endless redirect loop when trying to access admin system

  • We’ve had a stable blog running for several months now. Yesterday attempts to access the admin system began failing, returning endless redirect loop messages in Firefox. Looking at the process through the TamperData plugin I’m seeing it bouncing with 302 status codes between wp-login.php and wp-admin/ anytime I try to hit wp-admin.

    Other pertinent bits:

    • The front end of the blog, all the public content, works fine, it’s only the admin side which is effected
    • The site is not using .htaccess redirects and the site url setting matches the blog url setting.
    • Nothing on the server itself has changed and other WP sites hosted on the same server work just fine.

    The other redirect problem related posts I’m seeing talk about conflicts between the site and blog url or problems where the admin side works but not the front end.

    Any suggestions on where I should be looking for the source of this?

    Thanks.

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  • COMMUNAL SOURCE OF PROBLEM: Plugins.
    COMMUNAL SOLUTION: Make them inactive one by one, and by trial and error it should resolve itself.

    Here’s how I did it: Go into wp-content/plugins and create new folder called “disabled”. Drag plugin folders into the “disabled” folder one by one(thus changing the file structure), and refresh the login page each time. For me it was WordPress Tweaks, but it seems it was different for everyone. There are many threads out there like this one, please spread the word.

    This started happening to me after I installed WordPress Tweaks 1.8. More specifically, I was unable to access /wp-admin/ while still being able to access individual pages I’d bookmarked (such as plugins.php and post-new.php).

    Since that was the case, I believe I’ve narrowed down the incompatibility issue with WordPress Tweaks 1.8 (YMMV) to the Disable the Dashboard option. I’d turned this on when I began requiring registration to leave a comment, and turning it off again made /wp-admin/ accessible.

    (I only found this thread when I looked for the error I was getting in Firefox, so let me add the Safari equivalent so search engines can find this later: “Too many redirects occurred trying to open “https://www.example.com/wp-admin/”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page.”)

    This is really weird. I was editing one of my posts when suddenly, I could no longer access my site (Redirect Loop problem). After restarting my computer same thing happened. I could no longer access the admin panel either. What I did is delete the Redirection Plugin using my ftp access. It worked.

    What do you think happened?

    I deleted the Redirection Plugin for my site as well. Now I don’t have any way to easily create redirects. Oh well. I guess it’s better than my site being down.

    Thank a ton, Dunechaser…
    you saved my day.
    I too had enabled that hide dashboard tweak and since been bugged by redirect loop.

    -JP

    Hi guys,

    I’m having the same problem, yet I’ve deactivated all my plugins and still get the endless redirect loop.

    It occurs while I’m moving a WP blog within a site (https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site)–in this case, I’m helping a friend move his installation from a subdirectory to the root.

    What else should I be checking if not the plugins?

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