Migrated Wordpress Can't login to Backend

WordPress Nginx
#1

Hey so I moved my website from bluehost to a 2GB Ram Server using duplicator plugin, Installed EE and wordpress site with w3tc. The site is openning fine but sometimes I can login to the dashboard and sometimes I can’t. Keeps refreshing or sometimes goes in to the dashboard and keeps logging me out.

The domain.com/wp-admin redirecting to http://www.domain.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

Tried resetting the plugins, theme, clearing cache and cookies,deleted the .htaccess still the same.

Any advice?

Thanks

#2

@wyamout,

Is the domain name pointing to your new (2 GB RAM) server same that was pointing to bluehost server.

You can use ee debug to debug your issue.

#3

Hey thank you for your reply, yes it is pointed the site is running fine… just not the backend…

I found this in the error log:

 [error] 5075#0: *49008 limiting requests, excess: 1.200 by zone "one", client: 78.160.251.112, server: domain.com, request: "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1", host: "www.domain.com"
#4

@wyamout

EasyEngine added this to protect wordpress from Brute-Force attack

By default EasyEngine allow 1request/sec to wp-config.php

You can find following lines in your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

# Limit Request
limit_req_status 403;
limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=one:10m rate=1r/s;

Also you can find following lines in your /etc/nginx/common/wpcommon.conf

# Limit access to avoid brute force attack
location = /wp-login.php {
	limit_req zone=one burst=1 nodelay;
	include fastcgi_params;
	fastcgi_pass php;
}
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