Fresh Install, subfolder multisite, infinite redirect loop sub-blog login

Hey creativepublishing thanks it worked your solution, thank you…

OK. I’ve read through this thread multiple times. Tried and retried the suggested solutions. I get nothing but redirect authorization loop. So, here are my details.

WordPress is installed at: ~/htmlRoot/wordpress/
Current blog is installed at: ~/htmlRoot/blog/

In non-multisite mode, this setup works fine. However, when I follow the instructions (here) and then try to log in, I get this in the browser address bar:

https://smittie.com/wordpress/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fsmittie.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

My .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Obviously am I missing something. Can I buy a clue?

— Smittie

Just add.

define('ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH', '/');
define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');
define('COOKIEPATH', '');
define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '');

to wp-config.php file.

Perfect!! Thank you-! I had a bunch of other symptoms as well, and have been chasing down each one. This appears to have fixed them all.

I used this boilerplate .htaccess code:

I am using the same .htaccess code and was able to get it working briefly yesterday, however I had to fix a redirect issue in apache and when I did I can no longer get the subsites to work. I am able to create new subsites and the dashboard work correctly, however when you click on the login or register links a page can not be found message is issued.

Here is the subsite https://teach.wpcc.edu/trying/

Here is what I get when trying to logout/login from the subsite https://teach.wpcc.edu/trying/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=f38c52190c

Any ideas on how to fix this?

@creativepublishing
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

@softmixt – Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I will say that the following combination is really complicated:
WordPress Multisite with subdomains using WAMP locally

Custom edits for:

• wp-config in WordPress
• hosts file on Windows 7
• httpd.conf in the WAMP Apache config
• httpd-vhosts.conf in the WAMP Apache config
• .htacess in the virtual host setup

After all that… turns out your cookie code was the final piece I needed to get everything working the way I needed it to.

Cheers!

Recently I started to have redirect issues on our subfolder hosted site.

https://www.landcruisingadventure.com

So I used this boilerplate on the .htacces file in the subfolder:

# BEGIN WordPress
# END WordPress

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] # uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L] # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

From there everything on went smooth. Until I needed to sign in again, and I can’t acces my login page.

https://www.landcruisingadventure.com/wp-login.php

It sends my to:

https://www.landcruisingadventure.com/wplca/wp-login.php

but instead of showing the login page, it shows a 404 content?

When I try to go to:

https://www.landcruisingadventure.com/wp-admin

it sends me to:

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

How do I get to my login page?

Adventurous greetings,
Coen

@dains which lines did you carefully remove? I’ve tried this fix a few times and I still can’t get the dashboards for my subfolder sites to load.

Hello I have a redirection loop problem with the page I am trying to make: https://www.trade-gate.net. Unfortuantely I don’t know much about coding. The problem started when I renamed some of the pages that are under my website. I renamed some pages several times I am afraid – not knowing that this might be a problem. Now I understand that all those records were kept somewhere in the memory of wordpress and authomatically wordpress keeps directing to each other.

I don’t know how I will solve this. If I touch the htaccess file, I am afraid that everything will clash. I could not even understand whether the above fix that @creativepublishing proposed would fit me or not.

I think there should be a simple solution to this because it can be encountered so easily while renaming pages.

For example, one of the pages that have this problem is the following: https://www.trade-gate.net/eurostrong-televizyon-koltuklari/

If you can advise a solution for me, I would greatly appreciate.

Thank you.

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