Volete limitare l’accesso all’area di amministrazione di WordPress per motivi di sicurezza?
Se il team è piccolo, una buona soluzione è quella di limitare l’accesso solo agli indirizzi IP utilizzati dai membri del team.
In questo articolo vi mostreremo come limitare l’accesso all’amministrazione di WordPress per indirizzo IP, passo dopo passo.
Perché limitare l’accesso dell’amministratore di WordPress in base all’indirizzo IP?
Se gestite un sito web con WordPress, dovete prendere sul serio la sicurezza del vostro sito. Sebbene il software di base di WordPress sia molto sicuro, potete fare di più per proteggervi dagli hacker e dagli attacchi brute force.
Gli hacker possono far cadere il vostro sito web, oltre a danneggiare le vostre entrate e la vostra reputazione. Possono rubare dati o addirittura distribuire malware ai visitatori del vostro sito web e far sì che il vostro dominio venga aggiunto in blacklist da Google e altri.
Un modo intelligente per bloccare gli hacker e migliorare la sicurezza di WordPress è proteggere l’area di amministrazione di WordPress da accessi non autorizzati.
Se solo voi o alcuni utenti fidati avete bisogno di accedere all’area di amministrazione, un buon modo per farlo è limitare l’accesso a wp-admin e alla pagina di accesso a WordPress agli indirizzi IP del vostro team.
Ogni membro del team si collegherà al vostro sito WordPress utilizzando un indirizzo IP specifico per ogni sede. Se bloccate l’accesso a tutti gli altri indirizzi IP, un hacker non sarà in grado di accedere al vostro sito web anche se ha scoperto nome utente e password.
Al contrario, verrà visualizzato il messaggio di errore: ‘Vietato. Non hai i permessi per accedere a questa risorsa”.
Vediamo come limitare l’accesso all’amministrazione di WordPress in base all’indirizzo IP.
Come limitare l’accesso all’amministrazione di WordPress in base all’indirizzo IP
La prima cosa da fare è stilare un elenco degli indirizzi IP utilizzati da tutti coloro che devono accedere al vostro sito web WordPress. Se qualcuno lavora da più sedi, dovrete raccogliere gli indirizzi IP di ciascuno.
Possono imparare il loro indirizzo IP visitando un sito come SupportAlly.
Una volta stilato l’elenco, è necessario modificare un file sul sito web. Dovrete utilizzare un client FTP o l’applicazione di gestione dei file del vostro fornitore di hosting. Se non avete mai usato l’FTP, potete consultare la nostra guida su come usare l’FTP per l’uploader dei file su WordPress.
È necessario utilizzare il software per navigare nella cartella /wp-admin/ del sito web. Una volta lì, si deve cercare il file .htaccess. Si tratta di un file nascosto, quindi se non riuscite a vederlo, potreste dover abilitare l’opzione mostra file nascosti nel vostro software.
Se il file non esiste nella cartella, occorre crearne uno nuovo e salvarlo con il nome .htaccess nella cartella /wp-admin/.
Attenzione: Non modificate il file .htaccess principale, altrimenti bloccherete i visitatori dal frontend del vostro sito web! Assicuratevi di modificare /wp-admin/.htaccess.
Per prima cosa è necessario scaricare una copia del file sul computer come backup. Una volta fatto ciò, è necessario modificare .htaccess e incollare il seguente codice:
AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "WordPress Admin Access Control"
AuthType Basic
<LIMIT GET>
order deny,allow
deny from all
# whitelist Syed's IP address
allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx
# whitelist David's IP address
allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx
# whitelist Amanda's IP address
allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx
# whitelist Muhammad's IP address
allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx
# whitelist Work IP address
allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx
</LIMIT>
Modificate il file in corrispondenza dei nomi dei membri del vostro team e incollate gli indirizzi IP raccolti in precedenza per sostituirli a quelli di xx.xx.xx.xxx.
Una volta salvato il file, solo questi indirizzi IP potranno accedere all’amministrazione di WordPress.
