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1. NotThePainter
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have several wordpress blogs hosted at bluehost. Some of them were hacked and bluehost, quite correctly, has given us 7 days to upgrade to 2.6.5 or they'll shut them down.

   I'm having problems upgrading!

   Actually, the upgrade seems to have gone fine, I can see the blog but I can't login, not even to run wp-admin/upgrade.php, when I go there, it asks me to login, I do, and some URLs flash by in the address bar, then I'm back on the login page again.

   I tried just logging in, just in case the upgrade worked, nope. I can't. It isn't a forgotten password issue. If I put a "bad" password in, I get the password incorrect screen. And I even tried resetting the password, the reset worked, but I still can't login.

   I was upgrading this one site from 2.1.3 I think. Is there another step I need to do?

   Thank you so much.

   Paul

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Have you ran the upgrade script? See step 2 at Upgrading_WordPress.

   Have you cleared your browser cache and cookies?

3. NotThePainter
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   That's where I'm failing. I trying to run the upgrade script. I really didn't want to clear out my cache and cookies, so I used a different browser on two different machines, couldn't login on any of them. I get the login screen, I put the info in, and then I get the login screen again.

   I'm reinfected again, sigh. I'll try again...

4. cregy
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Just had the same problem. I'll try upgrading as well and then see how it goes. I even requested a new password and still can't get in.

   Rich

5. cregy
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Just downloaded the code again (just in case) and upgraded the site. It told me my database was up to date and didn't need upgrading. I then attempted to login and I am just redirected back to the login screen with a red box saying please login again.

   Rich

6. cregy
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   See this post for a fix:
   Seems to be a Safari cookie problem

7. NotThePainter
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Yes, that last link did the trick!

   I did not want to clear my cookies however!

   So after following the directions on upgrading exactly, I then made one further change. When I went to do the upgrade.php part I created a new user on my Macintosh, logged in as that user, then went to Safari and did the upgrade.

   That way I could have a cookie-free environment.

   And yes, it all worked well. Thanks all!

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