Title: Unknown controller &#8216;user&#8217;
Last modified: February 22, 2021

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# Unknown controller ‘user’

 *  [mobobzor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mobobzor/)
 * (@mobobzor)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-controller-user/)
 * Hello,
    I’ve installed both plugins, sent request to get the nonce (it returned
   200 OK) When I try to send POST to [http://site.com/api/user/generate_auth_cookie/?username=john&password=PASSWORD-HERE](http://site.com/api/user/generate_auth_cookie/?username=john&password=PASSWORD-HERE)
   it returns 200 OK with { “status”: “error”, “error”: “Unknown controller ‘user’.”}
 * What can be wrong and how I could fix that?

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 *  [alexlytle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexlytle/)
 * (@alexlytle)
 * [4 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-controller-user/#post-14491759)
 * Yes i get the same problem

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-controller-user/#post-14491759)
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