¿Quieres aprender a proteger con contraseña tu directorio de administrador de WordPress?
Añadir otra capa de protección de contraseña a su directorio de administrador de WordPress puede ser una gran manera de mejorar su seguridad en WordPress.
En este artículo, usted aprenderá cómo usted puede contraseña-proteger su directorio del wp-admin fácilmente.
¿Por qué proteger con contraseña el directorio de administrador de WordPress?
Al proteger con contraseña su directorio de administrador de WordPress, añade una capa adicional de seguridad al punto de entrada / registro más importante de su sitio web WordPress.
Tu escritorio de administrador de WordPress es el eje central de tu sitio. Es donde publicará entradas y páginas, personalizará su tema, instalará plugins de WordPress y mucho más.
A menudo, cuando los hackers intentan entrar en su sitio web, lo hacen a través de la pantalla de wp-admin mediante un ataque de fuerza bruta.
Puede ayudar a proteger su sitio web contra posibles ataques utilizando una contraseña segura y limitando los intentos de acceder / acceso.
Para estar aún más seguro, también puedes proteger con contraseña el directorio wp-admin. Así, cuando alguien intente acceder a su área de administrador, tendrá que introducir un nombre de usuario y una contraseña antes de llegar a la página de acceso / acceso de WordPress.
Dicho esto, echemos un vistazo a cómo puede proteger con contraseña su directorio de administrador de WordPress paso a paso.
El primer método es el recomendado para la mayoría de los usuarios, y puedes utilizar los enlaces rápidos que aparecen a continuación para saltar directamente al método que desees utilizar:
Tutorial en vídeo
Si prefiere instrucciones escritas, siga leyendo.
Método 1: Proteger wp-admin con contraseña usando Privacidad de directorios (Recomendado)
La forma más sencilla de proteger con contraseña el directorio de administradores de WordPress es utilizar la aplicación de privacidad de directorios de su proveedor de alojamiento de WordPress.
En primer lugar, debe acceder al panel de control de su cuenta de alojamiento y hacer clic en la opción “Privacidad del directorio” de la sección Archivos del panel de control cPanel de su sitio web.
Nota: La mayoría de los alojamientos web que utilizan cPanel, como Bluehost, tendrán pasos similares. Sin embargo, su Escritorio puede ser ligeramente diferente de nuestras capturas de pantalla, dependiendo de su proveedor de alojamiento.
Esto le lleva a una pantalla que enumera todos los diferentes directorios de su servidor. Debe encontrar la carpeta que contiene los archivos de su sitio web.
La mayoría de los propietarios de sitios web lo encuentran al hacer clic en la carpeta “public_html”.
Esto muestra todos los archivos del sitio web que ha instalado en su servidor.
A continuación, deberá hacer clic en la carpeta con el nombre de dominio de su sitio web.
En esa carpeta, verá una carpeta wp-admin.
En lugar de hacer clic en el nombre de la carpeta, tendrás que hacer clic en el botón “Editar” situado a su lado.
Accederá a una pantalla en la que podrá activar la protección mediante contraseña.
Simplemente marca la casilla que dice ‘Proteger este directorio con contraseña’. Si lo desea, también puede dar a su directorio un nombre como ‘Área de administrador’ para ayudarle a recordar.
Una vez hecho esto, tendrás que hacer clic en el botón “Guardar”.
Esto le llevará a una página donde aparecerá el mensaje de confirmación.
Ahora, tendrá que hacer clic en el botón “Volver” y accederá a una pantalla en la que podrá crear un usuario que podrá acceder a este directorio.
Se te pedirá que introduzcas un nombre de usuario y una contraseña y que los confirmes. Asegúrese de anotar su nombre de usuario y contraseña en un lugar seguro, como una aplicación de gestión de contraseñas.
Asegúrate de hacer clic en el botón “Guardar” cuando lo hayas hecho.
Ahora, cuando alguien intente acceder a su directorio wp-admin, se le indicará que introduzca el nombre de usuario y la contraseña que creó anteriormente.
Método 2: Proteger wp-admin con contraseña usando un código
También puede proteger manualmente su directorio de administrador de WordPress con una contraseña. Para ello, tendrá que crear dos archivos llamados .htpasswd y .htaccess.
Nota: Añadir cualquier código a su sitio WordPress puede ser peligroso. Incluso un pequeño error puede causar errores importantes en su sitio web. Solo recomendamos este método para usuarios avanzados.
Creación del archivo .htaccess
En primer lugar, abra su editor de texto preferido y nombre el nuevo archivo .htaccess.
A continuación, copie el siguiente fragmento de código y añádalo al archivo:
AuthName "Admins Only"
AuthUserFile /home/user/public_html/example.com/wp-admin/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthType basic
require user yourusername
Asegúrese de cambiar la ruta “AuthUserFile” a la ubicación donde subirá el archivo .htpasswd y cambie “yourusername” por el nombre de usuario que desea utilizar para acceder.
