Help Please – Cannot Login to admin after moving WP to root

Assuming you put all the files of your WordPress site in the root of https://www.epothitaki.gr, try putting this in your wp-config.php file:

update_option('siteurl','https://www.epothitaki.gr');
update_option('home','https://www.epothitaki.gr');

See if that makes your site working. If it does, you can remove the lines again.

Hi Senff,

First of all, thanks for your support.
i tried your php addition but it didn’t solve the loop problem. I can reach the login page from https://www.epothitaki.gr/wp-admin and put the correct user/pass but it keeps sending me to the same login page again and again…

One question:
When moving the files from my subdirectory /wp to my root i also copied the .htaccess file. Does this interfere somehow?

thanks again
D.

Well to sum things up:

– had wordpress installed in /wp
– backed up files+db ok
– changed URI, URL and saved ok
– moved files to root folder ok
– copied .htaccess from /wp and pasted to my root ok

problem starts when accessing https://www.epothitaki.gr/wp-admin/
which redirects me to:
https://epothitaki.gr/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%253A%252F%252Fepothitaki.gr%252Fwp-admin%252F&reauth=1

where i put the correct admin user/pass but it keeps resending me to the page https://epothitaki.gr/wp-login.php

so i understand that there is a loop between wp-login.php with a redirection script that i really don’t know how it came there…

any ideas on how to fix this?

What if you add these lines to your wp-config.php, does that make any difference maybe?

define( 'WP_HOME', 'https://epothitaki.gr' );
define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'https://epothitaki.gr' );

ok senff you are being helpful mate…

so,
i changed these 2 lines in wp-cong=fig.php and it worked
now when i put >> https://www.epothitaki.gr/
it redirects me to >> https://epothitaki.gr (without www)
also,
i can enter admin dashboard with user/pass = ok

however:
in the admin > settings > general i can see under URL, URI the 2 fields (with the root url without www) but i can’t edit them anymore…
do i have to erase the two lines form the wp-config.php now that i got it working?

hallo senff,

as i mentioned before your trick on wp-config.php worked and i managed to get out of this redirection loop.

Now, i have access to my admin dashboard, but i cannot change the URI, URL in general settings (probably due to the php lines i put).

Moreover, some of the plugins that worked before are now faulty especially one slider plugin and wpml multilingual plugin.
I tried several times to re-install these without success, and i feel a little frustrated…

I was thinking about going back to my draft website (/wp) to see if things are working like before and then re-try to move to root..
if i decide to do this i believe i will have to delete the two php lines from wp-config.php
what do you suggest?

thanks again
Dimitris

Indeed, using these lines will disable the option to change them:

define( 'WP_HOME', 'https://epothitaki.gr' );
define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'https://epothitaki.gr' );

That’s why these lines should be better:

update_option('siteurl','https://epothitaki.gr');
update_option('home','https://epothitaki.gr');

This should have the same effect (except that with update_option, you can remove these lines again once you get things working).

Can you try this again and replace the define lines with the update_option lines?

Ok senff

indeed update_option was the trick to use
and then erase it because it interfered with plugin functionality
still i don’t get how i got into this loop…
but anyway problem solved
website back in functionality

thanks for your time
Dimitris
Athens