Can’t log in after upgrade from 2.5.1 to 2.6

Rewrite wp-login.php by this one – after you should be able to log in ??

Sorry DFF, that fix doesn’t work for my installation.

I submitted a Track ticket/bug about this.

Trac Ticket 7322

i had the same problem of not being able to login after the upgrade. there wasn’t an error message and the images weren’t working for login.php. i deleted all of my files and it worked. maybe there’s some leftover file causing a problem or maybe an .htaccess problem. oh well.

Thanks to all! I came with problems, and saw the note about clearing the cookies. That worked! Thanks for answering before I asked ??

I really find it weird that clearing the cookies alone does the trick.

I have 3 blogs at one site, i.e …/blog/ , …/otherblog/ etc. After installing 2.6 all blogs “forgot” admin password.
I tryed to login and get “password is incorerect”, I have reseted password, login and change it back to my old one. But it forgots password again soon and should reset it agan.
This problem happens for all 3 blogs.

dolemite
Worked for me, maybe it’s gonna work for someone, if not, it’s a shame, I wanted to help ??

I updated a few minutes ago and I had the same issue. My setup has a redirect to https:// for the wp-login and I noticed that the loginform action points to https://mysite.url

Looking through the source code I solved the issue with an easy hack. In file wp-login.php line 447 change from:
<form name="loginform" id="loginform" action="<?php echo site_url('wp-login.php', 'login_post') ?>" method="post">

to:

<form name="loginform" id="loginform" action="wp-login.php" method="post">

That’s all. Now I can login as always ??

I’m having a similar, but different problem. I also have just upgraded from 2.5.1 to 2.6. Occassionally, but not always, when I type in my user id & password, I get the password screen again, with the user id in the first field (i.e. the form has remembered it) and a blank password field.

There is no “incorrect password” message (the red box that shows at the top when your fingers slip – I know it well), just the empty login screen again. Happens with admin and other users.

I’ve tried deleting cookies, clearing the cache, using a different browser, resetting the password (emergency.php) and requesting a password reset through the GUI. None of these works.

Eventually, when I try logging in again, with the same user id and password, it works; it lets me in.

This has happened twice now. Just as I was getting ready to remove some plugins (via FTP), I thought I’d try one more time, and that time it let me in.

The ONLY thing I did the second time was delete cookies and clear cache.

Whadayathink? Anybody else seen this? Is it worth reporting this as a bug?

Cheers

I’ve tried all of these solutions multiple times and it won’t let me in. I get the login page again, no errors, with username filled in and password blank. I’m going back to 2.5. What a pain.

I dug a bit deeper and found this solution, which worked!
https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/7322

If you have wp in a subfolder and have not updated your wp-config file, this will help.

The upgrade instructions tell you NOT to delete your wp-config file, so mine was many, many versions ago old. It had no secret key lines at all. So I just updated the wp-config-sample file from 2.6 with my blog-specific info, changed it to wp-config and it worked.

Those updgrade instruction needs updating . . .

What a relief!

This didn’t work for me – I think because I updated the wp-config file prior to upgrading… I don’t remember what version of WP it was but it didn’t have any secret keys. I thought adding them before the install would be better… apparently not. I’ve done everything stated above, but no luck.

I’m experiencing this problem as well, and I’ve deleted cookies, updated the wp-config file (as described at https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/7322), tried the wp-login file from 2.5.1 and tried multiple browsers. Any body have any other ideas?

BTW, is there a way to mark this not resolved?