login Error

Is your WordPress install set up the way we describe here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=19925

?

I had the same error on a fresh WP 1.5 installalation taken out of the CVS right today (January 7th).

I installed WP locally under https://localhost/wordpress15. I also changed the table prefix to be “wp15” instead of “wp”. install.php finishes successfully, but when trying to to login I get the following error:

https://localhost/wp-login.php?redirect_to=%2Fwordpress15%2Fwp-admin%2F
404 File not found

Of course the address should be
https://localhost/wordpress15/wp-login.php?redirect=…

I traced it down to the following:
1. After install the option siteurl in table wp15_options is set correctly to “https://localhost/wordpress15”
2. However, after wp-login.php is called, this has changed to “http:”.

Oh, exactly the same problem I have, and wrote about in another post earlier. Anyway I change the siteurl (wordpress admin page or phpmyadmin) it changes back to “http:” when I try to login. Have tried with the two last betas with same problem.

A temporary solution is to comment out the following lines right at the top of wp-login:

// If someone has moved WordPress let’s try to detect it
if ( isset( $_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’] ) )
$_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] = str_replace( $_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’], ”, $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] );

if ( dirname(‘https://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) != get_settings(‘siteurl’) )
update_option(‘siteurl’, dirname(‘https://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] . $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]) );

Commenting out is done by adding /* before and */ after the lines like this:

/*
… The code form above
*/

Tracing futher it all comes down to this two lines:

if ( isset( $_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’] ) )
$_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] = str_replace( $_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’], ”, $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] );

Since PATH_INFO and PHP_SELF have the same value on my machine (wordpress15/wp-login.php), the str_replace function simply replaces the whole PHP_SELF with an empty string.

I’m sure this isn’t desired. I was trying to figure out, what this code is instead supposed to do, but since there is no documentation on the PATH_INFO parameter on php.net, I still don’t know.

Thanks Gerd,
saved me some work (as my PHP-skills are kinda rusty).

Still strange that the loginproblems keep on occuring. Untill now I’m still using a modified login.php from early 2004 that someone posted at that time, because the login that comes with all the nightlies (and 1.2.2) keep giving me troubles.

Moxie, if I recall correctly, someone rewrote the login.php again recently too. If it’s solid, then I’m sure it will get incorporated into the 1.5 final release.

I’m sure it will, but even the official login.php for 1.2.2 never worked for me ;).