Cannot login to admin panel — getting redirect from wp-admin/index.php

When you say no opportunity to login, when you are redirected to that URL, are you not seeing the login screen?

If you then login, does it immediately return you back to the login screen?

You obviously changed mysite.com for privacy reasons, but do both URLs match, the login and redirect_to url?

Finally do you have access to any form of error logs and do they have anything in them?

sorry for barrage of opening questions.

Thanks for the reply. Nothing private that I can’t share!

Here is my login page:
https://www.friendsofnepal.com/wp-admin/index.php

and ten redirect is to here:

https://www.friendsofnepal.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.friendsofnepal.com%2Fwp-admin%2Findex.php&reauth=1

So just to check are you getting the following error

You are not authorized to view this page

The Web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the Web site, and the IP address of your browsing computer is on this list.
Please try the following:

Contact the Web site administrator if you believe you should be able to view this directory or page.
HTTP Error 403.6 – Forbidden: IP address of the client has been rejected.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Which is the error I got when visiting that page, the error is because my IP (and if you are getting it yours as well) is not on a list of approved IPs.

This is an extra security precaution who ever set up WordPress for you has done, IPs are not always static, so if you are logging in from a new location, you will probably need to give your administrator your new IP. Also a lot of smaller business and home ISP use dynamic IPs so reissue IPs periodically, so even if you are in the same location your IP may change.

So check your IP simply Google “what’s my IP” and let your sysadmin or whoever put the restriction in place your new IP.

ohhh! Thanks. Yes, I do have dynamic IP but its basically static — it changes every 6 months or so when the power goes out!

I manage my server but I don’t remember putting a restriction on login via IP. How do I ‘undo’ this permission?

Thanks for your help, Tim!!

This is something you done in IIS rather then WordPress which also means I really don’t know how you did it as I rarely touch IIS however a quick Google I suspect you probably did https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730889.aspx

Which hopefully point you in the right direction!

hmmm… I suppose that is possible, and I do have certain IPs that have special permissions, but only as it pertains to RDC. All other sties/ blogs on my server do not exhibit this problem. Are you sure that error has to do with IP permissions?

The Web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the Web site, and the IP address of your browsing computer is on this list.

Seems pretty specific as error messages go ??

Yes, right on. I get dunce of the year for not reading the message!! Not sure what happened but its working again now so tx!!