Just installed. Seems to have installed fine and I can still view my blog, but I'm getting an error that I see other people have had. I tried to log in as admin and got a password error. Reset the password, and when I hit log in, all that happened was that the log-in screen refreshed. I've reset my password seven times, I've cleared cookies and cache and shut down the browser several times, and nothing seems to be working. Arrrgh.
Installed 2.6.3 and now cannot log in (12 posts)
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winterlights
Posted 3 years ago # -
Here's some things to try:
1. logout or logout with http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-login.php?action=logout
2. disable all plugins--if necessary read How to deactivate all plugins when not able to access the administrative menus?
3. clear cookies
4. exit browser
5. make sure local firewall is not causing problem
6. login with http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-login.phpIf WordPress is installed in something other than the root folder please take that into account for the above url examples
Please let us know what does solve your problem.
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Posted 3 years ago #Unfortunately, I did all that, because I saw a post about the same problem halfway down the forum page. None of it's worked, and now I'm at a loss.
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Can you try from another computer?
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Posted 3 years ago #I tried from another web browser (same thing happened in both Firefox and IE), but this is the only computer I have access too.
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Sorry then to make this suggestion!!
Clear your browser cache and cookies. Exit your browser.
Then I'd consider DROPping the database tables and then do the install.php again.
And you might also delete and reupload your WordPress files.
Again sorry--I haven't any other ideas.
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Posted 3 years ago #If I mess with the database tables (I know very little about databases) will that effectively delete all of my old entries?
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Oops, sorry, thought you said you just installed. Yes dropping the tables would cause you to lose everything.
Guess I've got nothing more to add then.
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Posted 3 years ago #I should have been more clear--I just installed the new version, but I've had older versions running for a few years.
Thanks for your help, though.
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When UPGRADING, many people who experienced your problem, solved that problem with one or more of the fixes I described above.
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susssus
Posted 3 years ago #I had the same problem when logging in through http://mydomain.com/wp-admin , but using http://mydomain.com/wp-login.php works, although the error when logging in through /wp-admin is 100% reproduceable.
Something to do with mod_rewrite perhaps? I'm using it and see from the "redirect_to=http..." clogged after the login.php that WordPress seems to be redirecting the login to a wrong place. The only thing that has changed in my setup is the WordPress upgrade, so I gather it's the culprit.
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Sherry Dedman
Posted 3 years ago #I had a client with this problem just yesterday. Their situation is pretty unique, but who knows, may help you.
Turns out they had either moved their installation at the same time as upgrading, or had some old forwarding that wasn't working now. Which sounds pretty vague, but here's what it caused.
I was going to http://www.TheirDomain.com/wp-log-in and couldn't log in. And when trying to do the "forgot password" function, it would just refresh instead of sending a re-set.
So I viewed the source, just for the heck of it. And the url info in there was for something like http://www.TheirDomainBefore.com (i.e. something other than what it should have been).
Meaning they had the wrong url info in their settings within WordPress. Therefore I did this fix: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Quick_fix_method
And got them in. So maybe view your source just for the heck of it and see if the wrong URL info is in there?
It's worth a shot.
-Sherry
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