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When i navigate to /wp-admin/ i am redirected to wp-login.php with the wp-admin URL in the redirect_to parameter. Like this:

http://www.domain.com/wp-admin ... goes to ... http://www.domain.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

If i just navigate to /wp-login.php/ i get an endless redirect loop.

Things i've tried:

  • Removing the .htaccess file in the root
  • Renaming the /wp-content/plugins/ folder (to check if any plugins are messing things up)
  • Renaming all cookie keys in wp-config.php
  • Changing permissions of the wp-login.php file to 755

Those are solutions i've found through other forums. I haven't had any success with either of them.

Basically what happened is a few months ago i was editing the site theme, and everything was working then. I haven't logged in until today, and now that i tried logging in i was met by this error.

Any other ideas?

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  • have you logged in? if you have, then have you checked your server's disk space? Commented May 30, 2013 at 13:52
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    You don't mention having swapped to the default theme, like leaving only twentytwelve inside the /themes/ folder. Commented May 30, 2013 at 13:54
  • I just tried renaming the theme folder, it made no difference for the login behaviour. It just made the frontend completely blank, which was expected. Any other ideas? Commented May 31, 2013 at 6:39

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Try reinstalling WordPress by replacing all the core files. Make sure you don't touch the /wp-content/ folder (and/or back it up). Perhaps something goofy has happened to one of the core files.

Edit:

Try checking permissions on wp-login.php - should be 644.

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  • Nope, that didn't help. :( For the record, here is the url to the website: nordicbench.se/om-nordic-bench Commented May 31, 2013 at 16:06
  • Try refreshing permalinks? Settings -> Permalinks. Then try again. Commented May 31, 2013 at 16:09
  • updated answer. see if that helps? Commented May 31, 2013 at 16:18
  • I tried refreshing permalinks between every change, that didn't help. But i did solve it, and it was indeed related to the wp-login.php file, although i am not sure what exactly was wrong with it. What happened is i cloned the entire site down locally and tried to login, then i got a 404 for the wp-login.php file (i didn't get that before). So i checked and the file wasn't there. Then i checked the server, and the file was there. So i tried downloading it, but that didn't work (didn't have permissions!??). ... Commented Jun 1, 2013 at 17:43
  • ... Weird. So i just renamed the file, then uploaded a fresh copy of it, and now it works. The thing is, i've never touched the wp-login.php file before, so i don't know what initially changed the permissions of it. I did however change it to 755 (which turns out was wrong, but whatever) myself while trying to fix it. Commented Jun 1, 2013 at 17:43

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