brilliant.. now I did a workaround with following entry in the function.php
if($_GET[‘action’]===’rp’ && strpos($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’],’wp-login.php’)) {
$key = isset( $_GET[‘key’] ) ? $_GET[‘key’] : ”;
$login = isset( $_GET[‘login’] ) ? $_GET[‘login’] : ”;
wp_redirect( site_url( ‘/login/?action=rp’ ) . ‘&key=’ . $key . ‘&login=’ . $login );
exit;
}