Hi, I’m having the same problem, so far the steps in this post haven’t addresses the problem for me. This is on a fresh default install.
One thing I’ve noted that I didn’t see mentioned in this thread is that the problem seems to be related to the “/” in the redirect url being encoded into ” %2F ” — Everything works fine and I can login if after the first try and refresh I replace the ” %2F ” instances with a “/” in my address bar. Like so:
before –> wp-login.php?redirect_to=%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-admin%2Foptions.php
After –> wp-login.php?redirect_to=/wordpress/wp-admin/options.php
That will load up the admin panels fine, although if I click a link it returns to the login page (because the url uses the %2F again). If instead of clicking I drag the link to the address bar or copy and paste it than I can navigate around the admin areas. Can’t do anything besides that as the form elements (POST buttons) mix the url up again if any changes are applied.
The problem works this way in both Firefox and IE.
This is my first couple hours trying to explore wordpress… haven’t made it very far because of this problem.
Can someone confirm that the symptom works the same way for them? Just try logging in and replace the %2F’s with /’s in the resulting url.
Any ideas on how to work around this… force unencoded slashes from the server or something (not at all my area of knowledge…)
Hope this helps narrow the problem down!