No olvides guardar el archivo cuando hayas terminado.
Creación del archivo .htpasswd
Una vez hecho esto, deberá crear un archivo .htpasswd.
Para ello, abra un editor de texto y cree un archivo llamado .htpasswd. Este archivo mostrará tu nombre de usuario junto con tu contraseña en un formato cifrado.
La forma más sencilla de generar la contraseña cifrada es con un generador htpasswd.
Sólo tiene que introducir su nombre de usuario y contraseña, seleccionar el formato de cifrado y hacer clic en el botón “Crear archivo .htpasswd”.
El generador htpasswd mostrará una línea de texto que deberá pegar en su archivo .htpasswd. Asegúrese de guardar el archivo una vez hecho esto.
Subida de .htaccess y .htpasswd al directorio wp-admin
El último paso es subir los dos archivos que has creado a la carpeta wp-admin de tu sitio web.
Deberá conectarse a su cuenta de alojamiento de WordPress mediante un cliente FTP o la herramienta de gestión de archivos en línea que le proporcione su proveedor de alojamiento. Para más detalles, consulte nuestra guía para principiantes sobre cómo utilizar FTP para subir archivos a WordPress.
Para este tutorial, utilizaremos FileZilla porque es gratuito y funciona tanto en Mac como en Windows.
Una vez que se haya conectado a su sitio web, verá los archivos de su ordenador en la ventana de la izquierda y los archivos de su sitio web en la de la derecha. A la izquierda, debe navegar hasta la ubicación donde guardó los archivos .htaccess y .htpasswd.
A continuación, a la derecha, debe ir al directorio wp-admin del sitio web que desea proteger. La mayoría de los usuarios tendrán que hacer doble clic en la carpeta public_html, luego en la carpeta con su nombre de dominio y, por último, en la carpeta wp-admin.
Ahora, puede seleccionar los dos archivos de la izquierda y hacer clic en “Subir” en el menú del botón derecho o simplemente arrastrar los archivos a la ventana de la izquierda.
Ahora, su directorio ‘wp-admin’ estará protegido por contraseña.
Diagnosticar la protección de contraseña de wp-admin
Dependiendo de cómo estén establecidos tu servidor y tu sitio web, existe la posibilidad de que te encuentres con errores de WordPress. Estos errores pueden corregirse añadiendo cuidadosamente código a tu archivo .htaccess.
Nota: Este es el archivo .h taccess ubicado en la carpeta principal de tu sitio web, no el que subiste a la carpeta ‘wp-admin’. Si tiene problemas para encontrarlo, consulte nuestra guía sobre por qué no puede encontrar.htaccess y cómo localizarlo.
Corrección del error Ajax no funciona
Uno de los errores más comunes es que la funcionalidad Ajax puede dejar de funcionar en el front-end de su sitio. Si usted tiene plugins de WordPress que requieren Ajax, como la búsqueda en vivo Ajax o formularios de contacto Ajax, entonces usted se dará cuenta de que estos plugins no funcionarán más.
Para corregir esto, simplemente añada el siguiente código al archivo .htaccess que se encuentra en su carpeta wp-admin:
<Files admin-ajax.php>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any
</Files>
Corrección del error 404 y de demasiadas redirecciones
Otros dos errores que puede encontrar son el error 404 y el error de demasiadas redirecciones.
La forma más sencilla de corregirlos es abrir su archivo .htaccess principal situado en el directorio de su sitio web y añadir la siguiente línea de código antes de las reglas de WordPress:
ErrorDocument 401 default
Bonificación: Las mejores guías de WordPress para la seguridad de wp-admin
Ahora que ya sabe cómo proteger con contraseña su directorio wp-admin, puede que le interese consultar estas guías para hacer que su área de administrador sea más segura:
- Cómo restringir el acceso de administrador de WordPress por dirección IP
- Consejos vitales para proteger el área de administrador de WordPress (actualizado)
- Cómo añadir una URL de acceso personalizada en WordPress (paso a paso)
- Cómo y por qué debería limitar los intentos de acceso en WordPress
- Cómo añadir la autenticación de dos factores en WordPress (método gratuito)
- Cómo añadir preguntas de seguridad a la pantalla de acceso de WordPress
- Cómo forzar a los usuarios a cambiar sus contraseñas en WordPress – Caducar contraseña
- Cómo restablecer las contraseñas de todos los usuarios en WordPress
Esperamos que este artículo te haya ayudado a aprender cómo proteger con contraseña tu directorio de administrador de WordPress (wp-admin). También puedes consultar nuestra guía sobre cómo conseguir un dominio de correo electrónico gratuito y nuestra selección de los mejores servicios de marketing por correo electrónico para pequeñas empresas.
