upgrade from 3.8 to 4.2 FAIL – wp-login trail changed to wp-login.php/

  • leslieclark08

    (@leslieclark08)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    I upgraded from 3.8 to 4.2.2 last night and although the front end of the site looks operational, my user login page used to be /wp-login/ but post-upgrade that page brings up a 404.

    Now I can access the login page by going to /wp-login.php/ and the user appears to login as I can then go to /wp-admin/ while logged into standard user account and see the dashboard.

    However, if I go to a blog or forum post on the site and try to comment, while logged in as a wp standard user, wp does not recognize I am logged in.

    Oddly, /wp-admin/ works correctly and I am able to login to the admin dashboard and when I go to the site it recognizes I am logged in, such as on blog pages when I go to comment.

    However, wp is integrated with several applications that depend on single sign on and my site is not functional right now as sso has been broken because of the url trail conflict.

    I have already checked my .htaccess and it is an exact copy of pre-upgrade. I also ‘reset’ plugins and theme, to no avail.

    Any advice? Thanks all.

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  • Lalit Nagrath

    (@laliz)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    update from 3.8.2 to 4.2 isnt a recommended one, you had to do it incrementially to keep compatibility. now you are mentioning forums non working too, so that has to be buddypress or some other plugin.

    i will advise to read update/plugin compatability on the plugin’s support forum too.

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_-_Extended_Instructions#Upgrading_Across_Multiple_Versions

    https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Versions

    i as a habit/past_experience dont do updates directly on the live site, always create a subdomain and experiment there before publishing changes to live site

    Thread Starter leslieclark08

    (@leslieclark08)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    thanks laliz. I actually had a dev site and ran a full test first, but under my admin account, so I didn’t notice the /wp-login conflict until I pushed it live and thought it was successful – until I received forum access complaints – so that’s how my day started. I’m in the process of rolling back to my old version and database from pre-upgrade on my production site and will be troubleshooting back on my dev site.

    I have already deactivated all of my plugins, manually uploaded the upgrade package (everything from fresh install with the exception of /wp-content where I only overwrote the basics like index.php)

    I also deactivated my theme and turned on 2015. Even with a fresh manual install, all plugins deactivated, theme set to 2015 – the same issue persists.

    Debugging flipped on plus error log only shows some php notices, no warnings.

    /wp-login/ is kicking a 404 but /wp-login.php works
    BUT even if logged in via wp-login.php the bbpress forums nor blog pages will recognize the logged in user. However, the user can navigate to /wp-admin/ and see their dashboard…?

    admins are not affected, they can login correctly, and stay logged in while on site, and do connect properly with integrated applications.

    Any ideas?

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