After moving from local to a server, login hangs

Just changing the siturl and home values in wp_options is not enough in my experience.

This article Changing the Site Url saved my life a few years ago during an emergency server move and url change.

I now find the easiest way to get this going(as noted in the article) is to add the following to wp-config.php

define('WP_HOME','https://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://example.com');

Read the whole article as your posts may need to be updated as well.

See Moving WordPress ? WordPress Codex and WordPress Serialized PHP Search Replace Tool

I found out that it’s related with iis.. I can’t seem to log in to anything else with php.

I can’t set up default document for index.php, very strange.

If you cannot log in to anything else with php, can you at least run a php file? Can you create an info.php file and run it:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Wht version of php, and are you running FastCGI. IIS7 has an update for FastCGI for Server 2008: FastCGI Update

If you cannot set the default document how have you tried to do this? Can you add a web.config to the root of the site specifying the default document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <defaultDocument>
            <files>
                <clear />
                <add value="index.php" />
           </files>
        </defaultDocument>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

You may have a web.config already, so this would need to be merged with an existing one. Let me know if one already exists.

Let us know what you find out.

It appears there’s an error with the php configuration with iis.. I am not sure what.. It’s giving me this error:

Error Code: 0x800700b7
Config Error: “There is a duplicate ‘system.web.extensions/scripting/scriptResourceHandler’ section defined”
Config file: \\?
/D:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite\WebSite\web.config

That error means that there is a conflict (usually a duplicate entry) between web.config files.

A)
Follow the path look in d:\inetpub\wwwroot is there a web.config?
Then look at d:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite is there another web.config?
Lastly look at d:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite\website is there yet another web.config?

If the web.config files conflict with one another without clearing the parent values the above error can occur.

B)

Is the site running under its own application pool? It should be (more secure this way) and you can control the .net version. If the site is only WordPress, set the .NET Framework Version to “No managed Code” in the Application pool advanced Settings. In addition, for php sites, make sure enable 32-bit Applications are set to True.

Check out these and let me know what you find.

I have exactly the same problem. I moved my site from live to local. I can access my website but I don’t succeed to login.
I can type my login and password but then I get a blank page (https://localhost:8888/wp-login.php).