Can Not Login to wp-login.php

My site Lottoboom.it is hosted with 1and1 as well and I can reconfirm that I have the same issue as well.

I did a simple fix that is working for me for right now. Take a copy of your wp-login.php file, change the name (again — a COPY) and within it change every reference to wp-login.php to whatever you name the copy to. The CSS won’t load when you use this page, but you can indeed login on the 1and1 servers. They are blocking/redirecting wp-login.php by file name so simply giving it a new, random name seems to work.

Note that you cannot do this with mod_rewrite or htaccess alone.

hope this helps people.

Found this also at 1and1 — and the message seems a tad rude to me.

https://status-1and1.com/#Incident

“We’re experiencing an issue affecting less than 0.5% of the 1&1 customer base.
The affected users are unable to access their WordPress Admin-Login.”

WordPress is that little of their base? I doubt it

mannnn that makes me nervous messing with that i ALWAYS screw it up worse lol

It’s a temporary fix — I’ll yank down the copied page later, but it does get me in and able to do what I need to do.

Agreed, messing with the base code is not fun. It is not a plugin issue, that i can confirm too. I have several WordPress sites on 1and1.

I just called 1&1 (10:15 p.m. on 12/30/13) and reported the issue as well. The man I spoke to wouldn’t tell me much and said there wasn’t anything he could do to fix the issue with my site specifically but that they were already working on the issue. I asked how soon he thought it might be fixed and he implied that the issue should be fixed in the next few hours or so.

He mentioned that they had an issue earlier today with WordPress sites going down and that they fixed that issue about an hour ago. He implied that this issue was connected to that one and that it is the only thing that they are still working on fixing. He did seem to be quite aware of the issue and explained to me what other customers were experiencing (not being able to access wp-login.php or wp-admin.php files).

Obviously, this guy isn’t working on the issue himself, so I’d take this with a grain of salt, but I’d expect this problem to be fixed in the next 8 hours… hopefully sooner rather than later.

my all wp sites have some issue and all are hosted by 1and1. They were all right yesterday. I had ticket 1and1 this morning but nothing i got from them. Really angry now… and the login pages are still not working.

I have solved the problem for me anyway.
I am not an expert and do not know if this is bad to do…I only know that it worked for me…do it at your own risk.

1and1 appears to have the file wp-admin.php on an 301 redirect.

DO THIS: download via FTP “wp-admin.php” and rename it to something different (like wp-admin22.php)then modify the files contents by searching for and changing all references in that file from “wp-admin.php” to the new mame of the file. re-uload it to your root of WP and hit that file with your browser and I think you will have access…..I did!!

FOLLOWUP:

I have found that after logging in with this method, so long as you do not log out…you have access to your control panel by just going to the sites regular url. Another words you can delete the file you uploaded.

I’m so glad you guys have created this forum. I have been searching the last few hours to find out what was going on, and this finally appeared in my google search “Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to 127.0.0.1 and wordpress”

Thank you guys for creating the ticket too. Now I can explain to my customers as well as my employer what’s happening.

Hopefully this will be working in the morning.

So we’re all hoping 1&1 will resolve this tomorrow? I wish 1&1 would have put the word out sooner.

I’m having the same issue with all of my WP sites hosted with 1and1.

I was able to get logged in for now by doing two things:

Copy then rename the wp-login.php file to something like adminlogin.php

Then edit the new file (adminlogin.php) on about line 841 where the form does a post to wp-login.php and change it to: <form name="loginform" id="loginform" action="<?php echo esc_url( site_url( 'adminlogin.php', 'login_post' ) ); ?>" method="post">

Hope that helps till 1and1 gets their ish together.

my wp login pages are working now. 1and1 emailed back to me about they were fixing the problem last night but didn’t explain what caused this issue.

I can log in now but I can’t post anything. I get this error at the top of the post page: Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /homepages/20/d302522570/htdocs/wordpress/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 494

I can’t replicate your error boohah on my sites. I’m back up and have removed my workaround.

I get the same error on both my WP sites. Everything worked fine Sunday before all this trouble with 1&1. I didn’t bother changing anything yesterday after I saw this post, figuring it would sort itself out. I disabled all plugins and reverted back to the default theme with no luck. Looks like I’ll be on the phone with support this afternoon.