Login page blank – “Not available.” – A Solution

This is an issue I solved as a novice. I suspect others might find this useful in their explorations.

After installing and setting AIOWPS on one of three web sites I noticed that when logging in to the site’s Admin in a new day session I would get a blank page with just the message “Not available.”

I followed the usual instructions to go through ftp and reset .htaccess and rename the AIOWPS folder, which successfully brought me back into the site’s Admin.

I have already set the security high enough to include a secretword for the Admin path to the active web site. When logging out and back in to the site Admin in that working session there was no problem. The issue only seemed to arise in the following day or session a few days’ later.

It took a while to discover what was happening after I noticed that the secretword path was being bounced back to the original installation path (the server where the site was installed (serverlocation/wp-admin/….) rather than following the active path (my-domain/secretword/..)

Being a novice I had to try a range of options, thinking it was some configuration in AIOWPS that I had or had not switched on, but nothing was solving the “Not available.” login message and blank page.

Finally I decided to look into the WP configurations to see if there was a conflict coming from that side. That is where I found the problem and solution.

When moving the site from test to live I have reset the (URL) paths in the WP Dashboard Settings\General. However I had not set them both.

The first setting: WordPress Address (URL) [server path]
The second setting: Site Address (URL) [site path]

It was this difference which was causing the “Not available.” message and throwing my login over into the original server/wp-admin/… location and causing the login to fail on to a blank page.

Resetting both (URL) entries to the live site path solved the issue, and if you have similar problems I hope it works for you too.