401 Authentication Error for WP-Admin

  • lunardat

    (@lunardat)


    9 years ago

    The wp-admin URL for my website displays an antiquated-looking (and broken) login prompt instead of the modern login page. It’s an older browser-based login system of some sort that I’ve never seen before. On top of that, after refusing to authenticate (which doesn’t work anyway), the login page for WP is displayed but all the CSS appears to be removed. Further, images aren’t displaying properly on my main site.

    I recently installed a Let’s Encrypt certificate, and the site is set to be HTTPS-only (even though I can’t find an htaccess file on the server at all, so I don’t know where that setting is). I’m thinking it could be HTTPS-related, and the assets are refusing to load over HTTPS for some reason. I just don’t know why.

    Could anyone help me diagnose and fix this problem?

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  • sinip

    (@sinip)

    9 years ago

    The operation timed out when attempting to contact http://www.lunardatasystems.com.

    If that’s your website…

    Thread Starter lunardat

    (@lunardat)

    9 years ago

    I tried reinstalling the server from scratch after messing around with the nginx configuration files. It seems like there’s an issue that occurs when I try to access the page using my domain rather than my IP. Accessing it via IP works, but when I change the WordPress settings to default to access it via the domain, my wp-admin page is replaced by a weird authentication prompt in the browser which doesn’t allow me to log in.

    Thread Starter lunardat

    (@lunardat)

    9 years ago

    I think it’s a plugin. I’m going to reinstall it from scratch and manually add each plugin individually until I find the one that is causing problems.

    Thread Starter lunardat

    (@lunardat)

    9 years ago

    I figured it out. My host provided a stock WP CentOS image, and it has a pre-loaded admin account. Whenever I switched from IP to URL format in the settings, it must have reverted back to that original admin account instead of the one I set up. I’ve reported the bug to them.

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