Can't log in after moving site

  • Resolved iwriteblogs

    (@iwriteblogs)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    I have a vanilla WP installation with Better WP Security. I enabled “Hide WordPress Backend” to change the URLs for my login and admin pages. Everything works fine so far…

    I copied all files (including .htaccess which I know is modified by this feature) and the database to a different server. Readers can see all the posts, and I can access the login page using my custom URL, but after typing in my password I get “Page Not Found” instead of being redirected to wp-admin.

    Am I skipping over a required step? It’s common to have a testing environment and a production environment, so I’m sure others have done this sort of thing before. I hope someone can see what mistake I’ve made. Thanks for your time.

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  • Thread Starter iwriteblogs

    (@iwriteblogs)

    I’d still really like help with this, but for now I’m working around the issue by removing everything in my .htaccess from “# BEGIN Better WP Security” to “# END Better WP Security.” So as far as I can tell, this plugin is the cause of my problem. I’ll just need to remember to modify .htaccess every time I do anything until this is really fixed.

    Thread Starter iwriteblogs

    (@iwriteblogs)

    I knew if this was really an issue, others would have posted about it! ??

    My bookmark for phpMyAdmin was pointing to a different instance on my dev environment, so while the db and tables were named the same, the plugin settings were different. Glad I finally figured that out!

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