wp-admin suddenly not working

We’re all having this issue ?? but it’s not an area that WP seems to know much about.

@stigmartyr

We’re all having this issue ?? but it’s not an area that WP seems to know much about.

Is this a “login” page that you got bounced out of the Admin onto? Are you able to get into the site if you close out your browser or open another tab?

Are you getting any errors in Chrome / Firebug?

Are you sure that all of your JQuery libraries, etc. are not being loaded in the Admin section (i.e use some kind of !is_admin statement)?

Basically it was working fine one day and the next /wp-admin and wp-login.php and redirecting me to a 404 page.

I’ve tried over writing the files with the latest ones and all the suggestions you see above in my previous posts. I know I can just reinstall but that doesn’t help me solve the issue therefore I’ve left it like this to better understand what is going on — hopefully resolve it.

Yup.. so working on this again. I just manually updated to WP 3.2.1 and this site is still having the issue. When I go to /wp-admin/ I am directed to the login screen. However after I enter my creds, I am redirected to a 404 page who’s URL looks like:

https://mysite.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fmysite.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

I’ve tried several different combinations of .htaccess files and wp-config.php as I found in searching google/www.remarpro.com

I’ve tried making sure that the URL is written correctly in the wp_options table in the db, I’ve tried praying to a higher power. I’ve tried smoking lots of pot to forget about it, I’ve tried communicating with the dead, and even tried singing to my computer..

My .htaccess

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

https://bradscustomauto.com/wp-login.php – this is working so you can get to the site.

https://mysite.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fmysite.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1 is correct behavior but the 404 page is not.

[Edit] https://bradscustomauto.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fmysite.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1 is working correctly.

Are you still talking about brads custom auto?

https://bradscustomauto.com/wp-login.php – this is working so you can get to the site.

Yeah I’m pretty sure that isn’t correct behavior as explained in the posts above. I cannot get to the dashboard.

Yes, I see. I registered and was sent a password but 404’d.

are you getitng a literal “404”? Can you enable PHP debugging on your host for the time being so you can see if you have a conflict in one of the plugin files or themes of your site?

Also, have you tried using the login — entering your credentials — and then navigating DIRECTLY to https://bradscustomauto.com/wp-admin/ within the same browser session?

Thanks for your help fellers – yes indeed it does do this even with the entire plugin folder disabled (renamed to plugins.off)

Today I updated to WP 3.2.1 and updated the custom theme to the latest and greatest version…

Reinstalling the entire site may resolve it but we’ll all be back at the drawing board if this ever happens again so I’m holding out for a fix.

@ tasty.donuts – yes after it 404’s I’ve tried that, even tried manually typing out URLs like /wp-admin/users.php just to get to a page anywhere on the dashboard, tried some .htacess tricks in the wp-admin folder and other statements to ‘allow all’. I’ve tried CHMOD (just cause) some other different tricks recommended in any slightly relevant article, just trying to force my way in.

I did try to move my theme folder away (deleted it) and the site came up blank (this was after the 3.2.1 upgrade) not sure why it didn’t go to 2011 theme. It actually gives me a 500 error after I login (when I move away the present theme). I might have to set something in the db telling it to look to the default? But I thought WP would default to Twenty Eleven.

Have you checked the site’s URL in the database?

Also, have you tried navigating directly to your admin dashboard with the www. in front of your site’s name and without?

Unsolved Mysteries – *UPDATE*

“We still have no f***ing clue what’s wrong” ??

BUT! Just scrolling through the thread looking at kmessinger post (yes about Brads site) I clicked the reauth=1 link again and it directed me to the wp-login.php page again where I entered my creds again but this time I went to the dashboard..

So to make this perfectly clear, here are my steps:

I typed in: https://bradscustomauto.com/wp-admin/ and was directed to a 404 page telling me these aren’t the droids I’m looking for.

I then cut and pasted the below link into the same browser window/session and it goes to the wp-login.php page (again) prompting me to login (again) and then it sends me to the dashboard.

https://bradscustomauto.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fmysite.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

I’m confused as to why it’s behaving this way.

@tasty – yes I did try to add www. and that didn’t work. Site’s URL in the DB matches what it should be. I am not using the dubdubdub.

I also set that in wp-config.php but it made no different so I removed it.

Im using /%category%/%postname%/ permalink structure..

Getting into the dashboard now is nice, but it’s the way I have to get in there that’s confusing.

Have you tried turning PHP error reporting on?

Hi tasty – does that mean to set WP_DEBUG to ‘true’ ?

If I need to edit the php.ini file I’ll need to contact the host. Although I recall there was a way to force it in wp-config.php assuming apache is set to allow over rides.