I have a website running multisite using a subdirectory setup. I have just tried updating my site to 4.7.2 and the update goes through and no errors happen during the installation, but then after the install is finished I am redirected to /wp-admin/network/about.php?updated which returns a 404 page. So then I try to go back to /wp-admin/ and I get a redirect loop error.
I have looked through at least 40 different articles, forums, and websites about WordPress multisite wp-admin redirect loop issues. I have tried everything I can possibly find to fix this issue, but nothing has worked. The main site works perfectly fine, but wp-admin is completely unaccessible.
Here are the things I have tried so far:
- I tried clearing my cache and cookies multiple times, and the site is not using any caching plugins
- I renamed my plugins folder to plugins.deactivate Just to be extra thorough I also updated active_plugins field in the wp_options table to a:0:{}
- I tried removing multisite definitions from my wp-config.php file, but when that had no effect I put them back
- I confirmed my .htaccess file matches the one listed here for 3.5+ multisite – https://codex.wordpress.org/Multisite_Network_Administration#.htaccess_and_Mod_Rewrite
- I also tried switching it to the old version, just in case, but that did nothing so I switched it back.
- I found a forum saying that they fixed the issue by commenting out a redirect at the bottom of /wp-admin/network/admin.php so I tried that but it did nothing so I uncommented it back to normal.
- I found another forum saying you need to define cookie paths in wp-config.php. So I had tried that by adding the code below to my wp-config.php, but it didn’t work either so I removed it.
Cookie path code I tried:
define('ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH', '/');
define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');
define('COOKIEPATH', '');
define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '');
Here is my .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
Here is my wp-config.php file:
<?php
/**
* The base configuration for WordPress
*
* The wp-config.php creation script uses this file during the
* installation. You don't have to use the web site, you can
* copy this file to "wp-config.php" and fill in the values.
*
* This file contains the following configurations:
*
* * MySQL settings
* * Secret keys
* * Database table prefix
* * ABSPATH
*
* @link https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php
*
* @package WordPress
*/
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'DBNAME');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'DBUNAME');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'DBPASS');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'DBHOST');
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
/**#@+
* Authentication Unique Keys and Salts.
*
* Change these to different unique phrases!
* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service}
* You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again.
*
* @since 2.6.0
*/
define('AUTH_KEY', 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX');
define('AUTH_SALT', 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX');
define('NONCE_SALT', 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX');
/**
* Other customizations.
*/
define('FS_METHOD','direct');define('FS_CHMOD_DIR',0777);define('FS_CHMOD_FILE',0666);
define('WP_TEMP_DIR',dirname(__FILE__).'/wp-content/uploads');
/**
* Turn off automatic updates since these are managed upstream.
*/
define('AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true);
/**#@-*/
/**
* WordPress Database Table prefix.
*
* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each
* a unique prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
*/
$table_prefix = 'XXXXXX';
/**
* For developers: WordPress debugging mode.
*
* Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development.
* It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG
* in their development environments.
*
* For information on other constants that can be used for debugging,
* visit the Codex.
*
* @link https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress
*/
define('WP_DEBUG', false);
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
define('MULTISITE', true);
define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);
define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/');
define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);
/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');
/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');
