WordPress Root Only Showing Login Form?

  • I’m not sure what’s up, but I’ve installed WordPress tons of times on this same server, and never had a site do this.

    I’m downloading the latest WordPress zip from www.ads-software.com, unzipping it, making a MySQL database, configuring wp-config.php with the database info (credentials, utf8mb4 / utf8mb4_unicode_ci), I do the first-time setup, and out of the box, I can’t see the front-end. I can create a page, set it as the default, etc. and I only see a login box. I’ve tried searching this issue on the internet to no avail. At first I thought I was doing something stupid (I may well still be), but I can’t figure out what it might be.

    I’ve tried messing around with/disabling CloudFlare options, caching, etc, tried checking Chrome’s console, tried loading the root with other browsers/proxies, tried enabling debug mode and printing errors to the screen, I’ve tried other themes, and probably more things I can’t think to mention. I’m getting nothing here that is helping me figure it out.

    Additionally, none of my existing WordPress installations are doing this, even if I log into them first. I made the above-linked example site as a sample of this issue after running into it on another (new) domain.

    Debian 9, PHP 7.0.27, Apache 2.4

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • What did you do to make your login form show on the URL of your front end? Doing that makes the link for the “Back to –site–” is the same address as the login form is.
    Did you set your Site URL and WordPress URL to the wrong thing?
    The address of the login page should be wp-login.php, not your site URL.

    Thread Starter Mopquill

    (@mopquill)

    I did not do anything to make the login form show on the front end. I outlined above what I did; I didn’t do any extra steps. I literally installed it and it’s doing this. As I mentioned, running into this issue on another site, I made a sample site and ran into this right away. I didn’t change the site URL or WordPress URL. wp-login.php also shows the login form. And before you ask, my Index options are not set to use wp-login.php.

    Thread Starter Mopquill

    (@mopquill)

    This is still unresolved, though I will report back if I discover a solution.

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