Can't log in to WordPress after uploading site to remote server

  • I’m currently rebuilding a website for a friend who lost most of it when the server space they were using ceased to exist. I had a backup of the partially complete theme and have installed WordPress on the new server and uploaded the theme files.

    I’ve updated everything in PHPMyAdmin (wp_usermeta and wp_users) and even double checked user names and passwords but I still can’t log into wp-admin.

    I created a new user name and password through PHPMyAdmin as I couldn’t get in using the old one but that doesn’t work either. I can tell that WordPress recognises the user name, as it says the password is incorrect for the username (if the wrong username is entered there would be a message saying user not recognised). I can see I’m entering the correct details as they are in PHPMyAdmin so I don’t understand why I can’t log in.

    Can anyone shed any light? The front end of the site is working fine (although I’ve put a temp holding page up), the only issue is with the password. I may have missed something obvious but I can’t seem to get to the bottom of it.

    Thanks for any help.

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  • When manually editing/adding a user in the database using phpMyAdmin, you have to select MD5 from the drop down for varchar(64) for user_pass.

    In other words, enter the desired password in the Value box, then select MD5 from the drop down, then click Go

    Thread Starter marktea1

    (@marktea1)

    Thanks Lyle, that’s fixed the problem!

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