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Mrteesurez says
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 ??
WPBeginner Support says
These are different methods to achieve the same result so it would depend on your preference for which one you would use.
Administrador
Mark says
Is there anyway for hackers to gain access to this password and even change it, like in phpMyAdmin ?
WPBeginner Support says
They would need access to your hosting provider or site files for this guide.
Administrador
Salman says
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?
WPBeginner Support says
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
Administrador
Jiří Vaněk says
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.
Jiří Vaněk says
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.
WPBeginner Support says
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.
Administrador
Jose says
Ajax fix worked fine. Thanks a lot for this.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our article could help
Administrador
Umer Yaseen says
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?
WPBeginner Support says
This would show the same prompt for users trying to log in using the wp-login.php
Administrador
nadia says
you are the best. thanks for thousand time like allways.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad you’ve found our content helpful
Administrador
Lordemmaculate says
I want to do this but my server is Nginx not Apache so I can’t use .htaccess
WPBeginner Support says
We’ll see if we can add a method for that type of server when we update this article
Administrador
Rajah says
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?
WPBeginner Support says
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.
Administrador
Webo says
Very good, Thank you…
WPBeginner Support says
You’re welcome
Administrador
Izzy says
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…
WPBeginner Support says
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.
Administrador
Ahsan Ali says
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?
WPBeginner Support says
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
Administrador
Onyenucheya Somto says
please where can I find my main WordPress .htaccess file
WPBeginner Support says
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.
Administrador
CHHRIS says
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?
WPBeginner Support says
For that, you would want to remove this protection unless you wanted to give each user a login for the httpassword
Administrador
Jose says
My wp-admin login page is broken after use that code.
I set the ajax fixit, but, still broken.
WPBeginner Support says
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
Administrador
Rahul Yogi says
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.
WPBeginner Support says
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
Administrador
Rahul Yogi says
Thanks buddy, everything is working fine.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad to hear
Brian says
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
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our guide could help
Administrador
Deb says
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.
WPBeginner Support says
Glad our article could help
Administrador
Garry says
All I get after adding the above code in a .htacess file on /wp-admin folder is 500 internal server error.
WPBeginner Support says
If the htaccess method is not working you could remove the code and then use the cpanel method for password protecting the directory
Administrador
Colleen says
I did this, followed the link for the error message and for some reason I don’t have a .htaccess file!
WPBeginner Support says
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/
Administrador
Samwel says
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
WPBeginner Support says
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/
Administrador
maria hag says
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
WPBeginner Support says
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
Administrador
taher says
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?
WPBeginner Support says
You may want to ensure your caching is cleared and if that error continues, reach out to Wordfence about their plugin
Administrador
Amit Mukherjee says
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.
WPBeginner Support says
Hi Amit,
Yes you can remove password protection at anytime.
Administrador
mary-anne J. says
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
Keri says
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?
WPBeginner Support says
Hi Keri,
Please review your settings in cPanel to make sure you didn’t miss anything.
Administrador
Keri says
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.
Valentin says
> 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
Amigan says
How could we integrate this solution on IIs?
Thanks in advance for your help!
pawan singh says
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.
WPBeginner Support says
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.
Administrador
Robbiegod says
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.
Arinze Ifeanyi says
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?
Rony Ahamed says
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 ?
Adrian says
Do you have a method using IIS? I’ll be glad if you have. I’m very new to WordPress running in IIS server.
pawan says
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.
Edgar says
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!
Aurangzeb says
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.
Daljit Singh says
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?
Akhil says
Password Protecting WordPress Admin with Permalink “Post Name” gives error error login page( Redirect too many times). How to solve?
ianx says
Hello sir,
its mean “Basic Authentication” ?
how do i using on newest Nginx?
Harmony A-E says
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.
Fabio says
Works fine in my blog. Thanks.
Frank says
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!
WPBeginner Support says
Hey Frank,
Check out our guide on how to monitor user activity in WordPress.
Administrador
Frank says
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?
WPBeginner Support says
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.
Deivamoorthy says
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?
Toan says
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.
WPBeginner Support says
Yes, you will have to either share the username password with the guest, or disable password protection.
Administrador
paras arora says
sir actually i have changed my admin directory from example.com/wp-admin to example.com/abcde …how to password protect it now
WPBeginner Support says
Just password protect abcde directory instead of wp-admin.
Administrador
Clecio says
Thank you !
Sarah says
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?
RJ says
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?
Sacha says
Thanks for the tip!
dipesh says
i dont ve set password for wp-admin folder but still it shows authorization dialog .
how to solve the issue,
Fabio says
Hello, after the first login in wp-admin I got 500 “Internal Server Error”…
Fabio
Fabio says
Solved, the problem was in server configuration
Gaurav Agrawal says
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.