Upgrade to 2.7; Login reloads login page

Do some tests and see if the variable ABSPATH is being defined correctly.

echo ABSPATH;

In particular, add that in /wp-admin/admin.php before the call to /wp-admin/includes/admin.php . If ABSPATH is NOT defined before the call to /wp-admin/includes/admin.php, your dashboard will not load.

Here is the code from admin.php:

define(‘WP_ADMIN’, TRUE);

if ( defined(‘ABSPATH’) )
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-load.php’);
else
require_once(‘../wp-load.php’);

if ( get_option(‘db_version’) != $wp_db_version ) {
wp_redirect(admin_url(‘upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=’ . urlencode(stripslashes($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]))));
exit;
}

require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/admin.php’);

I’m not a programmer and don’t understand any of the code. I tried adding “echo ABSPATH;” before the last line of code and my login still failed. Any other ideas?

Niteblade – Digg50 here I tried adding echo ABSPATH I think as you suggested, like this:

In WordPress Administration Panels
*
* @since unknown
*/
define(‘WP_ADMIN’, TRUE);

if ( defined(‘ABSPATH’) )
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-load.php’);
else
require_once(‘../wp-load.php’);

if ( get_option(‘db_version’) != $wp_db_version ) {
wp_redirect(admin_url(‘upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=’ . urlencode(stripslashes($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]))));
exit;
}
echo ABSPATH;
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/admin.php’);

auth_redirect();

But it didn’t do it.
Did i get this in the right spot? Of course another noncoder here ??

I also cleared out my cookies but no avail.

The command echo ABSPATH; returns the value of the variable ABSPATH if it has been specified.

if ( defined('ABSPATH') )
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-load.php');
else
require_once('../wp-load.php');

Look at this code here. What it’s saying is, “If the variable ABSPATH is defined, then load the file wp-load.php using the information in ABSPATH. Else, if ABSPATH is NOT defined, then we can’t rely on the information in the variable and must load wp-load.php — which must be one directly level below our current location.

if ( defined('ABSPATH') )
	require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-load.php');
else
	require_once('../wp-load.php');

if ( get_option('db_version') != $wp_db_version ) {
	wp_redirect(admin_url('upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=' . urlencode(stripslashes($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))));
	exit;
}

require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/admin.php');

In other words, if ABSPATH still has no value AFTER the file wp-load.php has been required, then the dashboard will not load because require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/admin.php'); begins the dashboard loading process.

Niteblade,

I tried what you’re doing, In /wp-admin/admin.php I put;

if ( defined(‘ABSPATH’) )
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-load.php’);
else
require_once(‘../wp-load.php’);

if ( get_option(‘db_version’) != $wp_db_version ) {
wp_redirect(admin_url(‘upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=’ . urlencode(stripslashes($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]))));
exit;
}

before the call to /wp-admin/includes/admin.php

but it didn’t do it.

Is it working for you after doing that?

This isn’t so much a “fix” to get it working, it is to identify a possible reason why it is not working. I’m hypothesizing that the variable ABSPATH is not getting defined.

Take a look at the following code in /wp-admin/admin.php:

if ( defined('ABSPATH') )
	require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-load.php');
else
	require_once('../wp-load.php');

if ( get_option('db_version') != $wp_db_version ) {
	wp_redirect(admin_url('upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=' . urlencode(stripslashes($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))));
	exit;
}

Then add the following for diagnostic reasons:

if ( defined(‘ABSPATH’) )
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-load.php’);
else
require_once(‘../wp-load.php’);

if ( get_option(‘db_version’) != $wp_db_version ) {
wp_redirect(admin_url(‘upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=’ . urlencode(stripslashes($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]))));
exit;
}

if (defined(‘ABSPATH’)) {
echo ‘The ABSPATH variable is defined in /wp-admin/admin.php.
‘;
echo ABSPATH;
}
else {
echo ‘The ABSPATH variable is NOT defined in /wp-admin/admin.php
‘;
}

require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/admin.php’);`

Since the value of ABSPATH is critical to load /wp-admin/includes/admin.php, if the ABSPATH variable has not been defined at this point, then by necessity, /wp-admin/includes/admin.php will fail to load.

