Upgrade to 2.6 – Admin Login Problem

This is a screencap of what I’m getting. I just want to make sure this is the same problem others are experiencing or if I’m on the wrong track:

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Can someone please point me in the right direction?

I have just checked the instructions given at https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

Didn’t work for me:

When I follow the instructions.
I then go to https://www.RossGoodman.com/wp-login.php
I can log in and it takes me to the admin pages – great !
I then click on View Site, I can see my site and I am logged in – great !
I then click on “site admin” (it claims I am logged in) but it sends me to the login screen.

Arggghhhh !!!!

I can still click on “Write a Post” and get access to the admin pages so that’s what I am still using.

Ross

I was ready to pull my hair out after a live upgrade, and after trying 20 different solutions, finally realized that Zonealarm was blocking the cookies. D’oH! Shutdown Zonealarm and logged right in.

Just in case anyone else is running a security suite/firewall on their PC.

I can’t login because when I put the user and pass and click enter…the page stay blank…Anyone can help me?

Thanks

Denis lafont’s solution above

– Connect to your database ( via PhpMyAdmin for example)
– Find the wp_options->active_plugins row
– Edit it, and put:
a:0:{}

in that row.

worked for me

Fixes after days of frustration!!! CCpyle’s fix above worked for me. DISABLE FIREWALL. I use CA Etrust, and I can now login if I close the Etrust firewall (leave the windows firewall in place). Don’t know why, and I’m not sure of teh security risks, but at least I can access my admin panel. I hadn’t seen that solution on the multiple other posts regarding login issues. Glad I found this one!

drluckyspin’s solution helped me with my problem with safari.
go to https://www.domain.com/wp-login.php?action=logout
Then log in again. Works prefect with WP 2.6.2

I had a really wierd one! The failure for me only happened several weeks after my upgrade, between one longin and the next. I tried all the usual stuff, then deleted ALL the plugin files using my ftp program and things were fine.

I’ve no idea why, because putting the plugins back in place hasn’t screwed anything up.

Odd!

Simon

I ran into the same problem when upgrading from version 2.0.2 and 2.3.1 to 2.6. I spent a few days working on this so I thought i’d share my fixes.

I had two seperate issues.

1. I was unable to login. Even resetting the password and logging in with the new password kept reverting to the login page. It didn’t display any error messages.

FIX: The fix that I used was to rename the wp-content/plugins folder to something like wp-content/plugins.old. Then login and rename the folder back to the original name.

Even though I followed the instructions to disable all the plugins this didn’t help. Renaming the folder was the only way that I could fix this.

2. The second problem was that I kept getting a blank homepage. I could get into the admin panel but the homepage showed nothing.

FIX: Login to the wordpress admin panel. Click on design and check to see what Theme wordpress is using. In my instance it was totally blank, even though the wp-content/themes had a theme installed. All I did was uploaded and activated another theme. This then fixed the problem. I was also able to revert to my previous theme.

Hope this helped someone.

I had the same problem after upgrading from 2.6 to 2.6.2.

Denis lafont’s solution worked also for me

– Connect to your database ( via PhpMyAdmin for example)
– Find the wp_options->active_plugins row
– Edit it, and put:
a:0:{}
in that row.

Panagiotis

I found the easiest way to deal with this is just to rename the plugins folder in wp-content (I rename mine to plugins_). It kills the plugins, which enables you to log in and upgrade. Then rename it back again to plugins. No need to mess around in PHPMyAdmin.

apolaine’s trick worked for me.

just to rename the plugins folder in wp-content (I rename mine to plugins_). It kills the plugins, which enables you to log in and upgrade. Then rename it back again to plugins.

All of my plugins were deactivated. I don’t get it.

I’m Surprised this problem is not addressed by WP. In 3 1/2 years I’ve never encountered anything like this. There should be a note about the problem in the install instructions.

It took 24 hours to research and solve.

Plugins not being deactivated was the problem for me.

I went into the database via phpMyAdmin and reset the plugin activation via this post from above:

– Connect to your database ( via PhpMyAdmin for example)
– Find the wp_options->active_plugins row
– Edit it, and put:
a:0:{}

This worked for me and i was able to reactivate plugins after this.

I tried this all…none of it worked until I used FTP to delete all the CACHE files in my /WP-CONTENT/ directory.

As soon as I deleted the cache, I was presented the admin login screen which had been blank, and was able to login, and my site is also back up.

It may have been corruption from me not deactivating the plug-ins prior to my last upgrade….lesson learned!

NOW, to re-install the plugs which I’d also deleted.

I also could use https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/ to login instead of https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin. Mine is fresh installation. Renaming plugins folder doesn’t help. This only happen across multiple PCs using Firefox browser. IE & Chrome is fine. Tried clearing cookies but don’t think is cause by that either cause only happen on Firefox in multiple PCs. Any idea why?