Another Looped WP-Login Screen

I created a multisite on WordPress today using subdirectories because evidently 1&1 can’t handle multisites using subdomains – go figure, but I’m stuck with 1&1.

The original WordPress site works fine as it did before. So I created a new site and now I’m caught in a redirect loop with the WP-Login screen. You can put the URL into a browser and it’ll show you a text version of the initial WordPress blog page without any formatting – so something’s wrong there too. But it’s the looping that’s killing me.

I have spent almost 9 hours trying every .htaccess and wp-config work around I can find on the internet and none of them work.

I’ve tried adding this code to wp-config:

define(‘ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH’, ‘/’);
define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ”);
define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ”);
define(‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ”);

I’ve tried this in my wp-config:

if(isset($_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’])) {
$list = explode(‘,’,$_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’]);
$_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’] = $list[0];
}
$_SERVER[ ‘SERVER_ADDR’ ] = DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE;
$_SERVER[ ‘REMOTE_ADDR’ ] = DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE;
$_SERVER[ ‘HTTP_HOST’ ] = DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE;

and this:

define( ‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true );
define(‘MULTISITE’, true);
define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false); //or true, depends on your chosen way
define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘localhost’);
define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/wp/’);
define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
define(‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);

There have been more, but I’ve lost track. And I’ve tweaked and edited the .htaccess file in a dozen ways. I’ve also tried adding these:

define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://example.com’);
define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://example.com’);

I’ve deactivated all my plugins which made no difference as well. I’ve cleared cookies, caches, histories, you name it I’ve cleared it. I also changed the permalink settings to plain and checked for capital letters in URLs. I just cannot get it to work. I don’t know if it’s the .htaccess and wp-config files or some setting at 1&1. Anything anyone can suggest would be greatly appreciated.

The .htaccess file is the standard one generated by the WordPress Network Setup in the dashboard:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

And my wp-config file is also straight from the Network Setup:

define(‘MULTISITE’, true);
define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false);
define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘southpacificwwiimuseum.com’);
define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’);
define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
define(‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);