holtenj

After digging around, I found this page which showed how to not only reset your password, but see what your user names are.

That found the user name “administrator”.

So I changed the password, and attempted to login. I no longer have the error about an invalid login, BUT it simply returns me to the login page over and over.

I’m marking this issue as resolved, as my initially stated problem is resolved. I will open a new discussion for the new issue.

Update: I found these in another thread:

wp-config.php hack.
wp-login.php hack.
functions.php hack.

The second one seemed to work for me, but I can’t login with the mysql login, and I never had a step that setup the admin login and password for WordPress. I can’t login at all.

Is there a way I can set a new admin login or password?
Thanks!
-Jim

Update: I found this link from another post: https://s3.amazonaws.com/oblaksoft/images/wordpress-cookie-debug.png

It shows how to check the cookie domain. Well, I checked, and my domain is correct, but my path is wrong.

How do I set the path?

Thanks much, guys! ??
-Jim

Found the problem. Apparently when I set my WP_HOME to the dynamic site name found in the site setup, it didn’t redirect properly. Once I set it to the static site name, it worked fine.

I thought of that as well, so I created a new database with a new user with full privileges, and the results were exactly identical, unfortunately.

There is no wp-config.php there even after running the loop several times.

I tried creating my own wp-config.php, but that seems to create a whole new problem. It then says that WordPress is already installed and wants me to login. “You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first” and the only option available is ‘Log in’.

Trouble is . . . I haven’t gotten to the stage where a login is created.

Clicking ‘Log in’ takes me to a login page (not the WordPress normal login page, but some odd page listing the name of the old non-wordpress site, though the URL shows the correct URL for my WordPress install I just uploaded). It doesn’t matter what I enter at this stage, as it goes from “<www.sitename.com>/WordPress/wp-login.php” to “<sitename.com>/wordpress/wp-login.php” (notice the lowercased wordpress and lack of a www. ) and claims it can’t find the page.

Odd. I hope that helps diagnose the issue a bit more.

Thanks much! ??
-Jim