Cannot Login After Upgrade to Multisite on Fresh Install of 3.0

Try clearing your cookies, then go to the /wp-admin/ page in the browser. See if you can log in that way.

I pressed ctrl F5 and then tried your suggestion. No dice.

Here is what my .htaccess file looks like:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Not sure if that is the problem or not. Just stabbing in the dark.

Go in and manually kill your cookies (crtl-f5 doesn’t always clean them entirely).

Got a different browser to log in with?

alternatively, send someone the login info to see if they can login from a different machine/location/browser.

Ok, tried to log in with a different browser (Internet Explorer) and I was actually able to log in! So, this must be an issue with the cache…but not sure because I cleared my cache.

This is the URL I keep getting to force my log in:

https://ridalhigh.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fridalhigh.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

Works fine in my IE browser, but nothing doin’ in my Firefox.

I did an automatic install using Godaddy’s auto install feature. The domain is aliased to another domain. I previously had done the install of 3.0 the old fashioned way, but had the same issue with not being able to log in. Figured it was something I was doing wrong.

Any other ideas?

Just because I know we dealt with this in mu, but the cache-clearing did help…

open up the wp-config.php file. Look at all the nonces & salts. make them all letters & numbers, changing any ^%$*%&^$*%^#:<“,/,./’; like that.

Flush the cache AND the cookies in Firefox.

Firefox cookies are … sticky, for lack of a better term. Sometimes they need to be routed out with fire.

Follow the directions in here for deleting cookies: https://mozilla.gunnars.net/firefox_help_firefox_cookie_tutorial.html

Thanks everyone (gratias tibi ago). The site works, but it just seems to be a caching error as you all pointed out. I will definitely keep an eye on this issue.

@andrea_r change them to what? Any random letter or number I choose! How exciting! (Don’t worry, I will wait for your response first.)

Anything ??

Go to https://api.www.ads-software.com/secret-key/1.1/ and it can randomly generate you new ones (though as Andrea says, you should avoid ‘special’ characters – Your browser may not like them for some reason).

Yeah, I still can’t access the site using Firefox. But it works with IE very well and the person I built the site for (my fiancee – a fellow teacher) is using it with no problem! LOL!

I’m afraid to make any changes because I have had nothing but problems with that site. I did recently change the domain from an old server to a new one, so I was thinking it could be a DNS thing.

@ipstenu and @andrea_r – I will try out your suggestions on some sandbox options and get back to you guys on what happens. It does seem that this is a caching problem, nothing more. At least, I can live with that for the time being!

If it’s caching like that, then it’s the browser, which … argh. Firefox has been ganking me around with stuff like that too :/ What version of FireFox are you on?

Yeah, just random letters and numbers.

Edit away, live on the edge. ??