November 5, 2006
Strange performancing problem with wordpress
Just been trying to figure why my previously working copy of performancing was refusing to login to this blog but working fine for others.
Even after updating wordpress, trying a clean install of the scripts creating new users, checking permissions, manually checking the DB to ensure hashes were being written properly etc etc, no joy 
the users accounts could login as normal through wordpress but not remotely using xmlrpc.php.
It would appear that my webhost must have disallowed access to xmlrpc.php to thwart malicious scripts attempting to scan for vulnerable installations.
As soon as I renamed xmlrpc.php to somethingelse.php it started working splendidly again. An email would have been nice and saved me a couple of hours of head scratching…
Filed by dave at 2:38 pm under Uncategorized