IP addresses are reported by Sucuri Alert ? got examples ?

    are you behind Cloudflare proxy ?
     
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    Yes, Behind cloudflare.

    IPs from microsoft and OVH very different locations too
     
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    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    you can check your nginx site vhost access and error logs to see what user-agents are used could be command line attempts to log in
    Code (Text):
    domain=yourdomain.com
    grep 'ipaddress' /home/nginx/domains/$domain/log/access.log
    grep 'ipaddress' /home/nginx/domains/$domain/log/error.log
    
     
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    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    Have you tried resetting wp-login.php HTTP password before ?

    You can also try to reset Wordpress wp-login.php HTTP password created by centmin.sh menu option 22 wordpress auto installer, you can use htpasswd.sh script
    Code (Text):
    vhostname=yourdomain.com
    /usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd.sh create /home/nginx/domains/$vhostname/htpasswd_wplogin USERNAME PASSWORD
    

    where, you change USERNAME to your desired username and PASSWORD to your password and change yourdomain.com to your wordpress site's domain name

    then restart nginx
    Code (Text):
    ngxrestart
     
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    -> grep 'ipaddress' /home/nginx/domains/$domain/log/access.log
    logs are filled with this :
    'ipaddress' "POST //xmlrpc.php HTTP/2.0" 200 500 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36"

    also I change my wp-login page to /login-from-here

    I updated my vhost config :

    When I visit login-from-here page I write user and pass from htpasswd but page return
    404 Not Found
     
    Last edited: Sep 10, 2020
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    @eva2000;

    What should I do? How can I change wp-login page ?
     
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    don't bother changing wp-login.php you're already protected i.e. failed login attempts. As you're on Cloudflare, you can use Cloudflare Access to protect wp-login.php too. I do that on servermanager.guide
     
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    I know but i want to learn :)

    I follow your all guides. You are the king of hosting guides.