WordPress Login Broken (404)

  • Resolved josephare

    (@josephare)


    11 years ago

    Hello,

    My WP site was staged in a directory, and I moved it (using migration tools) to another directory (diff domain also), and it basically broke (even though I followed the steps I found here to move the site). I then found a tool to change DB entries (domain) globally and that fixed the basic site, but login is still non-functional. I then made changes to wp-config & htaccess, but now, rather than saying ‘site/dir/not-found’ it just says ‘not-found’.

    Can anyone shed some light on this problem for me, I would be most appreciative ??

    Site: https://www.wiselearningcenters.com

    Thank you!
    – Joe

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  • Have you verified that siteurl and home fields in the wp_options table of your database are the same?

    Thread Starter josephare

    (@josephare)

    Yes I just checked again a little while ago… I had used a DB tool to do a global search & replace and it changed all the entries if the old domain to new.

    Thanks

    Have you tried disabling all plugins, and switching to the default Twenty Fourteen theme? You can disable plugins via FTP by renaming the /wp-content/plugins directory, and set the theme to default by removing all theme directories other than twentyfourteen from the /wp-content/themes directory.

    Thread Starter josephare

    (@josephare)

    I can try that, but he theme is totally customized so I hope it doesn’t make a total mess of it.

    Thread Starter josephare

    (@josephare)

    When I disable the plugins folder the site is totally inaccessible, so, what’s up with that? As I said, it is a totally custom theme, so I’ll try disabling that I suppose…

    Thread Starter josephare

    (@josephare)

    when I disable the custom theme, the other theme does not initiate, it’s just a blank white screen…

    Thread Starter josephare

    (@josephare)

    I have disabled each plugin individually, and tested after each change, and as expected some things change, but the admin login never loads, it only goes to a 404 error page every time.

    I’m really at a loss here, I have followed every possible procedure I could find to make this work, and nothing has fixed the issue, short of totally rebuilding the site from scratch over a fresh install… this is not ideal.

    Thread Starter josephare

    (@josephare)

    Update: totally removed htaccess file and the login window became available. Now just to determine the offending line in the file.

    thanks for your help!

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