WordPress Installation Disaster

When I attempt to login, it goes back to the login screen and asks for the password again. This seems to be a common problem, with few solutions to. That is bad.

That sounds like a faulty install. Have you tried re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress?

Are you hosting WP locally or on a remote server?

I’m installing WordPress locally on my own server. So I have all rights and permissions to everything. I have re-copied the WordPress files into the root directory for my web server. I get the same errors.

Either it fails to login, returning to the original login screen or I get an HTTP 404 Not Found.

Interestingly, if recognizes the wrong password. I also checked the MySQL database and everything seems correct.

I have wiped out the tables on my MySQL database and reloaded the files from the downloaded zip a couple of times into my web server’s root directory, per the troubleshooting steps. Yet, back to HTTP 404 Not Found or same wp-login.php page.

I’m loading the files from the downloaded zip 2.9.1. I will try to re-download them from the WordPress site again, though I’m not sure why the downloaded files from WordPress would be corrupt, but at this point I will try anything.

Another interesting thing about the reoccurring login problem, is that if you select the box for “remember me”, that does not work either. The login page will reload anyway.

https://#.#.#.#/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2F#.#.#.#%2Fwp-admin%2Findex

Does anybody understand what the above means or why it happens?

#.#.#.# = IP address or my domain (that was modified by me to protect IP/domain)

I noticed the above URL when I get redirected to the same login page.

I type in the user name and password at https://mydomain.com/wp-login.php .

Then instead of a login, I get the same login page again, but user name and password. This then shows up in the address box- https://#.#.#.#/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2F#.#.#.#%2Fwp-admin%2Findex

I think there’s a server redirection\set up problem going on here. The redirect url shouldn’t have index tacked on the end of it.

I feel your pain…. I logged in…logged out….logged back in….logout…went to login back in and wrong password…now back to get a fresh download…for the seventh time!!!!something is wrong here…I am well into my second day of trying to get this thing installed.

I’m with you ZiiZii. I’m not a complete computer idiot and have done my best to read and follow instructions, then read through the troubleshooting steps. This includes “fresh” downloads.

I tried to install Joomla, EVERYTHING WORKED PERFECTLY. Basically I’m moving forward with Joomla, but I’m still curious as to what is the problem with WordPress. Since I have my own server, I can afford to experiment a bit.

I’m very perplexed at this login problem. There seems to be some unknown combination that creates the login problem and nobody has been able to explain it. I wonder if it is the type of unzip software that is being used? The OS does not seem to matter, as I read both Linux and Windows users having the same problem.

ZiiZii what did you use to unzip WordPress? I used peazip, open source file manager and extract tool. That might not be it, but it seems people at WordPress continue to have the login problem, but people can’t figure out why. There just has to be a reason.

Sorry but it looks like a server issue to me. See above. The login url is malformed.

I think there’s a server redirection\set up problem going on here. The redirect url shouldn’t have index tacked on the end of it.

Esmi, I agree and I’m studying on why that could be happening. I don’t understand why inputting my user name and password on the WordPress login would redirect me in this way.

Interestingly, if I put NO user name and password and try to login, the SAME thing happens. So NO user name and password, acts the same as if putting in a CORRECT user name and password, which is redirect back to the login page. However it will give an error to the wrong user name and password.

Sorry but it looks like a server issue to me. See above. The login url is malformed.

I will setup a different web server and see what happens.

Also, the malformed url can be the result of PHP code used by WordPress or the combination of web server and PHP code used. I’m leaning in the direction of WordPress PHP code, since my other PHP programs and Joomla don’t have this problem, but multiple WordPress users do.

I don’t have a .htaccess file, maybe the issue is with WordPress creating or writing to this file. This could be a permission issue and make sense why some people see the problem and other don’t. Will try this out too…

That shouldn’t be an issue unless you want to use custom permalinks. Out of the box, WP doesn’t rely on .htaccess.