wp-admin redirect to wrong url

no .htaccess in any location
windows hosting

never used WordFence to change the logon url, I can’t find an option to do that.

I see some plugins that say they can do that, and I though about trying to use one to change the URL to what I think it should be, but decided against it for now

I have been able to reproduce the issue,
Install wordpress in a directory ?.com/test
then change the root folder of the website and the url in wordpress to ?.com

site still works but the /wp-admin folder still redirects to the old site.

if you install wordpress in the root to start with then the /wp-admin redirect works just fine.

I am unable to reproduce the issue as described. Perhaps something in the server configuration, or a cache?

Are you using any sort of caching plugin, or do you see a “Clear/Purge Cache” button in your Dashboard or admin bar? You mentioned a WordFence cache file earlier. If so, would you please try clearing the cache?

Note: You do not need to install a caching plugin at this point just to clear a cache you don’t have. If you don’t have a caching plugin or a way to clear a server-level cache, just say so. ??

I have cleared the cache, no effect.
I have disabled all plugins and find the issue persists.

Who are you hosted with, and have you contacted them for assistance with this yet? They may have better log access.

it is hosted with godaddy and they do not have any more information, or any clue at all.

but I will try again

Is it GoDaddy Managed WordPress hosting, or just their standard hosting product?

standard hosting

Can you give me an idea of how I can check the contents of the WP_Rewrite rules?

2 hours and 3 escalations and GD confirms that no only can they not find anything outside of wordpress that would cause the redirect, but on the hosting I have there is not even an option to provide that kind of redirect.

the more I look at it the more it feels like the permalink style redirect within wordpress that is causing this.

Broken
https://www.airecanada.com/wp-admin

Working
https://www.airecanada.com/wp-admin/index.php

it’s a folder level redirect I just can’t figure out where it is coded

There isn’t anything like that in WordPress, unless you’ve directly modified core files or added it to a .htaccess file.

At this point, I recommend hiring someone to take a closer look at your whole setup.

Please try https://jobs.wordpress.net/ or https://directory.codepoet.com/ and do not accept any hire offers posted to these forums.

A url like
https://www.airecanada.com/2014/03/07/remembering-lucy/

Does not really exist as a folder and files on the web server.

The web server must be handling this either as
1) a proactive redirect to index.php that knows how to respond for the supplied query string.
2) a reactive redirect via a custom 404 error page.
Because I know the 404 on this server I know that is not happening for me.

The https://www.airecanada.com/wp-admin folder does exist.
Typically this would mean that the web server would respond with the defalut document (index.php in this case)

What I do see is that the result differs between https://www.airecanada.com/wp-admin and https://www.airecanada.com/wp-admin/index.php

This suggests to me a proactive redirect, that you tell me is not part of wordpress and GD tells me can’t be part of the web server.

What I am looking for now is someone who can tell me how wp-admin/index.php gets redirected to https://www.airecanada.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.airecanada.com%2Fblogs%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1
for unauthenticated users.

I am not looking at hiring anyone to look at this.

Ok, I personally don’t have time to dig for that answer for free, but you can look through the code at https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/tags/4.2.1/src/wp-admin

We followed up on Twitter. Looks like this is specifically related to Wordfence being run on Windows. Per their docs, Windows isn’t fully supported. ^Jesse

Wordfence system requirements

Thanks for jumping in, GoDaddy!