Broken login

  • Hi,

    I was trying to direct wordpress to point to https://www.mysite.com instead of https://www.mysite.com/wp and somewhere along the lines I broke the login page.

    I was following the directions from here https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Login_Trouble forum page to try and resolve the issue but to no avail.

    The situation currently is this… when I try use the https://www.mysite.com/wp/wp-login.php the page doesn’t look normal..its as if there is an html page without css. When I enter my information and hit log in button I get the following:

    Not Found

    The requested URL /wp-login.php was not found on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    …..

    When I look for the /wp-login.php file via cpanel I can find it in the wp directory and I never made any changes to it.

    I do have a recent backup of the site, but am unsure of how to restore it from the .tar.gz file I have.

    Any suggestions?

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  • Is your WordPress install in mysite.com, or mysite.com/wp?

    It sounds like what you need to do is open cPanel and go to Databases -> phpMyAdmin, then click the “+” by your WordPress database, click on the “options” table (or “wp_options” if you use a prefix).

    Edit the entries for the option_name siteurl and home entries so they both are correct for where your site is installed.

    That should fix it.

    Thread Starter thottbubble

    (@thottbubble)

    Thanks for the reply,

    I did correct the login issue by restoring from a recent backup. There is a lesson in there somewhere ??

    As for the initial reason for my problem—

    My wordpress installation was not initially set up in the root folder on my server and I had changed hosts recently so I had to monkey around a bit but eventually found some solutions here at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_Wordpress. The solution for my issue was corrected by following the Moving Directories on Your Existing Server section which is about a 1/3 of the way down the page.

    Hope this helps someone else.

    10/4

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