Login Loop

  • I was “successful” at installing WordPress, but the Step 3 page of the installation was blank (except for “Step 3”)…
    The database was created and the blog is visible. I am able to create/edit users using phpMyAdmin, but my login just loops…
    I’m not sure what is going on – any ideas?

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  • Have you tried closing the browser, and clearing the cookies ?
    What OS / browser are you using ?

    Thread Starter savvy

    (@savvy)

    I’ve tried using different browsers, closing them, clearing cache, uninstall/reinstall WP… all end up with the same result.
    I get a Step 3 and that page’s body is blank. According to the documentation, the only screen left in the install process is a page that give you a random-generated password for admin.
    I then used phpMyAdmin to change the password in the wp_users table. I then went to /wordpress/ to confirm it was even loaded. When I click “login”, it doesn’t do anything. I then clicked “register” and created a normal user. On the last page of the registration process, I’m presented w/ a button to login… again nothing happpens. I confirmed that my new normal user was added to the wp_users table.
    There must be something wrong with /wordpress/wp-login.php
    Good thing I’m commited to getting WordPress running, or this would be enough to drive me to MoveableType or Blogger. I’m familar w/ PHP, but not the WP system so I have no idea where the problem could be.
    Please tell me this is a common problem.

    Can you get into irc ?
    Freenode #wordpress

    Thread Starter savvy

    (@savvy)

    Sorry, never used IRC before… Never found a need and nobody explained the benefits.
    I started to look at the wp-login.php code and may have found my issue… There is a for loop to set variable names listed in the $wpvarstorest. I outputed the value of each variable and all are blank. The next code section performs a switch($action), which is not set so nothing happens.

    Using #wordpress on irc means you can chat to people who know a lot about php and the wordpress code.
    People have found it to be a quicker route to fixing problems.

    from what i’ve seen and experienced, it seems like this “login loop” is a recurring issue that MANY people are experiencing, including myself.
    so other than completely blowing away the installation and doing a clean install, is there any way to fix this besides clearing cookies & turning off firewalls/zonealarm?
    i’ve tried playing around with the wp-users table and changing the ip address/web address/etc, but that seems to have no effect whatsoever. anybody have more ideas on this?

    Thread Starter savvy

    (@savvy)

    Sounds to me like WordPress is not ready (aka useless) if there are login issues. How can this be getting so much hype when there seems to be a major usability issue overlooked? How are people even able to hype it up if you can’t log in to use it?

    ugh, i finally got it working:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/3/7091
    followed every single step and it worked like a charm. it may have been an id10t error on my part because i noticed the new hash i generated was totally different from the hash in wp_users. not sure if hash changes everytime, if the hash in wp_users was ‘corrupted’ somehow, or if i just changed my password and didn’t remember it. oh well, seems to work fine now….. crossing fingers for the long term

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