Login does not redirect to admin page

Resolved davect
(@davect)

10 years, 1 month ago

I am running WordFennce on several sites with no problems, but have recently installed it on a site on a Windows server.

After installing it, when trying to log in as admin using http://www.mysite.com/wp-login.php or http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin, I am not redirected to http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin but am still on http://www.mysite.com/wp-login.php with a blank screen. I can confirm that I am actually logged in as I can still access the admin screens by going to http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

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Plugin Author Wordfence Security
(@mmaunder)

10 years, 1 month ago

Hi,

Wordfence is not supported on Windows. Sorry.

Regards,

Mark.

alexscheele
(@alexscheele)

10 years, 1 month ago

i am getting exactly the same problem, moved a site to a new hosting provider (Linux) and a site which previously worked great with Wordfence now doesn’t. There is 128mb of memory also.

Annie Spratt
(@annie-spratt)

10 years ago

I have had the Wordfence plugin installed for a good 6 weeks and in the past 3 weeks I have had the same issue. Deactivating all my plugins and re-activating one at time has shown that the Wordfence WordPress plugin is the issue with the blank page with a 200 status instead of the 302 redirect to wp-admin.

Maybe they are due an update soon or something clashes with another popular plugin that’s recently updates, such as Jetpack.

Deactivating or uninstalling the Wordfence plugin fixes the problem. I know it doesn’t tell you why it’s all gone a bit off kilter but at least it confirms your Wordfence suspicions 🙂

If I discover any more I’ll report back!

wo0
(@wo0)

9 years, 11 months ago

How can windows NOT be supported on Wordfence?!

techpoet
(@willibrown)

9 years, 11 months ago

Ah, so that’s the problem. I thought it was a feature (“force admins to hack into own system”)

WordFence does work on a Windows (IIS 6) server. It scans the WordPress files, anyway. Whether it is able to block and blacklist, I can’t tell yet.

In order to get into the dashboard, I just renamed the wordfence plugin folder.

Now to convince the client to get a real host.

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