Cannot activate plugin–Redirects to website URL

Hi,

Sorry for the issues. I can troubleshoot them with you.

You can put a plugin in the “Must Use” Plugins directory and that automatically activates it.

However, I would recommend against it.

Are you able to try from a different computer?

What about any caching or security measures you have on the site or in the htaccess file? Something there could be redirecting the link.

Let us know.

Thanks

Hi, I just deleted my W3 Total Cache plugin and iSecurity plugin. Cleared my browser cache and still get that redirect :/

I currently have:
Akismet
Contact Form 7
TinyMCE Advanced
WP Google Fonts

I went ahead and deactivated all plugins and still getting the redirect.

I also changed my theme to the default twenty fifteen theme and still getting the redirect.

Hi,

Thanks for the info.

What about in your htaccess file?

Something is redirecting that link on your server as even when I click on it, it redirects me to the home page when it should redirect me to a permission error page. So something on your server is intercepting that.

This is what I have, the only difference is that I have /womensfund added to the link because WP is installed under that subdirectory:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /womensfund/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /womensfund/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

THIS IS WP’s default:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Hello,

Thanks for checking on that. I did some searching and found other plugins having a similar issue and it usually was a conflict with another plugin or a caching plugin.

I would run through our testing for conflicts guide and see if you can get the plugin activated with no other plugins active and a different theme. Then you maybe to reactive and change back your theme.

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/testing-for-conflicts/