Login Page had redirect loop

I am having a similar issue. All of my pages are working but the homepage. Everything was fine until the update. When I manually type “/index.php” the homepage comes up fine, but not when I leave it off.

I have tried a number of different things found on other threads, including deactivating plugins, changing permalinks, changing themes, checking .htaccess, and changing my home page reference. I have tried other silly things just guessing and checking, but no luck.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

I am in the same boat as you guys. Ever since the update I cannot access my homepage aside from the “/index.php” like seippel mentioned.

All of my clients sites are doing this if on v4.4 or 4.4.1. This is a major bug ??

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Further to this – I have found that the issue only seems to appear when trying to edit older pages/posts.

If I create a new page, I can update/publish it as normal, with no problems. Could this be a date issue?

If I log out and then return to the page to try and edit – on update I am logged out again, with the same looping “session expired” error.

Once the error occurs – trying to access any part of the site refers you to the login.

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Hey everyone,

I am also experiencing this issue – I am unable to update any page on my website, as i am redirected to a session expiry login, that then loops – no matter where i am in my dashboard after a primary login.

Yesterday, access was fine and the system operated A-ok.

I have tried three browsers – all with cleared history/security/cookies.

My wordpress version was updated automatically to 4.4.1 yesterday at 8:30 pm GMT)

I’m guessing this needs a fix quick.

Assistance appreciated.

I have same issue on 15 of my 18 sites. the 3 that still work are not updated to 4.4.1. all the ones that automatically updated are broke.

I had the same issue: One of my WordPress installations got a redirect loop after auto-update to 4.4.1. Sad: It was the start-page :-(. My tree other WP installations had no problem with this update.

So I asked my webhoster, and he came up with a solution for my problem: I had used upper case letters in the URL-Config in WP:
select * from wordpresswp_options where option_name = ‘siteurl’;

After making them all lower case, the redirect loop was gone.

It seems, that the older versions had no problem with this. My other WP-installation had no problem because there I’ve been wise enough to avoid upper case letters in the URL ??

So I asked my webhoster, and he came up with a solution for my problem: I had used upper case letters in the URL-Config in WP:
select * from wordpresswp_options where option_name = ‘siteurl’;

Where is this found ProCoder ? is that in the database, or in the wp_config file ?

Thanks

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Found it…all are lowercase in my DB, so it can’t be that issue affecting my installation ??

The select runs at the database, so there is the information stored:
mysql> select * from wordpresswp_options where option_name = ‘siteurl’;

I’ve changed the URL via Web-backend:
Settings->WordpressURL

By doing so, I’m sure the there are no side-effects. Possibly you can change it also direct in the database. However, I would not recommend it.

Thanks Procoder. Everything is lowercase already and all matches up. Any further thoughts are welcome ??

Both my sites automatically updated from 4.4.0 to 4.4.1 yesterday – I tried to login this morning and couldn’t due to too many redirects error. My URL have always been lowercase.

Same problem here, multiple websites have a redirect loop for /wp-admin/. Some websites don’t. Opening /wp-admin/index.php does work without trouble.

Siteurl is lowercase and switching to default theme and/or disabling plugins does not solve the problem.

.htaccess-file has only default lines in it.

Problem occurs on different servers and different hostingproviders. The same servers are running websites which don’t have the problem as wel, so it cannot be a problem with the server configuration.

@chessweb, Thanks for the info, loading /wp-admin/index.php will get me into the dashboard after entering credentials, however, any redirects thereafter go into redirect loop error. My .htaccess files are WP default.

Hi,
Infinite hompage redirect +1 here.
I solved by adding /index.php in the Settings > Site URL.
Regards

Hey Langsware,

Tried that solution, but i still get the session expired and logged out.

Hi all,

The issue for me was updates to ModSecurity firewall rules in cPanel. After I disabled the rules #214620 & #214940 the WordPress sites are now working again.

It appears that those rules were updated on 29th December, and the issue has only come to light in the last 48 hours as the 4.4.1 update is installed.

I hope this helps, if you don’t know how to fix the above you should pass it onto your web hosting provider.

Regards,

Andy Readman