Dear support,

I noticed an issue with the new version of the plugin (6.0) which now has an issue when trying to change the wp-admin path. This worked in previous versions of the plugin, not in v6.

The problem is as follows:
– Upon changing the wp-admin path and clicking save (as an example I’ll use admin123 as the new path), the dashboard is supposed to redirect to a page that instructs you on what changes need to be made in the wp-config.php file however instead, it produces an WP error page stating that access to this page is not permitted.

– At this point, wp-admin access cannot be reestablished without resetting HMWP however this again can’t be done via the dashboard.

– Because I’ve done this before, I manually added the below entry into the wp-config.php file and saved it. This then allowed me to visit any 404 page on the site after being logged in, and then manually changing the URL to wp-admin. (Note that the previously saved wp-admin path was not accepted, however I still needed to add it to wp-config.php to regain access which is completely counter-intuitive)

Line added to wp-config: define(“ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH”, “/admin123”);

– After regaining access to wp-admin using the path /wp-admin, I could then reset HMWP and comment out the above wp-config parameter, which then brought everything back to normal.

Note that I tried this on a few deployments, all with clean HMWP installs and they all had the same issue.

I won’t b able to provide login details so please help provide thorough troubleshooting steps to help identify the issue.

Many thanks.