WP hangs when I try to login as admin, any ideas?

  • We have a fairly old internal blog, which I suspect has not been updated for 18 months or so. And I’d like to activate it again.

    It works from a user point of view, but when I try and log in as admin, it just hangs indefinitely! I know the password is correct, if I get it wrong it tells me.

    Has anyone got any ideas on how I can try to bring this back to life?

    I don’t know what version it is running.

    Thanks,
    Nick

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    To find the version, try example.com/readme.html or look at the source and search for tags like “?ver=”.

    Anyhow, check your server logs. If there’s an error, it will be logged in access_log and/or error_log. Once you know what’s erroring, we can proceed.

    wp-includes/version.php also contains the current WP version as well as other info.

    Thread Starter nick.peckham

    (@nickpeckham)

    OK, updates from the log files.

    There are no errors in the error log.
    The access log has hundreds of the same log item:

    [30/Jun/2016:15:29:36 +0100] “GET /wp-admin/ HTTP/1.1” 302 –
    This repeats every second when I try to login to the wordpress admin.

    What next please?

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