Basically, put the following code at the top of the important files that reference the ABSPATH variable to determine whether or not ABSPATH has been defined:

if (defined('ABSPATH')) {
echo 'The ABSPATH variable is defined in /wp-admin/xxxx.php. It is --> ';
echo ABSPATH;
echo '<br />';
}
else {
echo 'The ABSPATH variable is <strong>NOT</strong> defined in /wp-admin/xxxx.php<br />';

}`

In the above code, you’ll notice that I have 4 x’s … xxxx.php. If you’re testing out index.php, then change “xxxx” to “index”. If you’re testing out “dashboard.php”, change “xxxx” to dashboard. In this manner, you’ll see some type of screen output that will let you know which file is failing to get the value of ABSPATH.

Sorry. I wish I had the ability to edit my posts, or at least preview them before I “post” them.

The most important part to take away from my last post is the following code:

if (defined('ABSPATH')) {
echo 'The ABSPATH variable is defined in /wp-admin/xxxx.php. It is --> ';
echo ABSPATH;
echo '<br />';
}

else {
echo 'The ABSPATH variable is <strong>NOT</strong> defined in /wp-admin/xxxx.php<br />';
}

I am having the same trouble as the original poster. This is quite frustrating to not be able to login to the admin panel. Any word from WP support on this problem yet?

I finally got a fix on my problem.

Mine was a new install into a sub-directory and then I couldn’t log-in the same as everybody above.

What i did, I got the new URL pointed at the right sub-directory without any redirects in place.

Then I went into cPanel/file manager to the functions.php file located at here wp-content/themes/default/functions.php

Then Edit this file at the very top of the functions.php file on the next line after the <?php
add these two pieces of code:

update_option(‘siteurl’,’https://your-new-domain.com/&#8217;);
update_option(‘home’,’https://your-new-domain.com/&#8217;);

Then go and log-in to the blog admin a couple times.
like at the new address: /wp-login.php

Then go and remove the two pieces of code listed above from the functions.php file .

This was just for a new wp-install but I’ve done this on a couple that i was having the same trouble as above and that fixed it.

Cheers

@digg50 – Then I’m guessing you could accomplish the same thing by these two additions to wp-config.php:

define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://example.com/wordpress');
define('WP_HOME', 'https://example.com/wordpress');

or if WordPress has its own directory:

define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://example.com/wordpress');
define('WP_HOME', 'https://example.com');

Interesting. That sounds like a simple fix. I’ll try it when I get home.

@digg50: How did you reason through this process to discover your solution?

Oh! Thank you Digg that bit of code seemed to fix the problem. A million thank yous!

MichaelH Ya, you could be right. Niteblade, Actually I came across this fix from a link to the Doc area in another post string that about redirecting the sub-directory your wp blog is on so it shows as its own domain. I tried to retrace my steps back there but I couldn’t find that post or the information from Documents.

I’m glad this helped you retta.

Cheers

mine is still not working login just keeps reloading HELLLLPPPPPP

Hi all,

Thank you for the reply, nice to see a lot of WP Moderators trying to help ***sarcasm***

Digg, thanks for your input buddy, I’m trying to follow what you did but either its too late, or I’m so frustrated with this that I’m not thinking properly, either way I need your help as you and rettta719 seem to be the only folks who have this issue fixed.

You wrote:

What i did, I got the new URL pointed at the right sub-directory without any redirects in place.

Q: What new URL?
Q: What sub-dirctory?
Q: Where did you do this?
Q: Did you have to remove the redirects manually?
Q: You edited the ‘default’ themes function.php file, do edit the function.php file of the theme I’m using?

I thank you advance for your help!

Thanks!