@ Steve – Ok I see the problem. So now to figure what is causing the problem.
The top of your wp-admin htacces file is this code and text:
<Files *> order deny,allow deny from all allow from 98.253.67.84 </Files> OR WORDPRESS WILL BREAK # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F] works in /wp-admin without breaking WordPress # RewriteRule . /index.php [L] will break WordPress
That code is not BPS htaccess code and somehow the help text that should be there is mostly gone except for the one snippet of help text that is no longer commented out because all the rest of the BPS code and help text that should be there is not there: “OR WORDPRESS WILL BREAK”
This is what should be at the top of your BPS wp-admin htaccess file:
# BULLETPROOF PRO 12.2 WP-ADMIN SECURE .HTACCESS # DO NOT ADD URL REWRITING IN THIS FILE OR WORDPRESS WILL BREAK # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F] works in /wp-admin without breaking WordPress # RewriteRule . /index.php [L] will break WordPress
So it appears that you are using custom htaccess code in your wp-admin htaccess file. Did you add that code that is not BPS standard htaccess code? If not, do you have any plugins installed that would do something like that? I find it hard to believe that doing a backup would add non-BPS code in the wp-admin htaccess file and also strip out/delete existing BPS htaccess code.