Can’t access admin; otherwise site okay

Resolved Rich Owings
(@gpsmapper)

14 years, 3 months ago

I’ve got an old site that is giving me a 404 when I try to access admin. I’ve looked over similar threads but haven’t seen anything that looks relevant to my particular issue. All the web pages work fine.

This is a site I created when I knew nothing and it is still on 2.2.1. I want to recover access, and then update it, preferably in that order. Any ideas?

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MichaelH
(@michaelh)

14 years, 3 months ago

Might need to get the 2.2.1 at http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/ and upload those files to your host to be able to login.

See Uploading WordPress to a remote host and Resetting Your Password.

Good results reported when people at 2.2.1 upgrade to 2.3, then from 2.3 to 2.5, then 2.5 to 2.7, then 2.7 to 2.9.1.

Shane G.
(@shane-g-1)

14 years, 3 months ago

Hi,

Check with this article:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Login_Trouble

Thanks,

Shane G.

Thread Starter Rich Owings
(@gpsmapper)

14 years, 3 months ago

@shane G – Thanks, I’ll give it a try.

@michaelh – I’ll try the less drastic approach first, but I do appreciate the upgrade path suggestions. That should be very helpful.

Thread Starter Rich Owings
(@gpsmapper)

14 years, 3 months ago

I’m trying to work through the relevant options in http://codex.wordpress.org/Login_Trouble. I tried disabling plugins (by renaming the folder) and uploading a new wp-login.php file. That gave me a login screen, but I still get a 404 after submitting my userid/pw. I was going to try and edit the users table, but the md5 hasher isn’t working for me.

Any suggestions? Otherwise, I think I’ll just try uploading 2.2.1 again as if I were updating.

Thread Starter Rich Owings
(@gpsmapper)

14 years, 3 months ago

Here’s another question. Any way to do an XML export without access to the admin panel? I’d like to have a full XML export file in case it’s desirable to restore from that.

Thread Starter Rich Owings
(@gpsmapper)

14 years, 3 months ago

Hey guys, I’m in! Re-installing 2.2.1 worked. Now I just have four more updates to do! Thanks so much for your help!

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