Title: Login Loop
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Login Loop

 *  [savvy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/savvy/)
 * (@savvy)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-loop/)
 * I was “successful” at installing WordPress, but the Step 3 page of the installation
   was blank (except for “Step 3”)…
    The database was created and the blog is visible.
   I am able to create/edit users using phpMyAdmin, but my login just loops… I’m
   not sure what is going on – any ideas?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-loop/#post-65933)
 * Have you tried closing the browser, and clearing the cookies ?
    What OS / browser
   are you using ?
 *  Thread Starter [savvy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/savvy/)
 * (@savvy)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-loop/#post-65987)
 * I’ve tried using different browsers, closing them, clearing cache, uninstall/
   reinstall WP… all end up with the same result.
    I get a Step 3 and that page’s
   body is blank. According to the documentation, the only screen left in the install
   process is a page that give you a random-generated password for admin. I then
   used phpMyAdmin to change the password in the wp_users table. I then went to /
   wordpress/ to confirm it was even loaded. When I click “login”, it doesn’t do
   anything. I then clicked “register” and created a normal user. On the last page
   of the registration process, I’m presented w/ a button to login… again nothing
   happpens. I confirmed that my new normal user was added to the wp_users table.
   There must be something wrong with /wordpress/wp-login.php Good thing I’m commited
   to getting WordPress running, or this would be enough to drive me to MoveableType
   or Blogger. I’m familar w/ PHP, but not the WP system so I have no idea where
   the problem could be. Please tell me this is a common problem.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-loop/#post-65990)
 * Can you get into irc ?
    Freenode #wordpress
 *  Thread Starter [savvy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/savvy/)
 * (@savvy)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-loop/#post-65993)
 * Sorry, never used IRC before… Never found a need and nobody explained the benefits.
   
   I started to look at the wp-login.php code and may have found my issue… There
   is a for loop to set variable names listed in the $wpvarstorest. I outputed the
   value of each variable and all are blank. The next code section performs a switch(
   $action), which is not set so nothing happens.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-loop/#post-65996)
 * Using #wordpress on irc means you can chat to people who know a lot about php
   and the wordpress code.
    People have found it to be a quicker route to fixing
   problems.
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-loop/#post-65997)
 * from what i’ve seen and experienced, it seems like this “login loop” is a recurring
   issue that MANY people are experiencing, including myself.
    so other than completely
   blowing away the installation and doing a clean install, is there any way to 
   fix this besides clearing cookies & turning off firewalls/zonealarm? i’ve tried
   playing around with the wp-users table and changing the ip address/web address/
   etc, but that seems to have no effect whatsoever. anybody have more ideas on 
   this?
 *  Thread Starter [savvy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/savvy/)
 * (@savvy)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-loop/#post-65998)
 * Sounds to me like WordPress is not ready (aka useless) if there are login issues.
   How can this be getting so much hype when there seems to be a major usability
   issue overlooked? How are people even able to hype it up if you can’t log in 
   to use it?
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-loop/#post-66019)
 * ugh, i finally got it working:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/3/7091](http://wordpress.org/support/3/7091)
   followed every single step and it worked like a charm. it may have been an id10t
   error on my part because i noticed the new hash i generated was totally different
   from the hash in wp_users. not sure if hash changes everytime, if the hash in
   wp_users was ‘corrupted’ somehow, or if i just changed my password and didn’t
   remember it. oh well, seems to work fine now….. crossing fingers for the long
   term

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-loop/#post-66019)
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