Ricordate che se il vostro indirizzo IP cambia o cercate di accedere al vostro sito web da una nuova posizione, sarete bloccati dall’area di amministrazione di WordPress. Dovrete aggiungere il vostro nuovo indirizzo IP al file /wp-admin/.htaccess.
Speriamo che questo tutorial vi abbia aiutato a capire come limitare l’accesso all’amministrazione di WordPress in base all’indirizzo IP. Potreste anche consultare il nostro tutorial su WordPress su come ottenere un certificato SSL gratuito per il vostro sito web o dare un’occhiata al nostro elenco dei plugin indispensabili per far crescere il vostro sito.
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John says
My wp-admin folder doesn’t contain an .htaccess file. What am I missing.
WPBeginner Support says
You would need to have your FTP or file manager show hidden files if you do not see it.
Admin
Mukund says
How to find my ip address for hiding wp-admin folder?
WPBeginner Support says
There are multiple methods to find your IP, one of the simple ones would be to use a site like supportally.com
Admin
Chris says
You have to enable
module authz_groupfile
“sudo a2enmod authz_groupfile”
and restart apache
Rajat Shankhdhar says
Not working for me. Code restricting admin to get access even I put the ip in a whitelist.
Rostyslav says
After this line, you must put a condition for permission to allow php files to prevent conflicts:
allow from all
Solace says
I tried the .htaccess password protection method.
It works, but I tried it on a site with Woocommerce, but then my customers weren’t able to log in.
Just saying that because it seems no one has mentioned that it doesn’t work with sites that need customers to log in !
Miguel says
Hello, thank you for the tutorial. Unfortunately, I have not been able to make this .htaccess file to work correctly because it is denying access to the only IP address I included, my own… I am certain I copied your code exactly and I typed my IP correctly. The .htaccess file was saved under: /wp-admin/.htaccess
Am I missing something? Thanks
Miguel says
I must add that I am working on a localhost installation.
WPBeginner Support says
Hi Miguel,
Instead of your IP address, try adding 127.0.0.1
That’s your localhost IP address. If adding the IP alone doesn’t work, then add the following line before the above code:
Require localAdmin
Pankaj Murthalia says
how to block the access to wp admin???
Emaan Ali says
Hi Guys,
I have blocked the wp-admin with .htaccess as mentioned in this article. But i am having one problem that my admin-ajax file is also being restricted on public site.
My wordpress theme uses much of admin ajax functionality and that I have put the IP limitation access on wp-admin folder so its not accessible for all IP’s.
Does anyone find the solution for this ? If so please share .
Thanks in advance
Emaan
Len says
Hi, This seems really a helpful one. Maybe you could help me. Instead of whitelisting an IP can we allow access for specific countries in .htaccess file? Hoping you can help me. Thank you very much.
Bridget says
Thanks! This was the only solution that worked for me after trying so many
Scotty says
Hi, This does work. I checked and am “forbidden” to login on any other computer. I can’t even see the login panel. However, I am still getting about 24 failed log in attempts per day from all different IP addresses. Any ideas how there getting around this? It’s some kind of brute force attack? Thanks, Scott.
WPBeginner Support says
Yes quite possibly. Make sure your .htaccess password is a difficult one.
Admin
Scotty says
Thanks. Your site has been very helpful. If you have moment maybe you could answer one more question. I followed your tutorials — and they worked. I blocked access to my admin folder with htaccess and added a password on top of that. I tested and even if people were to break the password, which they haven’t, they wouldn’t have access to the folder from any IP address except mine. However, I’m still getting about 12 failed logins per day. Any ideas what is happening and where to go to fix it? I was hacked once, but cleared the files out of my uploads folder.
Scotty says
NVM: This page answered my question for now. Great info
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/11-vital-tips-and-hacks-to-protect-your-wordpress-admin-area/
Sehrish says
And how to allow access to only wordpress adminitrator ?What code i will write without any ip ? I just need to know a generic function that get admin related info.Becuse i have to restrict my plugin uploads from other user.And Whoever using this plugin i have to get its admin info to restrict contents from other and allow only to admin of website.
