anthonycampbell

I’ve been having exactly the same problem for about a week now. I had WP working for about 18 months previously without major problems.Then suddently I could no longer log in.

I’ve tried all the above without any improvement, including downloading WP again and remaking the password directly with phpmyadmin. Eventually in despair I deleted the whole database; oddly, the old material was still there! But still no login.

I’m feeling pretty fed up with WP at the moment.

I use Firefox and Mozilla on Linux. I have indeed deleted cookies.

I have deleted the database several times but I can still see the original blog posts, plus some others which have appeared following attempts to reinstall. These were partially successful but when I tried to log in I got a message saying I needed to upgrade my database. (Perhaps because of a couple of error messages.)

Present position is that I set up a new blog on the WP host. I will gradually transfer at least the more important material and will provide a link to the old blog as well, assuming other people can see it (can you?) – https://www.acampbell.org.uk/blog.

I wish I understood what was happening. I suspect something may have changed on the server although t he admin people deny this.

I thought that might be it. Unfortunately I can now no longer log in!

While I was still logged in earlier I set the password but it doesn’t seem to work.

I have never managed to get the Send Password feature to work.

When this happened once before I went into the database and changed the password there, but I don’t think that is what needs doing now.

Thanks for this. But HOW do I get WP to produce this code?

In the meantime I had a look at Permalinks. I found I had customized this a long time ago according to the docs, but I reverted to the default and the archives etc are now coming up!

However there is an odd problem with logging in to administer the blog. When I am doing this on Firefox with my desktop I get a Site Admin prompt and this takes me into the admin page without asking for a password. I can then write, edit etc without difficulty.

If I use a different browser or the same browser on a different computer I get a “Login” request and then I cannot log in at all. I tried changing the passoword using the method above but this does not help.

Thanks for this. In the meantime I had a look at Permalinks. I found I had customized this a long time ago according to the docs, but I reverted to the default and the archives etc are now coming up!

However there is an odd problem with logging in to administer the blog. When I am doing this on Firefox with my desktop I get a Site Admin prompt and this takes me into the admin page without asking for a password. I can then write, edit etc without difficulty.

If I use a different browser or the same browser on a different computer I get a “Login” request and then I cannot log in at all. I tried changing the passoword using the method above but this does not help.

No.

A couple of people have suggested I need .htaccess.
Is that correct, and what should it contain?

I tried changing Options to https://www.accampbell.uklinux.net (thus cutting out the referral for my domain name) but the same thing happens. I think the links to the archive is wrong in some way but I don’t know how this has happened or what to do about it.

Thanks for replies. I’ve now discovered that all my archives and in fact everything apart from the first page of my blog has disappeared, so evidently it is indeed my ISP which is at the root of this. I will contact them today. If they have lost everything I will change my ISP.