WordPress login page cannot be found

  • clark3540

    (@clark3540)


    11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi there, everything was working fine with my website and wordpress until I noticed I needed to update my wordpress. Honestly, I cannot even remember what version I amrunning, and now that I cannot log in, I am not sure how I can tell.

    Regardless, I clicked update to wordpress 4.0, but noticed it said do not update until you have backed up your site. I then immediately canceled the wordpress update, since I had not backed up my site recently. Ever since then I have not been able to log into my wordpress via the http://www.siteurl.com/wordpress/wp-login.php

    I logged onto my website host (Bizland) and used the file manager to attempt to do many of the required steps from the “login trouble” FAQ from wordpress.

    I tried the following steps and did not have any luck
    -Enable Cookies
    -Deactivate Theme
    -New Login File
    -Edit Users Table
    -Site URL Redirecting

    When I look at the files in my file manager, like 1/3 of the files are updated (am I assuming for the new wordpress 4.0) and the others are not updated. Surely, this is causing the problem? Do I need to go in and manually install the rest of the new wordpress 4.0 files and delete the old ones?

    My website, indianarugco.com, is functioning fine, but it is just that I cannot log in through the wordpress login page.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

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  • Matt

    (@mzak)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Performing the upgrade manually (from scratch) is probably what I would try next.

    1. Delete wp-admin & wp-includes directories
    2. Delete all files in the root EXCEPT wp-config.php
    3. Upload 4.0 wp-admin & wp-includes directories, and all files except wp-config.php
    4. Try to log in and complete the update
    Thread Starter clark3540

    (@clark3540)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Ok I will try that. Do I need to modify any of the files so that everything still works for my site or is all of that info within the wp-config.php? Thanks

    Matt

    (@mzak)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    You shouldn’t have to change any of the files (in fact, it’s strongly advised that you don’t ever modify any core WordPress files)

    Thread Starter clark3540

    (@clark3540)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Ok great. I will try this then.

    Thread Starter clark3540

    (@clark3540)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Well, I tried that (which took an extremely long time to manually bring those new files over) and still not working for me. I am positive I exchanged everything but the wp-config.php. I did notice a wp-config-sample.php that I copied, was I suppose to leave that one off?

    Any other suggestions? Thanks Matt Zak for help so far.

    lopwal

    (@lopwal)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Hello.
    I have tried to browse over this directory on yout site:
    http://www.siteurl.com/wordpress/

    and simply not show. Are you sure you have installed WP?

    Matt

    (@mzak)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Sorry to hear that it’s not working still. wp-config-sample.php is ignored by WP so it doesn’t really matter if you copied it or not.

    In looking at your site, it appears that maybe the WordPress URL is incorrect.

    Are the WordPress files located in a directory called ‘wordpress’?

    i.e. is the structure as follows:

    public_html/wordpress/*WORDPRESS FILES HERE*

    or

    public_html/*WORDPRESS FILES HERE*

    Thread Starter clark3540

    (@clark3540)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Yeah I believe the file path is just

    root folder > wordpress >

    Then of course it keeps going root folder > wordpress > wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes, then all the additional files which are not in another folder like index.php, wp-config.php, etc.

    Thread Starter clark3540

    (@clark3540)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Update:

    I had to rename the folder plugins to plugins.deactivate and then I was able to log back in.

    Thanks for the help Matt Zak, you guided me in the right direction. haha man what a pain, so glad it is fixed!

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