Praveen says
Many Many thanks sir, I have test this on my localhost system it works very well.
Kim says
I tried this (after previously successfully password protecting my wp-admin directory and fixing the redirect error per your other article), but then I get a pop-up asking for a user name and password for the “WordPress Admin Access Control”. What user name and password am I supposed to be using for this new pop-up? Neither the wordpress admin logon nor the wp-admin directory logon work for it.
Thanks!
Kim says
Oh, I believe I figured out the problem; seems to work as long as I make sure to have the added code at the very beginning.
Jordyn says
I have a big problem
I did what you said about creating the .htaccess and putting in the code snippet. It didn’t work so I deleted the .htaccess file and now I can’t login to my dashboard! It’s just a white screen
Please help!!!
Thanks
Editorial Staff says
That’s a fairly unlikely outcome. You deleted the .htaccess file in your /wp-admin/ folder correct?
Admin
Jordyn says
All I did was create the file in my wp-admin folder and when it didn’t work I deleted it from the wp-admin folder. I’m not sure what happened but, after a crazy rabbit trail and many shots in the dark, I was able to correct the problem by adding to the top of my login.php file. I still don’t know what went wrong or why what I did fixed it…. but at least its fixed. I may try this again when I’m feeling brave.
Jordyn says
it erased the code snippet
it was supposed to say “…by adding “” to the top…”
Jordyn says
less than sign ? ob_start(); ? greater than sign
Peter says
First I did not manage to make your password protect work
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-password-protect-your-wordpress-admin-wp-admin-directory
at least this one works.
It is interesting, that I wp-admin page gets into an infinite redirect when I enter a wrong IP address, not my one.
The infinite redirect seems to be hence an authorization problem.
Raheem Khan says
Hi WPB, I don’t think it will be working in Pakistan because every time we reset or turn of our DSL modem so the IP address automatically changes. if any other tip please reply me.
Thanks
Editorial Staff says
You should look at our tip for password protecting the wp-admin directory.
Admin
awan says
yes it can be done on https, it’s just .htaccess
wpbeginnerfan says
Can this be done on https sites? I can’t get it to work.
andrew says
hi, how to make .htaccess with dynamic ip (non static ip)
my ip is always change xxx.xxx.xxx.12 xxx.xxx.xxx.453 xxx.xxx.xxx.076
please help…
Editorial Staff says
Then this solution is not for you.
Admin
Joe says
You can harden your wordpress install via .htaccess whitelisting even if you have a dynamic IP address. You can whitelist a range of IP addresses using a /24 or /16 range. While this allows more access than if you always knew the IP you wanted to allow, it still prohibits access from almost the entire internet.
Just add /24 to the end of the allow from line to allow the whole class C subnet (256 IPs), or add /16 to allow the whole 65,536 range. i.e.
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.0/24
will allow access to IP addresses from xxx.xxx.xxx.0 – xxx.xxx.xxx.255. and
allow from xxx.xxx.0.0/16
will allow access from IP addresses from xxx.xxx.0.0 – xxx.xxx.255.255
Kyle says
You say not to do the root site’s .htaccess file…why is that? Because you just want to limit access to the /wp-admin folder?
So…if I wanted to have a WordPress site hosted externally but used as an internal company resource so that only people using IPs of our company could access it…if I edited the root folder’s .htaccess folder to only allow IPs from our domain…that would work the same way your /wp-admin fix is, but for the entire site, correct?
Editorial Staff says
Yes Kyle, the reason why we said do not put this code in the root file because then it will limit your site access to only these IP as well. But if you are trying to make a site just for your company’s staff can access it only from work, then you would want to put the .htaccess file in the root folder.
Admin
Kyle says
Fantastic…thank you for the quick reply!
Bill says
Why just limit GETs? You might want to limit POSTs as well!
Darrin says
Nice tip. I will be doing this.
Alim Bolar says
Can I limit access based on other criterias? Like I need only my laptop to access a particular folder.. I could access it from anywhere so it would be difficult to specify an IP as my internet access would be based on DHCP. Is there a unique identifier for every machine or something like that that can be used as a criteria?